Rowers strike gold
Morgan Jarvis and Katya Herman of the Queen’s rowing team came away with gold medals at the 25th annual Canadian Indoor Rowing Championships in Mississauga Sunday. Jarvis took gold in the senior men’s lightweight division. Herman won the senior lightweight women’s division with a time of seven minutes and 27 seconds, which was enough to earn her a spot in the World Indoor Rowing Championships in Boston on Feb. 22. Nick Pratt earned silver in the senior men’s lightweight division and Rob Thom picked up a bronze in the U23 men’s heavyweight division. Ryan Meyers picked up a silver medal in the U23 men’s division Rares Crisan earned bronze and Rob Ballard finished sixth. All athletes competed on Concept II rowing ergometers.
Men’s curling set for OUA championships
The men’s curling team advanced to the OUA championships with a strong performance at last weekend’s OUA Crossover Tournament in St. Catharines. They finished 3-0 in the opening sectional competition, but went 1-4 in crossover play to set up a tiebreaker with the University of Toronto Varsity Blues, who also finished 4-4. With a berth in the OUA championships on the line, the Gaels came through with a 5-2 win. The women’s team was less successful, though, going 2-6 at the tournament and failing to earn a berth in the championships. Skip Lisa Farnell was named an OUA first-team all-star for the second consecutive year. The men will travel to Peterborough next weekend for the championships.
Fencers qualify for OUA championships
All six of Queen’s fencing teams qualified for the OUA fencing championships at the OUA East Qualifiers in Peterborough last weekend. The women’s épée, men’s épée, men’s sabre and women’s foil teams all came away with silver medals from the team relay events. The men’s foil and women’s sabre teams also did well enough to advance to the OUA championships. Several of Queen’s fencers qualified for the championships individually as well, with Stacey McDonald and Mary-Clair Yelovich earning berths in women’s sabre, Laura Bartha and Syndey Houston- Goudge qualifying in women’s épée and Ashley Chin, Michelle Lo and Nancy Chua all advancing in women’s foil. On the men’s side, Anton Oentoro and Jack Chen qualified in foil, Christian Petrozza and Dean Loubert advanced in épée and Scott Bowman, Martin Busse and Jamie MacDonald qualified in sabre. The championships will take place Feb. 15 and 16 in Toronto.
Track and field picks up silver medals
The track and field team earned three silver medals at the McGill Team Challenge in Montreal last weekend. Leslie Sexton finished second in the 3,000 metres to claim the Gaels’ only individual medal. Michael Prime, Gordon Frenke, Adrian Heller and Michael Nishiyama brought home a silver medal in the men’s 4X400 relay. Veronica Catry, Angela King, Jan Stirling and Jennifer Barrow earned silver in the women’s 4X200 relay.
— Andrew Bucholtz
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