X-Men cross country ranked No. 7, X-Women hockey ranked No. 10
The AUS champion X-Men cross country team are ranked 7th in the nation heading into the CIS championship, while the X-Women hockey team cracked the top ten for the first time this season at No. 10.
CIS TOP TEN TUESDAY (#10)
Laval volleyball, UBC swimming climb to the
top
In women’s volleyball, Laval is off to a 5-0 start in RSEQ league play, including a four-set win over archrival Montreal on Saturday. The Rouge et Or had last been ranked No. 1 at the start of the 2010-11 campaign, when they led the first four coaches’ polls.
In women’s swimming, the reigning three-time CIS champion Thunderbirds are back in a familiar position, having led all 12 weekly rankings last season. On the men’s side, UBC overtakes defending national champion Toronto in the top 10 for the first time since last January.
In other CIS sports, Windsor (women’s basketball), Carleton (men’s basketball), Guelph (women’s & men’s cross country), McGill (women’s hockey) and Alberta (men’s hockey & men’s volleyball) all hold on to the pole position.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
(regular season record) / votes (first-place votes) / (previous ranking)
1. Windsor (0-0) / 547 points (42) / (1)
2. UBC (0-0) / 506 (4) / (2)
3. Alberta (2-0) / 454 / (3)
4. McGill (0-0) / 393 / (4)
5. Saint Mary’s (0-0) / 326 / (5)
6. McMaster (0-0) / 297 / (7)
7. Saskatchewan (0-2) / 274 / (6)
8. Queen’s (0-0) / 233 / (9)
9. Laval (0-0) / 119 / (NR)
10. Concordia (0-0) / 104 / (10)
Other teams receiving votes: Victoria (82), Winnipeg (81).
MEN’S BASKETBALL
(regular season record) / votes (first-place votes) / (previous ranking)
1. Carleton (0-0) / 426 points (41) / (1)
2. Ottawa (0-0) / 387 (2) / (2)
3. Ryerson (0-0) / 342 / (3)
4. McMaster (0-0) / 286 / (4)
5. Windsor (0-0) / 253 / (5)
6. Cape Breton (0-0) / 215 / (6)
7. UBC (0-0) / 173 / (7)
8. UNB (0-0) / 96 / (9)
9. Saskatchewan (1-1) / 77 / (8)
10. Victoria (2-0) / 73 / (10)
Other teams receiving votes: Calgary (14), Alberta (10).
WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY
(points) / (previous ranking)
1. Guelph 98 points / (1)
2. Trinity Western 88 / (2)
3. Western 80 / (3)
4. Queen’s 74 / (4)
T5. Toronto 54 / (5)
T5. Laval 54 / (7)
7. Victoria 34 / (6)
8. Alberta 20 / (9)
9. Ottawa 16 / (10)
10. Dalhousie 15 / (8)
MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY
(points) / (previous ranking)
1. Guelph 100 points / (1)
2. McMaster 82 / (4)
3. Windsor 78 / (2)
4. Laval 74 / (3)
5. Victoria 66 / (5)
6. Lakehead 38 / (6)
7. StFX 32 / (9)
8. Trinity Western 30 / (7)
9. Calgary 20 / (8)
10. Regina 15 / (NR)
WOMEN’S HOCKEY
(regular season record) / (previous ranking)
1. McGill (3-0-0) / (1)
2. Montreal (3-1-0) / (2)
3. Alberta (6-2-0) / (4)
4. Queen’s (5-0-2) / (3)
5. UBC (5-1-2) / (5)
6. Wilfrid Laurier (5-2-0) / (7)
7. Saskatchewan (5-3-0) / (8)
8. Guelph (3-1-1) / (6)
9. Western (6-0-1) / (NR)
10. StFX (5-1-0) / (NR)
MEN’S HOCKEY
(regular season record) / votes (first-place votes) / (previous ranking)
1. Alberta (9-1-0) / 150 points (15) / (1)
2. Acadia (7-1-0) / 130 / (2)
3. UNB (6-1-1) / 115 / (3)
4. Windsor (9-0-0) / 99 / (4)
5. Calgary (8-2-0) / 91 / (6)
6. UQTR (7-1-0) / 87 / (5)
7. Saint Mary’s (6-1-1) / 55 / (9)
8. Mount Royal (6-4-0) / 32 / (7)
9. Carleton (6-2-0) / 28 / (NR)
10. Moncton (5-2-1) / 21 / (8)
Other teams receiving votes: McGill (9), Manitoba (3), Laurentian (2), Ryerson (2), Saskatchewan (1).
