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SportsWomen’s Basketball: (Pre-Season) Upset!
The Concordia Stingers women’s basketball team defeated the five-time defending national champions, the Windsor Lancers 70-63, at the Concordia Gymnasium this past Friday evening.
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Sports“For Our Brothers”
For Concordia’s men’s rugby team, the expectations are always high. The Stingers are the reigning champions of the Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec after finally defeating their rivals, the McGill Redmen. Concordia has reached the RSEQ championship game for the last five seasons, all against McGill, but only won over their cross-town rivals last year.
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SportsSurf’s Down
There was a weird ambiance at the Lachine Canal’s dock station among the young surfers who had paddled the whole morning on the choppy waters. Most of them had their lips pulled back, grinning as they enjoyed their last paddle session of the season. But underneath those temporary smiles, bigger concerns were hiding.
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SportsMen’s Rugby: Cold Front
Entering their sixth game of the season, Concordia’s men’s rugby team needed a win to keep their hopes alive of getting into the Réseau de sport étudiant Québec quarterfinals. In their way stood the Université de Montréal Carabins, who beat the Stingers nearly a month ago at the Concordia Stadium.
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SportsMen’s Basketball: Golden Hawk Down
Concordia’s men’s basketball team won 79-60 over the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks this past Friday evening during their annual pre-season Concordia Classic Tournament at the Concordia Gymnasium.
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SportsWomen’s Soccer: Playoffs Slipping Away?
By their own admission, an “average” Université de Montréal Carabins defeated the Concordia Stingers women’s soccer team 2-0 on Sunday afternoon.
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SportsMen’s Soccer: Shutout Again
A tough weekend came to a close Sunday afternoon for the Concordia men’s soccer team. After dropping a tough 2-0 defeat to number one nationally ranked UQAM on Friday, Concordia fell to the Université de Montréal Carabins by the same score on Sunday afternoon.
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SportsPitching For A Third
As the season winds down for the Stingers baseball team, the last pitch of every game brings them one step closer to the playoffs, and one step closer to a chance at a third consecutive Canadian Collegiate Baseball Association Northern Division championship.
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SportsReggae Boy
It was an unreasonably hot afternoon in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The mid-August sun was relentless in the sky, beaming down directly on the soccer players as they nervously fidgeted and jogged in place. Brandon Anderson stood intently in the row of his teammates, all wearing black, yellow and green—the colours of their country, Jamaica.
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SportsBaseball: Stingers Sweep!
After disappointing back-to-back losses on Thursday and Friday against the McGill Redmen, the Concordia Stingers responded first by holding a players only meeting early on Saturday morning before beginning their last five games of the year that would conclude on Monday night against McGill.
