With wins on Saturday, UVic and York arrange a gold medal rematch
The rain had subsided however the wind had not, as gusts as excessive as 50 km/h had been whipping via the fields at UPEI campus. Saturday marked the final day of group stage hockey earlier than Sunday’s medal rounds. With two video games within the bag every, nothing was secured and each video games right this moment had vital implications.
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The primary match of the day featured coast towards coast. The Vancouver Island UVic Vikes vs the College of Prince Edward Island Panthers.
After UVic earned consecutive penalty corners, they had been lastly in a position to break via, securing the primary objective of the sport close to the tip of the primary quarter. Molly Harris injected the PC move and darted straight to the publish the place she completed off a Julia Boraston shot to get the Vikes on the board. Only some minutes later, firstly of the second quarter, UVic confirmed their PC prowess as soon as once more as this time it was U SPORTS participant of the 12 months, Libby Hogg with a straight bullet from the highest of the circle. Hogg confirmed off why she was the MVP this season as she was instrumental in all 4 of UVic’s penalty nook objectives this afternoon.
UPEI hunkered down for almost all of the sport, defending towards the pace and talent of UVic. The unit that we’ve seen all weekend lengthy present attacking potential consists of all-Canadian Kayla Batchilder, the Lawlor siters and Katie Grace Noye. Right this moment the Vikes had been simply an excessive amount of because the hosts couldn’t generate sufficient offense to get themselves a foothold on this recreation. GK Bria Matthews, who stood tall in yesterday’s match towards York, performed one other stunning recreation in web, however finally the Islanders from the west took this match and secured themselves a spot within the gold medal match tomorrow afternoon.
UVic’s goalkeeper, Anais Chace, stated that the staff introduced ‘Vikes hockey’ to the pitch this afternoon. “We related as a staff, we had been stick-to-stick and relied on our talent and relied on one another. The important thing to our success is we join on and off the sphere. We assist one another, we’re there for one another and we play properly collectively.”
UPEI and UVIC play their last group stage match on Saturday. Photographs/Yan Huckendubler.
Coming into this afternoon’s match with Dal, the York U Lions hadn’t discovered the again of the online. For a staff that stuffed the online in the course of the common season, they knew a key to their success could be cashing in on the primary objective of the sport. Certain sufficient, after some good strain and a penalty nook, Sabine Keon deflected a Katie Tye shot to get York on the board within the first quarter. It was wheels-up from then on out because the Lions continued to hem the Dalhousie Tigers in their very own finish for almost all of the sport.
Dalhousie’s all-Canadian duo of Sanne Meijer vanLoendersloot and Molly Doyle and second-year midfielder Abby Henn continued to impress as they’ve all weekend lengthy. However their quick-skills and attacking runs by no means discovered a lot momentum throughout right this moment’s match. It was all York, all day.
Wave after wave of York assault led by Avery Davis, Juliet Redelaar, Elise Piper, Gates McAllister and Kathryn Carlow descended on the Dal defenders. Redelaar added a second and third quarter marker and Jewel Lew smashed in a objective as properly. Tye bought her identify on the scoresheet, scoring a penalty stroke within the last minutes of the sport. York’s goalkeeper, Ella Ciesielski saved her web empty and has but to permit a objective in the course of the match.
The motion right this moment units up the medal rounds for Championship Sunday. UPEI and Dalhousie will play-off for bronze, a rematch of the Atlantic College Subject Hockey championship recreation. On Thursday, the groups performed to a dramatic 1-1 draw. UVic tops the pool and can face York College within the championship match, a rematch of final 12 months’s gold medal recreation. Their Thursday match was additionally a draw, establishing a compelling Sunday in Charlottetown. Watch the medal matches from the Subject Hockey Canada College Championships on the CBC Sports activities YouTube Channel.
York defeats Dal to shut out the group stage. Photographs/Yan Huckendubler.
