12 March 16, 2011 + Over the Edge For a Good Time Join the Rugby Club Women’s Rugby Club is always looking for new participants WOMEN’S RUGBY CLUB CONTRIBUTOR Ever wonder what the rugby club does besides throw raging parties? Play rugby of course, and a lot of it. Here’s a look at what the Women’s Rugby Club gets up to during the season. The women’s rugby team trains year round. In the fall before it gets too cold, we train two evenings a week alongside the Prince George women’s team the PG Vixens, working on mostly fitness and drills. We also host a tournament “Wolf pack”, at the end of September, which provides new recruits with their first opportunity to play. The weekend generally includes lots of good rugby, a beer garden and a social night. The women’s rugby club also gathers a team together for “Gobbler”, which is a thanksgiving weekend tournament in Abbotsford. We also do a day trip to Kamloops where we combine with the players from UBC-Okanagan to play a game of 15’s. Once it is too cold to play outside, the rugby team moves indoors to the Northern Sports Centre where we play co-ed touch “buggers”, a rugby like game once a week. We also usually play a few full contact games in the sports centre a few times during the winter. One of the highlights of our winter season is the annual game of snow rugby. This event is held every February at Kelly Road Secondary school, it is an absolute blast. Half- time includes the ceremonial half-time beer chug. As for playing other teams, it is difficult because we live in the North. When we can we like to organize games against the Edmonton and Kamloops teams. During the summer, there are lots of tournaments that we attend with the Vixens, all of which are completely optional as most of our players go home for the summer. These tournaments include ‘Rugbyfest’ in Edmonton, ‘Maggotfest’ in Missoula and ‘Stampede’ in Williams Lake. As for our parties being awesome, we have been fortunate enough to acquire a reputation of throwing good parties, which makes throwing other parties much more successful. It also helps that the rugby people ourselves, enjoy a good beer and party every now and then. Rugby is a great game that includes a great sense of team camaraderie, not to mention fun social events. | would encourage anyone who is interested to contact the teams; we are always looking for new members. For anyone interested in joining, contact the women’s rugby club at unbcwrfc@gmail.com or check out UNBC Rugby on Facebook. — a UNBC Rugby team in action Women's Basketball Team Brings Home Bronze T-Wolves beat VIU for third place at provincial championships BROCK CAMPBELL SPORTS EDITOR ONLINE SOURCE Christine Kennedy was recently nnamed to the BCCAA 2nd All Star Team The women’s basketball team has brought home some hardware from the BCCAA Provincial Championships which took place the weekend of March 3-5. After losing to the Capilano Blues (CAP) in the semi-finals, the T-Wolves upset number two ranked VIU Mariners in the consolation final. Albeit it’s not the loot they set out for, but their pleased to finish the season on a high note winning the bronze medal match. “We had to overcome a tough loss against CAP,” said T- Wolves point guard Jenn Knibbs in a post-game interview following UNBC’s consolation victory, “We wanted to come out positive and win what we looked at as our gold medal game, and most of all win our last game of the season for our seniors Christine Kennedy and Sarah Moxley.” Knibbs, a UNBC freshmen, led all scorers with fourteen points and took home player of the game honours in the T- Wolves 62-54 win over the Mariners. UNBC opened the game with a 12-1 lead; with Knibbs knocking down two three’s in a row. The deficit would prove to be too much for the Mariners, a team expected to reach the finals, as they struggled all game to come back from the eleven point margin to start the game. The closest the Mariners got was within two points early in the third quarter with the score at 30-28. But that was short lived as UNBC would go on a 10-0 run sparked by three’s from Kennedy and Jennifer Clyne and a couple of easy fast- break buckets. The T-Wolves would extend their lead to as much as fourteen, leading at the end of the third quarter at 50-36. In the fourth VIU made one last push drawing to within five at 57-52 with a minute left in the game, but two free throws by Kennedy sealed the win and the bronze medal for the T-Wolves. Erin Beckett, added twelve points for UNBC and in the final game of her illustrious career, Kennedy dished out eight assists along with nine points. Before falling to CAP in the semi-finals, UNBC won an exciting quarter-final matchup with conference rival Camosun Chargers. Both teams have a history of knocking one another out in close games, and this year UNBC exacted revenge for the disappointing 57-56 loss they suffered to Camosun in last year’s playoffs. The T-Wolves edged out the Chargers in a 65-62 nail-biter. Camosun led early up 22-17 after the first quarter, but a 24 point second quarter by the T-Wolves put UNBC ahead 41- 35 at halftime. UNBC extended their lead in the third after scoring six unanswered points. However, their twelve point lead would quickly vanish after UNBC got into foul trouble putting the Chargers on the line; which Camosun capitalized on going 7 for 8 from the charity stripe and closing the T-Wolves lead to 55-51. The Chargers would complete the comeback in the fourth after Camosun’s star forward and UNBC transfer Chelsea McMullen knocked down a jumper to put them up 59-58. However, the T-Wolves would regain the lead after Moxley’s nice spin move inside for a hoop put UNBC up 63-61. The Chargers had their chances late to tie or to take the lead but turned the ball over. Kennedy would put the game out of reach after dribbling down the clock then beating her check with a killer crossover finishing with a runner in the lane with fifteen seconds left in regulation, making the score 65-61. Leading scorers for the T-Wolves were Sarah Moxley with fourteen points, Mercedes Vankoughnett and Erin Beckett both finished with twelve. Kennedy, who had eight points and seven assists, following the game discussed her teams resilience down the stretch, “After losing to them last year the way we did, there was no way we were going to let them beat us again.” Unfortunately for the T-Wolves they couldn’t carry any momentum into the semi-finals against CAP, the eventual champions. UNBC, who had success in the regular season against the Blues beating them twice, struggled to generate any offence shooting 4 of 15 from behind the arc and going thirty-one percent from the field. The T-Wolves only trailed by seven at half down 32-25, but CAP would blow the game wide open in the third quarter scoring twenty-seven points to UNBC’s twelve. In the losing effort Kennedy, who was awarded a tournament all-star, scored seventeen points and Erin Beckett chipped in with twelve.