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<p>The men’s basketball team had a solid weekend, despite only winning one out of three games. They lost two close games on the weekend, both coming down to the final shot. It looked like the Tommies would be in a rebuilding year, but Will Barber is proving that won’t be the case. St. Thomas lost four [&hellip;]</p>

<p>This season, the St. Thomas women’s basketball team is looking to get the only medal that has eluded them at the CCAA national championship. They started where they left off, delivering a pounding to the University of Kings College Blue Devil in the first day of the Ken Gould Invitational Tournament this weekend. The Tommies [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Universite de Moncton’s Pier-Antoine Dion ended St. Thomas’s men’s hockey home opener with a power play goal five-and-a-half minutes into overtime Thursday night. “We got up and down and kept tying it up,” Tommies head coach Pat Powers said after Thursday’s back-and-forth, physical game at the Grant-Harvey Centre. “In past years, it has been a different [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The St. Thomas University men’s soccer team had an important week of home games, with only one more weekend of games left before playoffs. With the Tommies on the outside looking in with regards to the playoff picture, they had to make every game count. The Tommies started out their week Wednesday night where they [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas avenged last weekend’s loss with a 15-5 win over the Mount Allison Mounties on Friday night. The Mounties had ruined STU&#8217;s perfect season the previous weekend, and it was the Tommies&#8217; turn to do the same. STU went into halftime tied up and remained even with Mount Allison until the final 15 minutes [&hellip;]</p>

<p>At first glance, most people wouldn&#8217;t consider comparing Andrew Holmes to future Hall-of-Famer Allen Iverson, who played in the NBA from 1996 to 2010. Holmes is a former St. Thomas Tommie. He played basketball under the guidance of Tommies head coach Dwight Dickinson. But the two players are more similar than you&#8217;d think. Holmes grew [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Just outside Fredericton, a little off the beaten path, there is a group of highly trained and dedicated athletes. Their gear is camo and tactical vests. Grenades line their chests and guns hug their sides. This is not a New Brunswick militia. This is Airsoft New Brunswick. With a social media following of 467 people, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It was a tough weekend for St. Thomas women’s soccer as the team fought for playoff positioning in their final home games of the season. The St. Thomas Tommies won one and lost the other two. The first game was against the Crandall Chargers on Wednesday night. There the Tommies were able to come up [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The wait is over. St. Thomas University has won its first Battle of the Hill in eight years against a UNB team that convincingly won by over 40 points a month ago. The St. Thomas Tommies walked away Saturday with a 24-19 victory over the Ironmen after a muddy game that left players on the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>People in Fredericton are falling in love with ultimate frisbee, and students at St. Thomas University are no exception. First-year STU student Book Sadprasid began playing when she was in Grade 10 at Leo Hayes High School. It was new to her school, and she wanted to play. “I attended practice and fell in love with [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University&#8217;s women&#8217;s rugby team suffered their first loss of the year Friday night at the hands of the Mount Allison University Mounties. Their physical game was matched by a determined Mounties team as the half-time lead wasn&#8217;t enough to prevent a 24-12 defeat. The first half saw St. Thomas attacking ferociously in the Mounties half. Though [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Sleep. Wake up. Soccer practice. Classes. Eat. Classes. Volleyball practice. Sleep. That’s the life for two student athletes at St. Thomas University. Emily Cronkhite and Mija MacDonald play on both the women’s volleyball and soccer teams. MacDonald is in her first year at St. Thomas. Through high school she played both soccer and volleyball, so [&hellip;]</p>

<p>New to College Hill this year: the Buccaneers. The UNB Buccaneers are a club lacrosse team, but it&#8217;s not only for UNB students. Fourth-year students Conrad Palmer and Jake Bracewell from St. Thomas are donning the red jersey of their neighbour down the hill. The Buccaneers are off to a pretty stormy season. After losing heartbreakers [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University will not participate in a voluntary Canadian Interuniversity Sport women’s hockey pilot project in which schools will offer more generous scholarships for players. Schools can currently offer $5,000 in bursaries for tuition and fees for up to 70 per cent of their rosters, which are limited to around 20 players. Under the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The St. Thomas University women’s soccer team broke the ice and got their first win in Saturday’s game against the UNB Saint John Seawolves. The Tommies took control early, with Elaine Gillis scoring the first goal 21 minutes into the game. Later in the half, UNBSJ’s Lauren Coyle went down in the box, and the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The St. Thomas University women’s rugby team is off to a fresh start this season. The team returns to the Atlantic Collegiate Athletic Association this year with over half a team of rookies and a new coach. The team entered the Atlantic University Sports league in 2012 coming off an ACAA championship. Unfortunately, the team [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Nick Brown had just finished his first weekend as a defender with the STU Tommies soccer team. He was fitting into the squad well when he was hit with some tough news. Doctors told him he had a slight detachment in his retina again, and heading the ball would increase the chance of detaching it further. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Perseverance was the key for the St. Thomas Tommies on Saturday against the University of New Brunswick Saint John Seawolves. STU was able to come up with a 3-2 win. “We never gave up,” said men&#8217;s soccer head coach, Darren Cann, following STU’s home match at Scotiabank South Field. “We didn’t accept it when they [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It looked like it was going to be a tough season for the men’s soccer team at St. Thomas University, but the team is shattering that notion. After the first weekend of play, the Tommies were ranked 15 overall in CCAA conference. The news came as a pleasant surprise to head coach Darren Cann. “The [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In the St. Thomas University men’s soccer season opener, Josh Drennan scored the team’s first and only goal. What many fans didn&#8217;t know was that soccer isn&#8217;t the first sport that Drennan has played at STU. “I love so many sports. It sounds like a lack of commitment,” said Drennan, laughing. “But it’s not. I [&hellip;]</p>