WOMEN’S SWIMMING
(points) / (previous ranking)
1. UBC 987 points / (2)
2. Montreal 572 / (1)
3. Toronto 364 / (3)
4. Laval 206 / (4)
5. Calgary 165 / (9)
6. Ottawa 117 / (6)
7. Victoria 100 / (7)
8. McGill 89 / (5)
9. Dalhousie 63 / (8)
10. Manitoba 41 / (NR)
MEN’S SWIMMING
(points) / (previous ranking)
1. UBC 731 points / (2)
2. Toronto 666 / (1)
3. Calgary 460 / (8)
4. Ottawa 171 / (3)
5. Montreal 131 / (4)
6. Victoria 102 / (10)
7. McMaster 100 / (5)
8. Laval 96 / (6)
9. Alberta 84 / (NR)
10. Waterloo 77 / (7)
WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL
(regular season record) / votes / (previous ranking)
T1. Alberta (6-2) / 57 points / (1)
T1. Laval (5-0) / 57 / (T5)
3. Brandon (5-1) / 50 / (T5)
4. Montreal (5-1) / 48 / (2)
5. Toronto (4-0) / 42 / (T5)
6. UBC (5-3) / 38.5 / (NR)
T7. UBC Okanagan (4-4) / 34 / (3)
T7. Trinity Western (4-4) / 34 / (4)
9. Calgary (4-4) / 29.5 / (10)
10. Ryerson (4-0) / 22 / (NR)
Next highest votes: UNB (18), McGill (17), Manitoba (8), Winnipeg (7), Ottawa (6).
MEN’S VOLLEYBALL
(regular season record) / votes (first-place votes) / (previous ranking)
1. Alberta (8-0) / 280 points (28) / (1)
2. Trinity Western (6-2) / 244 (1) / (2)
3. McMaster (5-1) / 218 / (3)
4. Brandon (6-0) / 202 / (4)
5. UBC (7-1) / 160 / (5)
6. Dalhousie (5-0) / 136 / (10)
7. Calgary (3-5) / 86 / (7)
8. Winnipeg (5-1) / 65 / (10)
9. Western (4-1) / 55 / (8)
10. Guelph (4-1) / 33 / (NR)
FRC – CIS Football Top 10 (#10 – final poll of season)
Montreal moves up to No. 2, splits first-place voting in last poll of season
OTTAWA (CIS) – For the fourth time in program history, the Laval Rouge et Or went wire-to-wire as the No. 1 team in the CIS football weekly poll. But for the first time this season, the reigning two-time Vanier Cup champions were not a unanimous choice for No. 1 in the final top 10 of the campaign.
After receiving all 30 first-place votes and the maximum 300 points from the Football Reporters of Canada panel for nine straight Tuesdays, the Rouge et Or (7-1) had to settle for 18 first-place nods and 288 points in the last national poll of 2014, with the remaining votes for No. 1 going to their archrivals from the RSEQ conference, the second-seeded Montreal Carabins (7-1), who merited 274 points to reach their best ranking of the fall.
The McMaster Marauders (7-1) are also on the rise this week, moving up one spot to No. 3, while the Calgary Dinos (6-2) drop two positions to No. 4 after spending the entire season in second place.
The rest of the top 10 remains unchanged with the No. 5 Guelph Gryphons (7-1), No. 6 Mount Allison Mounties (8-0), No. 7 Western Mustangs (6-2 / 1-0 playoffs), No. 8 Saskatchewan Huskies (6-2), No. 9 Sherbrooke Vert & Or (5-3) and No. 10 Ottawa Gee-Gees (5-3 / 1-0) following in order.
It was an eventful last day of the regular season on Saturday in the RSEQ and Canada West.
At Montreal, the Carabins made a statement heading into the playoffs with a 13-9 win over the Rouge et Or, putting an end to Laval’s CIS-record streak of 25 consecutive overall victories. The remarkable sequence had started following another loss on Montreal’s home turf, a 17-12 defeat back on Oct. 9, 2012.
