KINGSTON, Ont. (February 18, 2013) -  A look at the Gaels playoff matchups, schedules and scenario's as basketball and hockey get set for OUA playoff action while women's swimming is represented at the CIS Championship in Calgary.

 Women's Hockey - Men's Basketball - Women's Basketball - CIS Swimming




The Gaels closed out their quarterfinal opening series against Windsor in convincing fashion with a 7-1 win on Sunday afternoon. Morgan McHaffie finished with a five point day while Brittany McHaffie finished with a hat-trick. Next up for the Gaels is a matchup with one of their perennial rivals the Guelph Gryphons. The Gaels defeated Guelph to win the 2010-11 OUA Championship, a series that included the longest collegiate hockey game in history that was won by Queen's 2-1. This season the Gaels and Gryphons split their season series 1-1. The Gryphons swept their opening round series with UOIT to extend their win streak to 16 including regular season and post-season play.

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OUA East Women's Basketball
CURRENT MATCHUP
	(1) No. 9Ottawa Gee-Gees (16-4, 32 pts) Home record: 9-1 Away record: 7-3
	(5) Queen's Gaels (7-13, 14 pts) Home record: 4-6 Away record: 3-7
Regular season series (Ottawa won, 2-0) Jan 18, 2013 Queen's 43, Ottawa 66 Feb 2, 2013 Ottawa 67, Queen's 53 Playoff Schedule (Winner advances to East final) Feb 23, 2013 Queen's @ Ottawa 6:00PM - Watch LIVE

Queen's will visit the Ryerson Rams to open up the OUA playoffs this season. This year Queen's was 0-2 against Ryerson, a team that struggled at home with a 3-7 record, something the Gaels will look to take advantage of. After a good portion of their starting lineup went down with injuries mid-way through the season Queen's finally started to see players return to the lineup and picked up a split on their final road trip that sent them to Sudbury and Toronto. The women's team will look to their strong three-point shooting to give them the edge as their 33.9 percent efficiency was ranked the fourth best in the CIS.

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CIS Women's Swimming

Margo Bacher (Corwall, Ont.) will be representing the Gaels this week at the CIS swimming championship. The three-day national meet, which kicks off the CIS winter championship season, runs from Thursday to Saturday at the University of Calgary Aquatic Centre, with preliminaries starting at 10 a.m. and finals at 6 p.m. Mountain Time daily.

Bacher will be competing in the 50, 100 and 200 metre breaststroke after finishing with 4th, 7th and 5th place finishes respectively in each event at the OUA Championship in Toronto.

All Canadian individual gold medallists from the championships will automatically earn a spot on the world university games' squad provided they also participate in this spring's World Trials in Victoria (April 3-6).

All morning and evening sessions will be webcast live on www.CIS-SIC.tv. Live results are also available on the championship website: http://english.cis-sic.ca/championships/swim/index.

2013 CIS SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS SCHEDULE (Heats 10 a.m. MT / Finals 6 p.m. MT)

Thursday, Feb. 21 (order of finals)
#1 Women's 200 Free
#2 Men's 200 Free
#3 W 50 Back
#4 M 50 Back
#5 W 100 Breast
#6 M 100 Breast
#7 W 100 Fly
#8 M 100 Fly
#9 W 400 IM
#10 M 400 IM
#11 W 4x100 Free Relay
#12 M 4x100 Free Relay

Friday, Feb. 22 (order of finals)
#13 W 100 Back
#14 M 100 Back
#15 W 50 Fly
#16 M 50 Fly
#17 W 400 Free
#18 M 400 Free
#19 W 200 Breast
#20 M 200 Breast
#21 W 50 Free
#22 M 50 Free
#23 W 200 Fly
#24 M 200 Fly
#25 W 4x200 Free Relay
#26 M 4x200 Free Relay

Saturday, Feb. 23 (order of finals)
#27 W 800 Free
#28 M 50 Breast
#29 W 50 Breast
#30 M 200 Back
#31 W 200 Back
#32 M 100 Free
#33 W 100 Free
#34 M 200 IM
#35 W 200 IM
#36 M 1500 Free
#37 W 4x100 Medley Relay
#38 M 4x100 Medley Relay

OUA East Men's Basketball
CURRENT MATCHUP
	(4) Laurentian Voyageurs (11-9, 22 pts) Home record: 7-3 Away record: 4-6
	(5) Queen's Gaels (10-10, 20 pts) Home record: 6-4 Away record: 4-6
Regular season series (Split, 1-1) Jan 12, 2013 Laurentian 82, Queen's 84 Feb 8, 2013 Queen's 86, Laurentian 95 Playoff Schedule (Voyageurs advance) Feb 20, 2013 Queen's 80, Laurentian 93

The Gaels will start their playoff run on the road as they travel to Sudbury Wednesday to take on the Laurentian Voyageurs. The two teams split their regular season meetings with the home team winning on each occasion. The Gaels three-point shooting has been their strong suit this season as they finished fifth in the CIS in three-pointers made per game with an efficientcy of 31.9 percent. Queen's will need to be up to task as the Voyageurs have played well at the Ben Avery gym in Sudbury finishing the season with a 7-3 home record.

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