The Queen's Gaels are OUA champions once again. One year after dropping the OUA Women's Rugby Championship to the Guelph Gryphons on home pitch, the Gaels exacted some revenge with a big 61-21 win in front of a loud crowd at Nixon Field in Kingston, Ont.

The win gave Queen's three of the last four conference championships in Women's Rugby.

After a tight first half which saw the Gaels lead by just five points at half time, Queen's ran away with the game in the second half, scoring five unanswered tries for the 40-point win.

Queen's opened the scoring with back-to-back tries. Maddy Donnelly got the Gaels on the board with a terrific run, finishing on the right end of the try zone, before Kennedi Stevenson scored the first of two tries in the first half. Lizzie Gibson converted on both tries to give Queen's a 14-0 lead.

The Gryphons would respond with Emily Lenhardt pushing the ball into the try zone and Grace Jocklyn converting to cut the Gaels' lead in half.

Queen's would score another pair of back-to-back tries with Mika Matsukubo finding the try zone before Stevenson scored again. Gibson would connect on the convert on Matsukubo's tries to give Queen's a 26-7 lead.

The Gryphons closed out the first half with their own set of back-to-back tries. Taylor McKnight found the try zone first before Addy Holmes score for Guelph, with Jocklyn and Milla Sayavongsa converting on both to cut Queen's lead to 26-21 at half time.

It was all Queen's Gaels in the second half.

Tattyannah Jackson was the first to find the try zone before Stevenson scored the hat trick try. Maddy May also found the try zone and Matsukubo added a second. Kyleigh Chandran scored the fifth try of the half and with Gibson converting on all five, the Gaels increased their lead to 61-21.

"Sticking with our game," Gibson said about the Gaels' second half performance. "We knew that this game was going to be all about momentum and the Gryphons were going to come out and give us a really good push. That's what we want, we've been wanting that all year to have a tough game. So at half time we said it's a game about momentum, let's take that back and play our game, get back to what we know."

Donnelly was named Player of the Game in the Championship tilt for Queen's.

"So excited," Donnelly said after the game. "We knew if we played our game, we could do it. They are a great team, we play them every year, it's always a good game but it makes it so much more special to bring it home on Nixon."

"It was really a 1-25 effort."

"It's always pretty special when you can come in, put in a performance like that, that everybody top to bottom should be exceptionally proud of, get the result, and to be able to do it at home on Nixon Field, that's a tough moment to top," said Queen's Women's Rugby Head Coach Dan Valley.

Both teams will now head out west for the U SPORTS Women's Rugby Championship in Vancouver, B.C. Seeding for the championship will be announced later this weekend.