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This is the first year the women's squad was given a separate coach. giving it its own identity. Talk about the possible tournarnent turned to a coaching position, and the mtuishistory, The 30-year-old Cam- bridge native. who is also a UW alumni. got the call about the job last summer from Watedoo athletic din-r- lor Indy McCrae. who was trying to set a golf invitation, al al Cambridge Golf and Country Club. When- Munch is the tournament co-tard) tor and assistant profession- Munch knew McCrac from the golfer's time on the university's field hockey Ceam. Unlike the chain-mailed swashbuckler. Munch will be armed with nothing more than 13 years of gulf knowl. edge to give her team as she heads into her first tourna- ment since being named the head coach of the University of Waterloo women's golf team last month. ( :arla Munch might want to give herself the nickname Xena. What else would you call the newest female Warrior. whose job is to lead her band of charges through a knock and drag-im-out battle on the links this weekend? M "She Wanted to get a BY Bu DOUGH Fm the ( Arrrrurle Munch considers the coaching job a progression in her golfing career. Starting relatively late at age 17. she started off a few rounds at Ptaslinch Golf Club - where she drove the food and bev- erage cart - before playing a year on the Spalding junior tour. From there she moved lo playing Ontario Ladies Amateur events. Two years ago, Munch passed her playing ability test to earn her professional sta- tus and was hired at Cam- bridge. "For me. it's something exciting. it's a new beginning for them and something new for me, so we can have that together and we'll we what we can do with it. I'd love for it l0 grow at each school. If we can get a bigger team at Waterloo. and I know other schools are getting coaches dedicated just to the girls, then the bigger the whole division will get. That means more recognition for the women. It's nice to be a part ofic" "She got me up to date on what they wanted to do and where they wanted to go with it because it is fairly new. They are just getting up and going with the women's divi- sion. Each school is rmally gutting it women's division with the golf and it's getting bigger and bigger, women's professional involved to kind of promote it." Munch said. Continuedon ”an Arufth-ey aid jlist that against the Rebels in last "I'll take the work ethic over the talent any day ifl have the choice," said Husain. "We're like a Honda Civic - a quick little car that just keeps going and going" And that's the same thing he likes about his soccer senior boys soccer duh - they're not flashy but they' get the job done. ey had the fancy uni- Tiii?:',' and the perfect record. And if you believed the hype, the Eastwood Rebels were the favourites to repeat as the WCSSAA soccer champs. But in a contest between higlrend sports cars and reliable rides. Bluevalc Knights head coach Ike Husain would choose dependability. But that's when the Braves" Ryan Benesch took over the game. With a goal and two assists, Benesch was having a solid game. Even worse. one of the goals came when head coach Corey Mailman pulled goaltender Ryan Dryhurgh for an extra attacker with less than 12 seconds to go in the period. Peterborough quickly got the ball back and it bounced the length of the floor of the Waterloo Mento- rial Recreation Complex into the empty net just as the buyer sounded. That gave the lakers the momentum in the second. as they took a 9-8 lead into the third. Knights outhustle Rebels for title the first, all to all it do last minute. 1 Braves used an emu tional Iribute In for mu captain James 'Ilmrnley tu hu1ld a big first-period lead in Friday's home upen- er against Peterborough. 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"I-Curr?"?"- 7 It was sweet revenge for the Knights, whose lone loss was a 4-1 defeat to the Rebels earlier this season. The Rebels also knocked the Knights out in the quartedi- Benesch - who is thinking of asking the city for a job after spending so much time at the Rec Complex since he joined the Waterloo Siskins last winter -- who also had a hat-trick against the high- powered Whitby Warriors www.vwwerterloo.com That improved the Braves' record to 2-1-1 this season as they try to estab- lish themselves as a league power. Sunday in a 7-7 tie. CUCK HERE - In I W Pita-Id (In -hslkst- Wow-loo Continued on page 30 Continued on page 29