Late night celebration

At 1 a.m. on Wednesday morning, Morgan McHaffie scored in the sixth overtime period to end the opening game of the OUA championship round against the Guelph Gryphons 2-1 for the Gaels.

The game lasted a total of 167 minutes, which qualifies it for the longest collegiate game in North American history. The win was also the fourth straight overtime victory for Queen’s. The Gryphons nearly had a 1-0 win in hand during regulation until Gaels forward Becky Conroy scored an equalizer with five seconds remaining.

The Gaels are now one win away from an OUA banner in the best of three series. Game two will be in Kingston at the Memorial Centre on Friday.

— Lauri Kytömaa

Queen’s wrestler competes at CIS Championships

The CIS wrestling championships were held in Thunder Bay this past weekend. Queen’s 59kg wrestler, Kellie Heney, represented the Gaels with a sixth place finish at the tournament.

Heney went 1-3 over the weekend action. She fell 4-0 in her first match to Marlen Figueroa from the University of Alberta. In her next game she lost 9-5 against Aisslyn Torfason from the University of Lakehead.

In her final match in pool competition she defeated Breanne Coady from Memorial University 7-0. Her final match was against Liz Sera from the University of Western Ontario where she fell 5-0.

— Lauri Kytömaa

Falling flat

The women’s volleyball season came to an end on Saturday, Feb. 19 as the team fell in the OUA quarterfinal against the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees in straight sets 25-23, 25-23, 25-20.

Queen’s outside hitter, Natalie Fisher, had 14 kills and eight digs for the Gaels. Natalie Gray and Katie Matthews also had productive games: Gray finished with eight kills and 11 digs while Matthews had eight kills. Despite starting the season 9-1, the women finished the season 12-7 before entering the playoffs. This is the second time since 2008-2009 that the team has been defeated in the quarterfinals.

— Lauri Kytömaa