Buses from McMaster to the game HAS BEEN CONFIRMED
Tickets will be sold at Compass Starting Tuesday all the way until Friday at 4PM.
- tickets will be sold only at the COMPASS centre in the student centre
...-tickets are 10 dollers for the bus there and back and your game ticket
-bus leaves at 11:30 on Sunday morning
----------> good time
---------> Chirping Western Ponies is a must
Regular Season game
14-8 Westerm
Playoffs Semi Final results
34-20 McMaster over Queens
Previous Game Report
November 6, 2010
HAMILTON, Ont. – The McMaster Marauders men’s rugby team dismantled the defending OUA champion Queen’s Gaels 34-20 in the OUA semifinal earlier today. The win avenges the 8-17 loss Mac suffered last season to the Gaels in the playoffs.
Marauder lead-scorer Andrew Ferguson (Mississauga, Ont.) led the Marauder charge with 11 points on a try and three conversions. Tyler Ardron (Lakefield, Ont.) had 10 points on two tries with the second solidifying McMaster's win in the dying minutes of the game. Michael Sheppard (Brampton, Ont.) and Davor Stojanov (Stoney Creek, Ont.) also added tries in the match, and Shawn Windsor (Stoney Creek, Ont.) contributed one a penalty goal.
Myles Dingwall (Ottawa) led Queens' scoring with 10 points on two tries.
McMaster will be looking for their fourth OUA Championship in six seasons as they head to Fletcher's Field next weekend, Sunday, November 14, to face the Western Mustangs in the OUA Championship game. The last time these two teams met in the conference final was in 2006 when the Marauders scored a try in the dying the minutes of the game to win 15-10.
Box Score:
http://www.athrec.mcmaster.c a/athl...mi-western.htm
23-6 Western over Brock
LONDON, Ont. – Tom Bridger (Victoria, B.C.) contributed six points off of three conversions as the Western Mustangs men’s rugby team defeated the Brock Badgers 21-6 in the OUA semi-final game on Nov. 6 at the UWO Rugby Fields.
Early in the first half, Mustangs Mike Talbot (Lucan, Ont.) broke past the Brock defense running in Western’s first try of the game. Bridger then contributed his first convert of the game, extending the Mustang lead to 7-0.
Soon after, Brock responded with a penalty goal by Samual Rimmer, making the score 7-3. Brock continued offensive pressure, by adding another 3 points from Rimmer's second penalty goal, the result of a defensive penalty on the Mustangs.
The Western defense stayed strong holding back the Badgers; Brock would not score again.
Offensive running by Western’s Mike Penczak (Brantford, Ont.) put the Mustangs in scoring position on the field. Rory Tomlinson (Allison, Ont.) was able to capitalize on the field position by battling through Brock defense for a try, extending the Mustang’s lead to 12-6. Bridger kicked his second conversion to end the half with a Mustang lead of 14-6.
The second half saw a battle of the defenses as both Western and Brock held strong.
Brock's Rimmer, missed a penalty goal early in the second half keeping the score 14-6.
Halfway through the second half, Western was finally able to break past Badgers defense, as Conor Trainor (Vancouver, B.C.) added another 5 points off his try. For the third consecutive time, Bridger kicked a complete conversion for a final score of 21-6.
“We all came together. Our forwards played strong and with skill and so did our backs. We played with our size and our skill today,” says Bridger.
Two players left the games with injuries. Talbot, suffered a fractured leg in the first and Badger Eric Inward left the game after a serious knee injury.
With this win the Mustangs will look to avenge last year’s OUA Championship loss, as play for the title next weekend.
“We’ve got be ready; the weather will be cold and probably rainy. The field will not be ideal, but we’ve been building up to this all season. We lost [OUA Championship] last year and we can’t let that happen again,” says Bridger.
The Mustangs will host the OUA Championships next weekend on Nov. 14 as they prepare to battle McMaster for the title.
