News Updates http://www.universitysport.ca/e/news.xml eeee http://www.cisport.ca/e/story_detail.cfm?ID=14801 Thank you for visiting the CIS website. Please note that we have recently launched our new website and web address: www.cis-sic.ca. Make sure you change your bookmark from www.universitysport.ca to www.cis-sic.ca. Thank you for your patience over the past few weeks as we were going through this transition period! http://www.cisport.ca/e/story_detail.cfm?ID=14792 Thank you for visiting the CIS website. Please note that we have recently launched our new website and web address: www.cis-sic.ca. Make sure you change your bookmark from www.universitysport.ca to www.cis-sic.ca. Thank you for your patience over the past few weeks as we were going through this transition period! http://www.cisport.ca/e/story_detail.cfm?ID=14791 Thank you for visiting the CIS website. Please note that we have recently launched our new website and web address: www.cis-sic.ca. Make sure you change your bookmark from www.universitysport.ca to www.cis-sic.ca. Thank you for your patience over the past few weeks as we were going through this transition period! http://www.cisport.ca/e/story_detail.cfm?ID=14790 Thank you for visiting the CIS website. Please note that we have recently launched our new website and web address: www.cis-sic.ca. Make sure you change your bookmark from www.universitysport.ca to www.cis-sic.ca. Thank you for your patience over the past few weeks as we were going through this transition period! http://www.cisport.ca/e/story_detail.cfm?ID=14793 OTTAWA (CIS) - The reigning Vanier Cup champion Laval Rouge et Or are back to a familiar place as they return to the top of the UFRC - CIS football rankings after spending two weeks at No. 2. http://www.cisport.ca/e/story_detail.cfm?ID=14785 OTTAWA (CIS) - Reigning national champion Alberta, UBC and UNB top the first CIS rankings of the 2009-10 season in men's volleyball, women's volleyball and men's hockey, respectively. http://www.cisport.ca/e/story_detail.cfm?ID=14784 OTTAWA (CIS) - For the second time in three years, the University of New Brunswick Varsity Reds open the season at No. 1 in the CIS men's hockey media poll. http://www.cisport.ca/e/story_detail.cfm?ID=14788 LONDON, Ont. - Brienne Stairs added to her impressive goal total this season, scoring two goals in a 2-0 shutout over the Western Mustangs on Oct. 19 at TD Waterhouse Stadium. http://www.cisport.ca/e/story_detail.cfm?ID=14783 TORONTO - After an even game through three quarters, the Saskatchewan Huskies used a strong fourth quarter and a late 7-0 run to pull away from the Calgary Dinos for a 79-65 win in the championship final of the Darcel Wright Memorial Classic at Ryerson University on Sunday. http://www.cisport.ca/e/story_detail.cfm?ID=14782 SHERBROOKE - Avec un total de trois touchés, le receveur Alexandre Poirier a été la bougie d'allumage du Vert & Or dans une importante victoire de 34 à 15 contre les Carabins de l'Université de Montréal, samedi après-midi au stade de l'Université de Sherbrooke. http://www.cisport.ca/e/story_detail.cfm?ID=14773 VANCOUVER - First-year striker Janine Frazao filled the net with four goals for the second consecutive night as she led the UBC Thunderbirds to a 6-0 victory over the Calgary Dinos on Saturday evening at Thunderbird Park. http://www.cisport.ca/e/story_detail.cfm?ID=14781 KINGSTON, Ont. - The No. 4 Queens Gaels (7-0) remained perfect, holding on for a thrilling 27-26 victory over the No. 5 Western Mustangs (5-2) at Richardson Stadium on Saturday in CIS football action. http://www.cisport.ca/e/story_detail.cfm?ID=14772 KINGSTON, Ont. - The Guelph Gryphons swept the mens and womens races at the Queens Invitational held Saturday on Fort Henry Hill site of the upcoming 2009 CIS Cross Country Championship. Host Queens finished second in the mens event and third in the womens. http://www.cisport.ca/e/story_detail.cfm?ID=14778 VANCOUVER - The UBC Thunderbird (7-2-0) forwards came out red hot in Saturday's game against the visiting Alberta Pandas (2-5-2) at Thunderbird Park, converting four chances in the opening 14 minutes to send UBC to a 5-1 victory. http://www.cisport.ca/e/story_detail.cfm?ID=14775 ANTIGONISH, N.S. - A pair of touchdown runs by fourth-year quarterback Jesse Andrew s (Pickering, Ont.) led the Bishop's Gaiters to a 33-12 victory over the