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Straight-set loss dashes Queen's campaign for gold

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The men’s volleyball team’s shot at a national championship ended on Saturday night when they fell to the first-seeded Trinity Western Spartans 3-0 in front of 1,994 fans at the ARC. “Hurts a little bit right now,” captain Niko Rukavina said. “Lost to a better team. They just played better than us. “Our...

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Laval to compete in national final after win over Manitoba

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The Laval Rouge et Or were just waiting for their best player to show up on Saturday night. The Quebec conference champions looked like they were in trouble after dropping the first set of their men’s volleyball national semifinal 25-15 to the second-seeded Manitoba Bisons. But three-time Quebec Player...

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Home crowd troubles Golden Bears veteran

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Taylor Hunt felt the floor shaking beneath him on Friday night. The heavily-tattooed Alberta Golden Bears outside hitter stepped up to serve with his team down 24-23 in the first set of the CIS men’s volleyball quarter-final against the Queen’s Gaels. With 1,806 fans chanting “Taylor sucks,” he served...

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Mustangs lose to Dinos in consolation semifinal

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Western Mustangs head coach Jim Sage said he saw it coming. Less than 24 hours after losing a five-set heartbreaker to the Manitoba Bisons in a men’s volleyball national quarter-final, the Mustangs fell in straight sets to the Calgary Dinos in Saturday afternoon’s consolation semifinal. “We were just...

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Defending champs prepare for tonight's semifinal against Gaels

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The ARC set an attendance record when 1,802 fans watched the men’s volleyball team win a CIS national quarter-final on Friday night. But the crowd might be even bigger for tonight’s semifinal against the Trinity Western Spartans. “You guys must be loving this,” Spartans head coach Ben Josephson said....

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Trinity Western sweeps Dalhousie in predictable quarter-final

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The top-ranked Trinity Western Spartans only needed 70 minutes to win their opening match of the national men’s volleyball tournament on Friday night. They dispatched the eight-seeded Dalhousie Tigers in straight sets — 25-14, 25-22, 25-17 — to set up a semifinal against the host Queen’s Gaels on...

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Queen's records first quarter-final win at national championship

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In front of the largest crowd the ARC has ever seen, the men’s volleyball team won its quarter-final match against the Alberta Golden Bears in four sets to record Queen’s first-ever victory at the national championship. In all of the Gaels’ previous championship appearances, they’ve lost in the quarter-final...

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Bisons best Western in close quarter-final

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The Western Mustangs came close to sealing the first upset of the national men’s volleyball championship on Friday, but the University of Manitoba Bisons beat them in quarter-final play at the ARC. After the teams split the first four sets, the Bisons won the fifth set in a 19-17 tiebreak to set up...

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Women's volleyball makes early exit at nationals

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The women’s volleyball team’s national medal hopes are over. The Gaels fell in straight sets to the second-seeded University of British Columbia Thunderbirds in the CIS quarter-final on Friday afternoon in Hamilton. Queen’s came to its first-ever national tournament on an eight-game winning streak...

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Laval ousts Calgary in first game of national championships

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One day after missing out on the CIS MVP award, three-time Quebec Player of the Year Karl De Grandpré dominated the opening game of the men’s volleyball national championship at the ARC, leading the third-seeded Laval Rouge et Or to a 3-1 win over the sixth-seeded Calgary Dinos. De Grandpré, who led...

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QTV settles webcast deal for national championship

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After almost a month of confusion, Queen’s TV has been given the go-ahead to produce webcasts for the upcoming national volleyball championship at Queen’s. The student-run media outlet will produce video for all 11 games at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport men’s volleyball championship at the ARC...

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Webcast deal reached

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After almost a month of confusion, Queen’s TV has been given the go-ahead to produce webcasts for the upcoming national volleyball championship at Queen’s. The student-run media outlet will produce video for all 11 games at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport men’s volleyball championship at the ARC...

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Webcast deal reached

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After almost a month of confusion, Queen’s TV has been given the go-ahead to produce webcasts for the upcoming national volleyball championship at Queen’s. The student-run media outlet will produce video for all 11 games at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport men’s volleyball championship at the ARC...

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Athletics signs streaming deal with QTV

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Queen’s Athletics will webcast home games online for the first time this Saturday — but it won’t use the network that other schools use. Twelve of the 19 schools in the OUA and 19 of the 52 schools in the CIS use Streaming Sports Network Canada. Those schools produce their own video and send a feed...

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Gaels claim second straight national title

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The women’s soccer team is the first women’s team in Queen’s history to win back-to-back national titles. The Gaels won the CIS championship in penalty kicks against the Montreal Carabins in front of a crowd of over 400 in Montreal. The teams ended regulation time tied 0-0. After a scoreless overtime,...

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Women's soccer advances to national championship

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The women’s soccer team will compete in its second consecutive CIS Championship after a penalty kick win over the Ottawa Gee-Gees in the national semifinal. Midfielder Chantal McFetridge scored the winning goal for the Gaels to edge the Gee-Gees 3-2. The Gaels beat the Gee-Gees twice during the regular...

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Gaels two wins from national gold

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It’s been an eventful week for the women’s soccer team. Last weekend, the Gaels clinched their third-straight berth at the national tournament with a 3-0 OUA semifinal win over the McMaster Marauders on Saturday and then beat the Wilfred Laurier Golden Hawks to win the OUA title on Sunday. On Thursday,...

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Former pros play university sports

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Hayley Wickenheiser spent three years overseas on a highly-publicized stint in professional European men’s leagues. Now, she’s playing Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) hockey with the Calgary Dinos. The forward has won four Olympic gold medals and six world championships for the Canadian women’s...

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Sports – CIS Hockey Sunday

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The 2011 CIS Women’s Hockey Championships are over. The Gaels clinched the bronze medal in the dying minutes of the third period to win the final game of a season that has been called “miraculous” and a “Cinderella story.” The Queen’s Journal has been proud to have...

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