Cougars, Huskies to meet again in conference final
The University of Regina Cougars are to play host to the University of Saskatchewan Huskies in Friday ’s Canada West women’s basketball championship game.
Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. at the Centre for Kinesiology, Health and Sport.
The Cougars advanced to the final by sweeping the visiting University of Calgary Dinos in a bestof-three Canada West semifinal.
The clincher was Friday’s 66-60 victory. The Cougars’ top performers were Charlotte Kot (who had 14 points), Kyanna Giles (12 points, six rebounds), Avery Pearce (nine points), Christina McCusker (eight points) and Michaela Kleisinger (a game-high 11 rebounds).
Kleisinger also put the Cougars ahead to stay when she hit a threepointer with slightly more than two minutes left in the game.
The Huskies earned a berth in the championship game Saturday by defeating the Trinity Western University Spartans 72-48 in Saskatoon. The Huskies won a bestof-three semifinal 2-1.
The Cougars and Huskies are to meet for the third consecutive year in the conference final.
Under head coach Dave Taylor, the U of R has reached nine conference championship games in a 12-season span.
Taylor’s Cougars are the host team for the U Sports championship tournament, an eight-team event that is to run March 8-11 at the CKHS.
The Cougars’ Shane Patmore won the men’s long jump at the Canada West track and field championships in Winnipeg. He locked up the gold medal with a personalbest jump of 7.71 metres.
The U of R earned two medals in the men’s 1,000 metres. Alex Eiswerth was second followed by teammate Greg Hetterley.
The Cougars’ other medallists were Reagan Fedak (silver, female weight throw) and Michaela Allen ( bronze, women’s 6,000 m).
Three Cougars wrestlers won medals at the U Sports championships in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.
Lucas Hoffert (65 kilograms) and Waylon Decoteau (100 kg) earned silver medals in the men’s division. Decoteau repeated as a national silver medallist.
The Cougars’ Inga Hammer earned a bronze medal in the women’s 72-kg division.
The U of R won a relay medal for the first time at the U Sports swimming championships.
Brian Palaschuk, Noah Choboter, Jong Hoon Lee and Etienne Paquin-Foisy combined for a bronzemedal effort in the men’s 4x200-m relay. They posted a school-record time of seven minutes 23.74 seconds.
The Cougars women’s volleyball team was swept by the host UBC Thunderbirds in a best-of-three Canada West quarter-final.
UBC won 16-25, 25-23, 25-18, 2514 on Friday and 25-17, 25-14, 25-14 on Saturday.