| February, 2000. Volume 42, No. 18 | Sports |
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Cougars come away empty handed
The University of Alberta Pandas needed only five goals this past weekend to take the Canada West women's hockey championship back to Edmonton.
With a 2-1 overtime shoot-out victory over the University of Manitoba Bisons in the semi-final and a 3-2 gold medal win over the University of Calgary Dinos the Pandas have proven once again that they will be a force to contend with at the CIAU championships in Montreal.
Pandas win women's hockey crown
Don't tell the Bisons that third place doesn't mean anything.
With the red ensign of Manitoba behind them, the Manitoba Bisons women's hockey team found the courage to come from behind and defeat the Regina Cougars on their home turf.
Memo to Bill -- get some defencemen
Lee Rusnak and Blair Ledingham, the two most experienced Cougar Men's Hockey defencemen, are gone after this weekend.
The fact that two defencemen stayed this long is even more amazing, but more on that later.
This leaves Ryan Hodgins as the only player with more than one year on the blueline. Rod Eberle, a third year forward just converted this semester, and Mike Gamble, Murray Sidebottom and Ryan Hleck, all rookies, none frightening offensively, are the only ones left on defence.
Four Cougars say good-bye to hockey
It was a bittersweet weekend for four men's hockey players who won't be playing any more home games.
They won their last game, but lost their fair share of the ones before. But neither Lee Rusnak, Blair Ledingham, Darren Martens or Darren Houghton expressed any regret.
Cougars play well but not well enough
A trip to Calgary didn't produce the results the Cougars wanted this past weekend as they met the University of Calgary Dinos on Friday and Saturday night. Although they played well on Friday, they didn't on Saturday which slightly disappointed head coach James Hillis.
"Both games, we didn't play particularly well," Hillis said. "We played better on Friday but we still didn't do what we had to do. Calgary was a team that I thought we were good enough to get at least a game from, and we didn't."
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