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Women Warriors earn first fleld hockey medal After falling behind 24), the University of British (Zolumbia Thunderbirds scored three unanswered goals on their way to a 3-2 victory over the Walcnoo Warriors to claim the 2001 CIS Women‘s Field Hockey Championship at Toronto's Lampon Stadium. asifitwasgoingtobe Watedoo's day. UBC pressed in the opening moments and at the 12-minute mark a diving save by Nttedoo goaltender Katie McNeil changed the game's momentum From the opening moments however, it looked In a span of three minutes, the Warriors capitalized on two straight penalty corner opportunities The first, in the 17th minute; landed on the sick of a wide-open Manon Doesborgh, who made no Then. at the 20-minute mark it was a defdy placed dedkxtionbyuiaMorton that vaultedWutedooahead2Ah However, from that point forward it was all UBC. The Warriors' tired legs couldn't muster the energy to stop the continuous UBC onslaught. Befbeethehatfwasouote T-Birds pulled to within one when as first team Ali. Canadian Mo O'Connor found the back of the net openingthe UBC noodgnm Midway through the sec- ond half UBC struck again when what looked like a T- Bird penalty comer miscue resulted in slow roller some- how dribbling between the legs of the Waniors' McNeil Laura Balakshin gm credit for thegoal. Then, with Just six minutes to go. Stephanie Smith notched the winner. McNeilmadeapairofgmat stops, only to have the third straight attempt on goal by Smith go past her to seal the 1%rriors'titte. TheWaniors’ silver medal tinishwastheirfirsreverpodi- thatifweptayedtsiellwe'dbein contention for a medal," said Waniors' head coach Sharon Cleelman, coaching her last game with the team. "0urgoalwastomakeit theNationalsandweknew Waterloo Warriors win first OUA soccer title terloo head coach Water Mackie said it was odd to be facing his old club, the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks, in Sunday's OUA soccer finals After completing a couple of training tours with club teams in England in the early 1980s, Mackie returned to Canada in time to power the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks to national champi- onship berths to finish out the decade. He had a lot of good mem- ories and good friends horn those Golden Hawks teams, including Mario Halapir who was a rookie on the squad in Mackie's senior year. So it was strange for Mackie to be facing his old teammate and his old team in the OUA soccer finals Not that he let sentimen- tality get it the way of his desire to finally beat the Hawks for the first time this And that's just what his young squad did, as they sur- prised the Golden Hawks in a 2-1 final to clinch the Watedoo Warriors' first-ever men's OUA soccer crown against the defending nation- al soccer champions The passionate Mackie, battling a cold and the emo- tions of the victory, said he tried to charge up his squad for one more game against their cross-town rivals after clinching a berth to the nationals finals the previous "This is a great result for "We won in dramatic fash- Br 3(1on (gr-madam; ion on Saturday," said Mackie. "It was an intense game, where we beat Iaurentian on penalty shots after almost losing it in legu- lation." The Western Mustangs won their second straight Naismith Classic basketball tournament with a 92-56 win over the Memorial University Sea Hawks. The Waterloo Warriors fin- ished sixth in their homecoming tournament. losing 73-70 in the fifth-place game. The turning point for the Warriors came in the semiti, nal contest against the lauremian Voyageurs. "We thought if we could get by Saturday, we could give the kids an opportunity to get to the nationals," said Madde. That opportunity came against a lamentian team the Warriors easily handled dur- ing regular season play when they built up their 7-3 record. good for second place by divi- sion-winning Laurier. But itwasiatougher route to 'rt go tht nationals in Halifax, being held this week- end, than the Warriors first thought. as the Voyageurs gave them all they could han- dleina5-4windecidedhom the penalty spot. Despite carrying the bar ance of play, the Warriors trailed twice in the contest, scoring with four minutes to go to even it up. Nothing was decided in the golden goal extra-time. which meant the game would have to be decided hom the Mustangs clinch second straight Naismith title penalty spot. "We just couldn't finish on Saturday." said Mackie. "We outplayed Laurentian from start to finish, put we just couldn't put them away." Going into penalty shots left the game up for grabs Fortunately for the Warriors the shootout broke their way. After clinching a berth to the national fmals, Mackie found it tough to refocus his club on taking on the Hawks. But the fact that the Warriors had already lost twice to the Hawks previous- ly, proved to be motivation enough. "We showed a lot of char acter and resiliency against lauremian." said Mackie. "We wanted to do the same against laurier. "We had a great year, but the two previous games against them we didn't reple- sent ourselves well." Mackie said he didn't want Laurier going to the nationals thinking they had the Warriors' number. "This game was about pride," said Mackie. "It was about proving to them (Lauder) that not only can we play with them, we can stay with them. " wasn't really concerned about thewin or theloss-- it was about the performance that day. bonus" The win also helped the Warriors avoid the top seed Sc Mary's, and laurier until later on in the upcoming "I think we were deserving of the win." said Mackie. was just a