Sports

<p>Netminder Gabrielle Forget and her teammates made the Tommies women&#8217;s hockey squad&#8217;s final home game of the regular season one that St. Thomas University probably hopes to forget. The fourth-year Université de Moncton Aigles Bleues goalie stopped all 30 Tommies shots in a 2-0 victory on Friday night at Grant-Harvey Centre. The Tommies (17-4-3) then [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Women’s Hockey Feb. 3 vs. SMU &#8211; 4-3 2OT loss Women’s Basketball Feb. 5 @ Crandall &#8211; 72-69 loss Feb. 1 @ UNBSJ &#8211; 79-42 win Men’s Basketball Feb. 5 @ Crandall &#8211; 92-66 loss Feb. 4 vs. Dal AC &#8211; 71-62 loss Feb. 1 @ UNBSJ &#8211; 70-67 loss Women’s Volleyball Feb. 5 vs. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Rivalries have dominated sports for hundreds of years, and that theme has not changed in our modern-day game. The huge egos and personalities of current players in the National Basketball Association are through the roof, and this theme seems to be centered around the huge stars and their respective teams. On Wednesday evening, Feb. 8, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Greg Allan is the new head coach of the St. Thomas University’s track and field team. He replaces Alex Coffin, who resigned in December. Allan, who is from Campbelton, N.B., has always liked sports. “Since I have been a young boy, I have always been athletic,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I played baseball, fastball and hockey.” Allan [&hellip;]</p>

<p>After playing volleyball at elite levels for more than a decade, Jason Cannon and Thomas Tremblay remain involved with the game, but from a different part of the sidelines nowadays. Cannon and Tremblay returned to the St. Thomas University men’s volleyball team as assistant coaches for the current season. Their move behind the bench comes [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Tommies women&#8217;s hockey captain Kelty Apperson and her teammates on Canada&#8217;s national squad came up short of the ultimate prize at the 2017 Winter Universiade. Team Canada fell 4-1 to Team Russia Monday in Almaty, Kazakhstan, in a gold medal game that saw plenty of bounces and quality scoring chances go both ways. The loss [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Tommies women&#8217;s hockey captain Kelty Apperson and Team Canada will play for world supremacy at the 2017 Winter Universiade in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Canada will face Team Russia in the gold medal game on Monday, Feb. 6 at 8 p.m. local time (10 a.m. Atlantic). Apperson picked up an assist on Canada&#8217;s fifth goal against Team [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Tommies women’s hockey captain Kelty Apperson is currently skating some massive strides on an international level. The dynamic 22-year-old forward is carrying the Team Canada banner along with 21 other players at the 2017 Winter Universiade in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Apperson is one of three alternate captains on Team Canada. The others are forwards Jessica Cormier [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Kristina Kocsis was six or seven years old the first time she was on skates. She began playing hockey not long after. More than a decade later, after competing at elite levels throughout her childhood and teenage years, the third-year Tommies women’s hockey defender had to step away from her favourite game. Along with her [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Curtis Lauzon was announced as the new Tommies men’s rugby coach on Jan. 19. He has been in contact with now ex-coach Jon Wilson for months, but the reality of the position did not dawn on him until his first recruitment meeting. “To be able to sit down in their home with his parents there, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Women’s Hockey Jan. 28 vs. MtA &#8211; 5-3 win Jan. 27 vs. Dalhousie &#8211; 4-2 loss Women’s Basketball Jan. 28 vs. Holland &#8211; 80-55 loss   Men’s Basketball Jan. 28 vs. Holland &#8211; 99-48 loss Women’s Volleyball Jan. 28 vs. Holland &#8211; 3-1 loss   Men’s Volleyball Jan. 29 vs. Holland &#8211; 3-2 win   [&hellip;]</p>

<p>On Sunday, Feb. 5, the National Football League has its biggest game of the season in Houston, Texas with Super Bowl LI (51) taking place. The New England Patriots will face the Atlanta Falcons with quarterback Tom Brady and bench boss Bill Belichick vying for their fifth Super Bowls as a coach/player duo. On the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Women’s Hockey Jan. 22 @ StFX &#8211; 4-3 2OT loss Jan. 21 @ SMU &#8211; 4-0 loss Women’s Basketball Jan. 21 @ MSVU &#8211; 67-43 loss Men’s Basketball Jan. 22 @ Dal AC &#8211; 85-57 win Jan. 21 @ MSVU &#8211; 79-56 loss Women’s Volleyball Jan. 21 vs. Dal AC &#8211; 3-1 win Men’s Volleyball [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association currently sit second in the Eastern Conference only behind the defending champion Cleveland Cavaliers. The Raptors are in much need of an upgrade at the power forward position, and the rumour mill is swirling with the idea they are trying to acquire Paul Millsap of the Atlanta [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Alex Coffin resigned as head coach of the St. Thomas University track and field team in December 2016. Coffin, 48, was in his fourth year as a coach. He was also looking forward to once again bringing the Tommies to the McGill Team Challenge, a major track and field event hosted on Jan. 27, by [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Tommies volleyball teams both picked up victories on Saturday, Jan. 21 on home court. The St. Thomas University men (5-3) shut out the Université Sainte-Anne Dragons 3-0 Saturday afternoon. The win for the STU men came on the heels of the Tommies women (5-8) defeating the Dalhousie Agricultural Campus Rams 3-1. The men’s team [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Some more track and field records were smashed by Tommies athletes at the Jump Start Moncton Open on Saturday, Jan. 14. First-year St. Thomas University runner Chelsey Hall had two record-breaking finishes at the meet. Hall&#8217;s performances included new STU standards for the 300-metre and 800-metre events with times of 45.9 and 2:30.42, respectively. Laura [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The following is a farewell letter to departing Tommies men’s rugby coach Jon Wilson written by fourth-year winger Mitchell Peardon on behalf of his teammates. Wilson recently stepped down as the Tommies’ bench boss, citing his young family, his job as a teacher and his desire to keep playing and eventually return to coaching as [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Tommies women’s hockey team wrapped up a four-game homestand on the weekend by extending its win streak to seven contests. St. Thomas University (15-1-1) downed the University of Prince Edward Island Panthers 8-3 Saturday at Grant-Harvey Centre in a match that wasn’t as lopsided as the score suggests. STU scored four goals in the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Forward Myf Thomson of the Tommies women’s hockey team got some special attention from a national network last week. Thomson was named third star of the week for women’s hockey on Jan. 10 by the Canadian University Sports Network in recognition of the several shots she blocked on the penalty kill in the home contest [&hellip;]</p>