Toronto blows out Queen's, Carleton edges McMaster to advance to OUA Championship Final

KINGSTON, Ont. (November 25, 2016) - Toronto and Carleton will meet in the OUA Championship match on Sunday after winning their semifinal matches on Saturday afternoon in Kingston.

DAY 2
Toronto 18, Queen's 0
After a big win on Friday night to get to the OUA semifinal the Gaels were on the wrong end of a big score on Saturday afternoon. The 1st overall seeded Varsity Blues scored 18 unanswered goals to defeat the Gaels with an 18-0 shutout. Nine different Toronto athletes got their way onto the scoresheet with Euan Scoffield, Daniel Ugray and Mark Avdalovic each scoring three times.

Toronto scored three in the first, four in the second, six in the third and finished with another five in the fourth period for the win.

The Varsity Blues now will advance to the OUA Championship game on Sunday at 2:00pm where they will meet Carleton. For Queen's, they will get a chance at OUA Bronze when they take on McMaster Sunday at 12:40pm.

Carleton 5, McMaster 3
The Carleton Ravens held off a late McMaster attack to take a 5-3 victory and advance to the OUA Championship on Sunday against the Toronto Varsity Blues.

With the score 1-1 after the opening period, Rodrigo Rojas, Julien Allard and Mohamed Galal all scored for the Ravens to give them a 4-1 lead at the half. Things kept going the Ravens way as Dusan Boskovic scored his second of the game to make it 5-1 in the third. 

The Marauders were able to score on their next possession as Sam Forresster struck for McMaster. A goal at the 3:50 mark of the fourth period made it just a two goal game but the Ravens defended well and hung on for the victory.

Carleton will face off with Toronto for gold Sunday at 2:00 pm while McMaster will now play for bronze on Sunday at 12:40pm when they meet the host Queen's Gaels.

Western 16, Ottawa 6 (5th Place Game)
The Western Mustangs took a convincing 16-6 victory over the Ottawa Gee-Gees to close out their time at the OUA Championship with a 5th place finish.

The two teams were fairly even to start off the game as Western took leads of 1-0 and 2-1 but each time Ottawa responded to even the game in the early stages. After Ottawa went up 3-2 nearing the end of the first period, Western scored at 0:49 and 0:12 to take reclaim the lead.

The second half is where the Mustangs did most of their damage. After leading 6-4 heading into the second half, the Western offence exploded for 10 goals with Ottawa only able to muster a pair bringing the final score to 16-6 for Western. The Mustangs had eight different goal scorers on the day and were led by Jovan Latkovic who scored in all four periods.

DAY 1
Queen's 17, Ottawa 4
The Gaels opened up the 2016 OUA Championship at home against the Ottawa Gee-Gees and put on a show for the home fans at the ARC pool. Led by Alexander Cox-Twardowski, Queen's easily took down the Ottawa Gee-Gees with a 17-4 win. Cox-Twardowski scored three in the first, two in the second and added one in both the third and fourth to total seven goals in the game to lead all scorers.

Up 4-0 after the opening period the Gaels added three more in the second before Filip Matic was able to get Ottawa on the board down 7-1. From there it was too little too late for the Gee-Gees as the Gaels added another 10 before it was all said and done to win 17-4.

Robby Arundel also filled up the score sheet for the Gaels adding four markers of his own while the four Gee-Gees goals were split between Matic and Amar Jasarbasic.

The Gaels now advance to the OUA semifinal where they will take on the number one overall seed Toronto on Saturday at 1:50pm. For the Gee-Gees they will take on Western in the fifth place game at 5:20pm.

Western 5, McMaster 14
After holding just a 2-1 lead to open the game in the first period the Marauders exploded for nine straight goals in the second and third frames to take a commanding 11-1 lead. From there a four goal effort in the fourth period wasn't enough to get the Mustangs back in the game and McMaster took the win with a decisive 14-5 score.

The Marauders earned the victory with a balanced attack offensively, nine different scorers got themselves on the score sheet for McMaster who were led by a three goal effort from Colin Colterjohn.

Western had a two goal effort from Maksym Koval while Daniel Lilko drew a red card and disqualification in the fourth period.

With the win, McMaster now advances to the OUA semfinal where they will meet the Carleton Ravens at 3:00pm on Saturday afternoon. Western will meet the Ottawa Gee-Gees in the fifth place game at 5:20pm.