Despite the setback, the Vanier champs hold home-field advantage throughout the Quebec playoffs thanks to their 27-point win (40-13) in the first head-to-head meeting of the campaign between the two teams, on Sept. 6 in Quebec City.
In Saturday’s RSEQ semifinals, Laval hosts Concordia (5-3), while Montreal stays home to take on No. 9 Sherbrooke.
At Winnipeg, Calgary was upset 50-31 by Manitoba (4-4) in a game that meant everything for the Bisons, who were fighting for their playoff lives, while the Dinos had already clinched first place in the Canada West standings.
Manitoba visits Saskatchewan on Friday night in the first CWUAA semifinal, while Calgary entertains Regina (3-5) on Saturday.
Meanwhile, the playoffs got underway in the Maritimes and Ontario this past weekend.
In the lone AUS semifinal, StFX edged Acadia 18-17. The X-Men will now travel to Sackville, N.B., on Saturday to face the only remaining undefeated team in the country, Mount Allison, in the Loney Bowl conference final.
In the OUA quarterfinals, logic was respected in London, where Western downed Laurier 25-10, while in Windsor, Ottawa outscored the higher-seeded Lancers 46-29.
Ottawa visits McMaster and Western travels to Guelph in Saturday’s OUA semis.
A complete TV and webcast schedule is included below.
NOTES: Laval had previously swept the national weekly polls in 2005, 2007 and 2008... Laval and Montreal had previously occupied the top two spots in the CIS rankings on only two occasions, in 2009, when the Carabins were No. 1 and the Rouge et Or No. 2 in the Oct. 6 and Oct. 13 polls... The 50th TELUS Vanier Cup Tour goes back to the University of Montreal campus for the second straight week on Saturday for the Vert & Or vs. Carabins showdown... For all the information on the 50th TELUS Vanier Cup (including ticket info) visit vaniercup.com.
FRC – CIS FOOTBALL TOP 10 (#10)
Pts (1st place) Last week
1. Laval (7-1)
288 (18)
1
2. Montreal (7-1) 274
(12)
3
3. McMaster (7-1)
231
4
4. Calgary (6-2)
216
2
5. Guelph (7-1)
184
5
6. Mt. Allison (8-0)
156
6
7. Western (6-2 / 1-0) 109
7
8. Saskatchewan (6-2)
99
8
9. Sherbrooke (5-3)
50
9
10. Ottawa (5-3 / 1-0)
24
10
Other teams receiving votes: Manitoba (23), Concordia (1).
WEEK 10 RESULTS
November 1 (AUS semifinal & OUA quarter-finals)
StFX 18, Acadia 17 (at StFX)
Western 25, Laurier 10 (at Western)
Ottawa 46, Windsor 29 (at Windsor)
November 1 (regular season)
Montreal 13, Laval 9 (at Montreal)
Concordia 30, McGill 28 (at Concordia)
Sherbrooke 35, Bishop’s 14 (at Bishop’s)
Manitoba 50, Calgary 31 (at Manitoba)
Regina 35, Alberta 31 (at Regina)
Saskatchewan 38, UBC 18 (at UBC)
WEEK 11 SCHEDULE (all times local)
NOTE1: Click HERE
for the complete 2014 regular season schedule & results
NOTE 2: Click HERE
for the playoff schedule & results
November 7 (CW semifinal)
19:00 Manitoba (4-4) at No. 8 Saskatchewan (6-2) (Shaw TV & CanadaWest.TV)
November 8 (AUS final & conference semifinals)
13:00 Concordia (5-3) at No. 1 Laval (7-1)
(ici.radio-canada.ca
Quebec)
13:00 No. 9 Sherbrooke (5-3) at No. 2
Montreal (7-1) (Radio-Canada TV & ici.radio-canada.ca)
13:00 No. 10 Ottawa (6-3) at No. 3
McMaster (7-1) (Cable 14 & OUA.TV)
13:00 No. 7 Western (7-2) at No. 5 Guelph
(7-1) (OUA.TV)
14:00 StFX (5-4) at No. 7 Mount Allison
(8-0) (Eastlink TV & AUStv.ca)
15:00 Regina (3-5) at No. 4 Calgary (6-2)
(Shaw TV & CanadaWest.TV)