Women's basketball beats Lakehead twice
By Michal Tellos
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Editor
February 3, 2010
Head coach Chantal Vallee’s women’s Lancers basketball team continued their OUA domination last weekend with two at-home wins over the Lakehead Thunderwolves, with a 68-61 win on Friday, and a 61-60 win on Saturday.
 The women still sit atop the OUA standings, with a 15-1 record, and they are ranked third in Canada.
In both games, the Lancers came out with guns blazing, as they had dominating first quarters in terms of scoring.
However, they also allowed Lakehead to creep back in each second and third quarter as well, and this inconsistency is something that Vallee would like to work on.
“It’s up and down. We might have a slow start but a great second quarter. The last few games have been great starts but a slow third quarter or slow second quarter. It’s hard,” she said, adding that sometimes the team gets away from what it does well.
“We’ve taken a good lead in the past two games going into the half,” she said.
“Those are great leads. We obviously have a strong enough team and we should coast from there, but we let them come back to us. We have to work on that,” she added.>>
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Men's basketball splits weekend at home against Lakehead
By Michal Tellos
News
Editor
February 3, 2010
The men’s Lancers basketball team split their weekend at home against the Lakehead Thunderwolves, losing in overtime 89-87 on Friday, but blowing them out 87-65 on Saturday.
 Both games were in front of a packed and rowdy St. Denis Centre crowd, and the two teams were highly physical and competitive.
“They’re a great basketball team and when you get two good teams together they’re going to compete and play hard,” said head coach Chris Oliver.
The difference between the two games was, according to Oliver, consistent defensive play.
“At the end of the day, [Friday] night we just didn’t get the stops when we needed them. It was an offensive game. [Saturday] I thought we did a much better job making it a defensive game,” he said, adding that both games were offensively strong, and that the team just needs to focus on defensive fundamentals.
Oliver also noted that the second outing probably wasn’t Lakehead’s best effort, while the Lancers kept up their offensive pressure but maintained defensive play as well. >>
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Men's hockey splits key weekend on the road
By Tanya Quaglia
Lance Writer
February 3, 2010
In the final stretch of the season, the Windsor Lancers Men’s Hockey team earned a much-needed win over the UOIT Ridgebacks but fell to the Guelph Gryphons this past weekend.
On Friday night, the Lancers dominated the Ridgebacks and won 6-1. Brett Oliphant was sensational scoring two goals and adding a pair of assists for a four point night. Goalie Jim Watt made 24 saves for the win.
After a scoreless first period, Scott Gillis put the Lancers on the board with a power-play goal a little less than halfway through the second period. Defenseman Kyle Lang earned the assist on the goal.
Windsor kept the 1-0 lead for the remainder of the period. Things heated up between the two teams as the second period came to a close and a handful of roughing penalties were handed out to both the Lancers and the Ridgebacks.
Mark Thorburn opened the scoring in the third period off passes from Brett Vandehogen and Oliphant. Two minutes later Oliphant further extended Windsor’s lead with his first goal of the night.
Kyle Tront and Oliphant each scored an unassisted goal a minute apart to give the Lancers the 5-0 lead.
Oliphant earned his second assist of the night when Thorburn found the back of the net halfway through the final period, extending Windsor’s lead to 6-1.
Unfortunately, the Lancers could not find a way to dominate the Guelph Gryphons on Saturday, another team also in the hunt for a playoff position. >>
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