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Lancer Winter Sport Update

(the St. Denis Centre during the CIS Women's Basketball Championships.)

Women's Basketball If you've been living under a rock, then you probably don't know that the Lancer Women's Basketball team won the CIS Championships. Read the LancerMVBlog recap HERE.

Men's Basketball The Lancer Men's Basketball team made it to the OUA Wilson Cup, hosted by the Ryerson Rams. After drawing the defending national champions Carleton Ravins in the semi-finals, the Lancers  were sent to the bronze medal game against the McMaster Marauders to fight for the remaining seed in the CIS Men's Basketball Championship. The game went to the Marauders in a heartbreaking 93-89 overtime win over the Lancers. Conference award winners included:

Lien "Dedicated" Phillip: OUA West Player of the Year; OUA West First Team All-Star 

Enrico Diloreto - OUA West First Team All-Star

Josh Collins - OUA West Second Team All-Star

Women's Track & Field The Lancer Women's Track & Field team held third place after Day One, but finished in eighth place at the CIS Championships in Edmonton, Alberta. After claiming 4th at the Ontario Championships, the women combined for a total of 47 points to place 8th over the three day meet. Noteable performances included:

SILVER: Amelia DiChiara 60m hurdles;

BRONZE: Celine Freeman-Gibb, shotput; Jalicia Clarke, 60m dash;

4th: Emily Omahen, Emilie Halle, Nathana Griffiths, & Jalicia Clarke, 4x200m relay;

5th: Emilie Halle, Camille Wallace, Olivia Creary & Samantha Kellam, 4x400m relay; Sarah Swain, 60m hurdles

(the OUA Men's Track & Field Champions, the University of Windsor Lancers)

Men's Track & Field

After capturing their 15th OUA title in the last 16 seasons, the Lancer Men's team was hungry for the CIS Championship banner. The men made it to the podium for a 3rd place finish, but were unable to conquer the nation as York walked away with their first CIS men's title in 30 years. Top Lancer performers included:

GOLD: Paul La Marra, Taylor McArthur, Corey Bellemore & Alex Ullman, 4x800m relay (a CIS championship record no less); Branden Wilhelm, pentathlon;

SILVER: Branden Wilhelm, High Jump; Aaron Bowman, Matt McKeegan, Andre Wright, & Tyler Bellaire, 4x200m relay; Jesse Drennan, pentathlon

BRONZE: Alex Ullman, 1000m

Women's Hockey The Lancer Women's Hockey team bowed out of the OUA playoffs in a quarter-final loss to the Queen's Gaels (ranked 9th in the CIS). The ladies took it to overtime as the Lancers came back to even the score 2-2 with 5 minutes remaining in the third period. While the game looked like it would go to the visiting Lancers, the Gaels scored at 6:33 to seal the game for Queen's. For her efforts this season, Jenny MacKnight was awarded the first-ever Windsor Lancer women's hockey player OUA Player of the year and the first-ever Windsor Lancer women's hockey player to be named a first-team All Canadian.  Congratulations Jenny!

Men's Hockey The men's hockey team are headed to the CIS Championships after winning the 103rd Queen's Cup Final over the McGill Redman. Read the LancerMVBlog recap HERE.

The CIS Season is slowly winding down for the Lancers, best of luck to the Men's Hockey Team as they compete at the CIS Championships this week in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan!

(Tuesday, March 18th, 2014)

(photo source: Milana McNamee & Windsor Lancers)

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#BattleForBronzeBaby COMPLETE!

The Lancer Women's Basketball Team accomplished what only one other team has done: win the national championship 4 years in a row!

The Lancers had no doubt as they won the Bronze Baby Trophy in a convincing score of 71-45 over the Saint Mary's Huskies on Sunday evening at the St. Denis Centre. Tournament MVP Miah-Marie Langlois had 8 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists in her final game as a Lancer, while fellow tournament all-star and fifth-year Jessica Clemençon pitched in 19 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists. Clemençon was also awarded the R.W. Pugh Fair Play award, while Langlois takes home the MVP for an unprecedented three times (for both men and women).

The team's fourth consecutive national banner has been accomplished only by Laurentian, who won five straight titles from 1975-1979. Clemençon started Windsor's run with the first six points in the first several minutes of the game, while teammate Jocelyn LaRocque hit a three with 1:21 to go in the fourth to cap the game for the Lancers.

(Birthday Girl Anna Mullins cuts her share of the championship net.)

The road to the gold-medal game fappeared smooth for the Lancers as they beat both their quarter- and semi-final opponents by margins of 28 and 20 points respectively. The Lancers took down OUA bronze medalists Laurier Golden Hawks in the first round of the CIS Championships, now rebranded to the 2014 Arcelormittal Dofasco CIS Women's Basketball Final 8. After holding a 43-25 lead at halftime, the Lancers only let the Golden Hawks come within 13 to win the game 81-53.

The semi-final win over the University of Fraser Valley Cascades did not come as easily as the quarterfinal, as the Lancers trailed by one at halftime and only shot 19.4%. In the second half, the Windsor women upped their percentage to 34.1% and outrebounded Fraser Valley 51-43 to take the game 65-45.

Langlois ended the tournament with 58 points, only second to St. Mary's Huskies' Justine Colley with 65 points. Clemençon, LaRocque and Korissa Williams finished with 50, 30 and 29 points, respectively. The tournament was a wonderful showcase of not only the athletic talent here in Windsor, but the capacity of our athletics department to host larger-scale sport events. The St. Denis Centre and the vivacious crowd thanks to the loyal Party Army and Lancer fans were alive this past weekend and hopefully the Lancer Men's Volleyball Team can have their moment in the CIS spotlight in the upcoming future.

(photo sources: Edwin Tam and Anna Mullins)

(March 17th, 2014)