03/17/10 CIS men’s hockey Alberta seeded No. 1 for University Cup Saint Mary's seeded #3 OTTAWA (CIS) – For the second straight season, the University of Alberta Golden Bears are the tournament favourites for the CIS men’s hockey championship.
The seedings were announced Wednesday morning for the 2010 Cavendish University Cup, presented by TBay Tel. The six-team tournament will be hosted by Lakehead University at Fort William Gardens in Thunder Bay, Ont., from Thursday, March 25 to Sunday, March 28.
03/15/10 No. 8 Huskies sweep No. 10 X-Men to repeat as AUS men's hockey champions Pridham named Playoff MVP The CIS No. 8 ranked Saint Mary's Huskies defeated the StFX X-Men 5-3 Monday night in front of 3,896 fans at the Halifax Forum to complete a three game sweep of their best-of-five AUS men's hockey final.
The Huskies will head back to Thunder Bay, Ont., for another run at the University Cup national men's hockey title.
03/11/10 PREVIEW: 2010 Subway AUS Men's Basketball Championship Huskies vs Panthers, Friday, March 12, 8:15 p.m. SYDNEY, NS - The top-seeded Cape Breton Capers and second seeded StFX X-Men will likely have the largest contingent of vocal fans this weekend as the 2010 Subway AUS men's basketball championship tips off at Centre 200 in Sydney, NS.
03/08/10 Huskies hammer X-Men SMU defeats St. F.X. 7-1 in Game 1 of Atlantic university hockey final
The Saint Mary’s Huskies have drawn first blood in the Atlantic University Hockey Conference championship with the St. Francis Xavier X-Men.
But the Huskies’ 7-1 rout in Game 1 of the best-of-five final series Sunday night was marred by a frightening scene late in the second period.
03/03/10 No. 8 Huskies defeat No. 4 Axemen 9-2 to advance to AUS final Andrew Hotham's six point night leads SMU March 3, 2010 (HALIFAX, NS) - The CIS No. 8 ranked Saint Mary's Huskies will have the opportunity to defend their AUS championship title after defeating the No. 4 ranked Acadia Axemen 9-2 in front of 3,228 fans Wednesday night at the Halifax Forum to win their best three-of-five semifinal series 3-1.
Saint Mary's, now 5-1 in the playoffs, were led by third year defenseman and Subway Player of the Game Andrew Hotham (Barie, ON), who scored four goals in the win and added a pair of assists for a career-high six-point night.
02/28/10 Aigles Bleues loose 6-2 in final SMU wins AUS Championship MONCTON – Saint Mary’s University Huskies caused quite a surprise during the weekend by capturing the honours of the 13th Subway Atlantic University Sport Women’s Hockey Championship played at the J.-Louis Lévesque Arena.
Huskies beat the Université de Moncton Aigles Bleues 6-2 in the final game on Sunday to win the right to represent the Atlantic Region in the national championships in Antigonish in two weeks.
02/21/10 Huskies defeat X-Women in straight sets to claim 2010 Subway AUS Women’s Volleyball Crown Smit named Keith’s MVP in three set victory In the championship game of the 2010 Subway AUS Women’s Volleyball Championship, the host Saint Mary’s Huskies defeated the first place StFX X-Women in straight sets (25-12, 25-19, 25-14) to capture their fifth AUS banner in front of over 500 fans Sunday afternoon at the Tower in Halifax.
The Saint Mary’s Huskies are off to the next round in the Atlantic university hockey playoffs.
Justin Munden scored two goals on the same shift in the first period to pace the Huskies to a 4-2 victory over the Moncton Aigles Bleus in Game 2 of their AUS quarter-final Saturday night in Moncton.
02/20/10 Huskies take series opener MacDonald scores winning goal in double overtime
David MacDonald scored on a screened shot from the blue-line 1:30 into double overtime Friday night at the Halifax Forum as the Saint Mary’s Huskies escaped with a 2-1 victory over the Moncton Aigles Bleus in the opener of their best-of-three AUS quarter-final hockey series.