No. 6-ranked St. Francis Xavier X-Men in CIS football action today. The crowd of 1,700 at Oland Stadium saw the Gaiters take the Bigg Bowl for the first time and remain in the QUFL playoff race. Andrews threw for the Gaiters' two other touchdowns, and finished with 128 rushing yards and 148 passing yards. http://www.cisport.ca/e/story_detail.cfm?ID=14774 MONTREAL - Sophomore running back Devon Jones of St. Albert, Alta., scored a pair of touchdowns and kicker Justin Palardy, a senior from Truro, N.S., contributed 13 points as No.8-ranked Saint Mary's outlasted McGill 39-23 before a Homecoming crowd of 1,110 at Molson Stadium. http://www.cisport.ca/e/story_detail.cfm?ID=14780 GUELPH, Ont. - Dillon Heap claimed the Laurier, OUA and CIS records for punt returns in a season as the Wilfrid Laurier Go lden Hawks (5-2) defeated the Guelph Gryphons (3-4) in a come from behind victory at Alumni Stadium in front of 1,300 fans. http://www.cisport.ca/e/story_detail.cfm?ID=14779 OTTAWA (CIS / SSN) - The seventh episode of CIS Touchdown, CIS' weekly football on-line magazine. Click here to view the show. http://www.cisport.ca/e/story_detail.cfm?ID=14514 VANCOUVER - The no. 8 UBC Thunderbirds (7-3-0) exacted a small amount of revenge Friday night at Thunderbird Park with a 1-0 victory over no. 1 ranked and previously undefeated Trinity Western (6-1-3), evening the season series at 1-1 after TWU won 2-1 two weeks ago in Langley. http://www.cisport.ca/e/story_detail.cfm?ID=14762 Montréal - Dans le cadre de sa soirée inaugurale, l'équipe de hockey féminin des Carabins de l'Université de Montréal a marqué l'histoire avec éclat en remportant une brillante victoire de 4 à 1 sur les Stingers de l'Université Concordia devant 1562 bruyants spectateurs réunis à l'aréna du CEPSUM. http://www.cisport.ca/e/story_detail.cfm?ID=14763 CALGARY - Former Dino Vanessa Frederick pitched a 16-save shutout in her return to the Olympic Oval while Chelsea Purcell notched the hat trick as the Saskatchewan Huskies improved to 3-0 on the young season with a 5-0 victory over the University of Calgary, spoiling the Dinos' home opener in the first CIS game played in Calgary since February 2002. http://www.cisport.ca/e/story_detail.cfm?ID=14770 VANCOUVER - The UBC Thunderbirds (3-2-4) came into Friday's match against the visiting Lethbridge Pronghorns (0-9-0) needing a win to keep pace in the race for the post season and thanks to a big second half, the T-Birds convincingly achieved their task. http://www.cisport.ca/e/story_detail.cfm?ID=14764 OTTAWA - The Carleton University Ravens, defending CIS National Champions, won their 25th consecutive game at the House-Laughton Hoops Classic, 104-51, over the Bishop's University Gaiters. http://www.cisport.ca/e/story_detail.cfm?ID=14771 CALGARY - The University of Alberta Pandas opened a brand new chapter in the university-level Battle of Alberta Friday afternoon in their first-ever CIS rugby match against the Calgary Dinos, dominating from start to finish en route to a 71-0 victory. http://www.cisport.ca/e/story_detail.cfm?ID=14769 LONDON, Ont. - Rookie netminder Anthony Grieco (Brampton, ON) was the key component in Western's 3-0 win over the York Lions, earning a shutout on Oct. 16 at Thompson Arena. http://www.cisport.ca/e/story_detail.cfm?ID=14768 HAMILTON, Ont. - OUA women's rugby playoff action begins on Saturday, Oct. 17 with four quarter-final matches, each scheduled for 1 p.m. http://www.cisport.ca/e/story_detail.cfm?ID=14767 EDMONTON - In their first game of the season, the 0-1-0 Bisons started out slowly against the 3-0-0 Pandas and couldn't quite their special teams going, despite three opportunities that included a two-man advantage. http://www.cisport.ca/e/story_detail.cfm?ID=14765 OTTAWA (CIS) - Long-time Western Ontario coach Bob Vigars has been appointed head coach of the Canadian team for the 17th FISU world university cross country championships to be hosted by Queen's University and the City of Kingston on April 11, 2010. http://www.cisport.ca/e/story_detail.cfm?ID=14757 OTTAWA (CIS) - A pair of fifth-year quarterbacks looking to rewrite the CIS and OUA record books go head-to-head on national television on Saturday when the No. 5-ranked Western Ontario Mustangs (5-1) visit the No. 4-Queen's Gaels (6-0) at Kingston's Richardson Stadium. http://www.cisport.ca/e/story_detail.cfm?ID=14760