Masters at McGill
Both the Gryphon men’s and women’s track and field teams placed first at the McGill Team Challenge over the weekend. As a team, the Gryphons won 27 medals and had 10 more athletes achieve CIS standard, qualifying them for the national championships in March. Rachel Cliff won gold in both the 1500m and 3000m races and multiple Gryphons achieved podium finishes in both distance races on the men’s and women’s sides. Check the scoreboard for full results.
Hockey talk
The Gryphon men scored early and often on Thursday evening, crushing the Brock Badgers 9-0. Thomas Kiriakou scored four points and Nathan Martine and Tim Priamo added three each for the surging Gryphons, who followed up Thursday’s performance with a 3-2 squeaker over Windsor on Saturday night. The Gryphons (11-10-4) received outstanding goaltending from Scott Van Bommel in both wins. On the women’s side, the Gryphons extended their win streak to four games with a 4-2 win over Waterloo on Saturday, only to have it snapped in a tight 2-1 loss to undefeated Laurier on Sunday afternoon.
Basketball blues
The 2009-10 season continues to be a struggle for the Gryphons basketball teams as both the men and women dropped a pair of games against McMaster and Brock last week. On Wednesday, despite a valiant effort and 25 points from Alex Russell, the women fell 70-63 to the Marauders, while the men dropped an 83-76 overtime heartbreaker to their Hamilton rivals. Saturday was no different as the Badger women overmatched the Gryphons 63-42, dropping the lady Gryphs to 2-14 on the season. On the men’s side, the Badgers and Gryphons (5-11) went right down to the bitter end with Brock edging Guelph 57-56 in a hard fought defensive affair. The Gryphon men have now lost seven games by five points or less.
Gryphons swim in Land of the Alps
Top Gryphon swimmers Andrew Ford and Bethany Flemington traveled to Zurich, Switzerland, with head coach Don Burton over the weekend to compete for the Ontario University Future Stars Tour Team. Competing against top swimmers from the United States and Europe, Ford captured bronze in the 200m IM, fourth in the 400m IM and sixth in the 200m backstroke. Meanwhile, Flemington placed fourth in the 100m backstroke, missing a third place finish by 1/100th of a second, and fourth in the 100m freestyle consolation final, good for tenth overall.