GAMES OF THE WEEKÂ
CROSS COUNTRY
The Queen's No.1 women's and No.5 men's cross country teams kick off their 2019 season with the Western Invitational in London on Saturday.Â
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FOOTBALL
The Queen's Gaels football team (1-3) travel to face the No. 10 University of Toronto Varsity Blues (2-1) at 1pm at Varsity Stadium.Â
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WOMEN'S SOCCER
The Queen's Gaels women's soccer team (4-0-1) will look to continue their unbeaten streak as they face the Carleton Ravens (0-3-2) and No. 1 Ottawa (5-0-1) at Tindall Field this weekend. Â
The Ravens will be in search of their first victory of the season as the take on Queen's on Saturday at 1pm.Â
As the defending U SPORTS and OUA Champions, the unbeaten No.1 Gee-Gee's will be the toughest challenge of the season for the Gaels on Sunday at 1pm. Queen's fell in both contests against Ottawa last season.Â
MEN'S SOCCERÂ
The Queen's Gaels men's soccer team (1-4-1) will face the No. 4 Carleton Ravens (6-0-0) at 3:15 pm at Tindall Field on Saturday. The Gaels earned their most recent victory over Carleton in 2014. Queen's is coming off a weekend where they picked up a 0-0 draw and their first win of the season.
The Ravens sit atop the OUA East standings and have a 14-2 goal differential compared to 4-9 for the Gaels.
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WOMEN'S RUGBYÂ
The No. 1 ranked Gaels women's rugby team (3-0) will close their regular season on the road against the Brock Badgers (1-1), following a historic victory over the Guelph Gryphons last weekend. Brock has posted consecutive 4-0 regular season records in the Russell Division in 2016 and 2017.
For Queen's they will look to lock up first place in the OUA with a win.
The game will be livestreamed on OUA.tvÂ
MEN'S RUGBYÂ
The undefeated men's rugby team (2-0) is also in action this Friday against the Guelph Gryphons (2-0) at 7pm. The matchup is a battle between two of Ontario's best programs and a rematch of last year's OUA championship that was won by the Gaels. Of the last seven Turner Trophy OUA champions six have been Queen's with Guelph claiming the title in 2016-17 which is also the last time the Gaels lost to an OUA opponent.
The winner of the match will have bragging rights throughout the season as each side will hope to meet again for the banner at the end of the OUA playoffs.
EXHIBITION
A number of Gaels teams are in exhibition action this weekend. Men's Volleyball hosts the Montreal Carabins at the Queen's ARC on Friday and Saturday with both matches set for 6 pm start times. Women's Volleyball heads to Montreal for the UQAM Invitational where teh Gaels will play five matches starting with tilts against McGill and UQAM on Friday at 1 and 5:30 pm.Â
The women's and men's hockey teams hit the ice this weekend with the women taking part in the Old Four tournament meeting McGill on Friday in Toronto at 7:00 pm. Meanwhile in Toronto the men's team will challenge Ryerson at 7:15 pm.