OTTAWA (CIS) – The seeding and schedule were announced on
Monday for the 40th Canadian Interuniversity Sport – Field
Hockey Canada women’s championship, which gets under way
later this week in Toronto.
The four-team tournament, hosted by the University of Toronto for
the second time in three years, kicks off on Thursday and concludes
Sunday with the gold-medal final at 3 p.m. All eight games from the
tourney will be webcast live on CIS-SIC.tv.
Competing for this season’s McCrae Cup will be the top-seeded
UBC Thunderbirds (Canada West champions), No. 2 Toronto Varsity
Blues (OUA champs), No. 3 Victoria Vikes (Canada West runners-up)
and No. 4 Guelph Gryphons (OUA silver medallists).
The T-Birds continued to rewrite the CIS field hockey record book a
year ago when they became the first program in history to capture
three straight McCrae Cups, thanks to a 4-1 gold-medal win over
tournament host Victoria. It marked a 15th national title for UBC
since the inaugural CIS championship in 1975, four more than UVic
and Toronto.
This season, UBC and Victoria finished with identical 5-1-2 marks
in the Canada West conference, where there are no playoffs and the
team with the best record at the end of league play is awarded the
banner. The T-Birds got the nod thanks to a better goal
differential.
In the OUA, Toronto is 14-0 overall entering the FHC-CIS
competition, including a 3-0 shutout against Guelph in the
conference final. The Gryphons, who are still looking for their
first CIS crown, are 11-3 overall, with all three losses coming at
the hands of the Varsity Blues.
All contenders will play each other once in the preliminary round
this week, with the top two finishers advancing to the final and
the bottom two teams battling for bronze. Thursday’s opening
day will see Victoria take on Guelph at 4:30 p.m. and UBC face
Toronto at 6:30 p.m.
NOTES: A complete championship preview will follow on Tuesday...
The 2014 CIS individual award winners and all-Canadian teams will
be announced on Wednesday.
SEEDING
1. UBC Thunderbirds (Canada West champions: 5-1-2 regular season
/ no playoffs in CW)
2. Toronto Varsity Blues (OUA champions: 12-0 regular season / 2-0
playoffs)
3. Victoria Vikes (Canada West runners-up: 5-1-2 regular season /
no playoffs in CW)
4. Guelph Gryphons (OUA silver medallists: 10-2 regular season /
1-1 playoffs)
CHAMPIONSHIP
SCHEDULE
Wednesday, Oct. 29
18:00 All-Canadian Awards Banquet (Marriott Bloor
Yorkville Hotel)
Thursday, Oct. 30
16:30 Game 1: Victoria vs. Guelph (www.CIS-SIC.tv)
18:30 Game 2: UBC vs. Toronto (www.CIS-SIC.tv)
Friday, Oct. 31
16:30 Game 3: Toronto vs. Guelph (www.CIS-SIC.tv)
18:30 Game 4: UBC vs. Victoria (www.CIS-SIC.tv)
Saturday, Nov. 1
13:00 Game 5: Toronto vs Victoria (www.CIS-SIC.tv)
15:00 Game 6: UBC vs. Guelph (www.CIS-SIC.tv)
Sunday, Nov. 2
13:00 Bronze medal (www.CIS-SIC.tv)
15:00 Championship final (www.CIS-SIC.tv)
About Canadian Interuniversity Sport
Canadian Interuniversity Sport is the national governing body of
university sport in Canada. Every year, over 11,500
student-athletes and 700 coaches from 56 universities and four
regional associations vie for 21 national championships in 12
different sports. CIS also provides high performance international
opportunities for Canadian student-athletes at Winter and Summer
Universiades, as well as numerous world university championships.
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