02/17/10 2009-10 AUS Women's Volleyball All-Stars Announced SMU's Smit and Beaver Named to First Team (February 17, 2010) HALIFAX, NS - Atlantic University Sport is pleased to announce the 2009-10 women's volleyball all-star teams as selected by the conference's head coaches following regular season play.
The Saint Mary's Huskies, UNB Varsity Reds and Cape Breton Capers each had two players named to the first team to account for six of the seven spots, with Catherine Thornton of the first place StFX X-Women rounding out the squad. Last year's AUS Most Valuable Player Kerri Smit of Saint Mary's is a first team all-star for the second year in a row, as is UNB's Jillian Blanchard.
Alison Beaver notched 16 kills and Kerri Smit added a dozen as the Saint Mary’s Huskies swept past the Cape Breton Capers 3-0 in the regular-season finale of the AUS women’s volleyball league Sunday afternoon at The Tower.
02/11/10 Still lots at stake in AUHC Playoff spot, home-ice edge on line in league’s final weekend
The Atlantic University Hockey Conference heads into its final weekend of the regular season with a playoff spot still up for grabs and teams jockeying for home-ice advantage.
01/27/10 No. 4 ranked Axemen defeat No. 7 Huskies 4-1, Danton scores in SMU debut Record Crowd of 3723 (January 27, 2010) HALIFAX, NS - The CIS No. 4 ranked Acadia Axemen skated past the No. 7 ranked Saint Mary's Huskies in front of an AUS season-high crowd of 3,723 fans at the Halifax Forum Wednesday night and became the second AUS team to officially secure a berth in the postseason.
Some of the Forum faithful may have been disappointed not to see Mike Danton in a Saint Mary’s uniform Saturday night.
Instead, they were treated to an all-star performance from Cam Fergus.
The third-year forward scored four goals to lead his Huskies to a 7-3 drubbing of the Dalhousie Tigers in Atlantic Universities Hockey Conference action at the north-end arena.
01/13/10 ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY SPORT SUBWAY ATHLETES OF THE WEEK SMU's Haywood, takes top male honors Joey Haywood of the Saint Mary’s Huskies men’s basketball team is the Atlantic University Sport Subway Male Athlete of the Week for the week ending January 10th, 2010
01/10/09 The Tower- Improving everyday!
Our new Woodway SpeedBoard is creating quite a buzz at The Tower this month. The latest in treadmill innovation, the Woodway Company introduced their new SpeedBoard in March, 2009 with great success. It features a sophisticated curved design and smooth system that allows its user to speed up and slow down instantly, rather than pushing buttons and waiting for the running belt to follow suit.
The Tower Fitness Facility is very excited to be one of the first fitness facilities in Canada to have one of these unique new treadmills. With the curved design of the motor-less treadmill, it better simulates running outdoors compared to flat treadmills and there is no maximum speed since it is human powered! Both athletes and light exercisers are seeing the benefits of this new piece of equipment. Ask our Tower Program staff to get you started.
01/04/10 Huskies capture Shoveller tourney Uchegbu named Tournament MVP
Ikeobi Uchegbu scored 18 points and grabbed nine rebounds to give the Saint Mary’s Huskies a 71-66 victory over the St. Francis Xavier X-Men in the championship game of the Rod Shoveller Memorial basketball tournament at Dalhousie University on Sunday.
11/29/09 Huskies win in OT Munden’s extra-frame goal sinks Dal
Justin Munden’s overtime goal, on a brilliant second effort, may have been just what his Saint Mary’s Huskies needed to get out of their funk.
The Huskies edged the Dalhousie Tigers 6-5 Saturday night at the Halifax Forum to snap a three-game Atlantic university hockey losing streak.
Sumarah becomes third SMU Head Coach to win the award
QUEBEC CITY (CIS) – Saint Mary’s University’s Steve Sumarah is the 2009 recipient of the Frank Tindall trophy as the coach of the year in CIS football, presented by Coaches of Canada.
A first-time winner, Sumarah was honoured Friday morning during the CIS Coach of the Year Breakfast at Palais des arts.
The AUS may have done the Saint Mary’s Huskies a favour when they docked all-conference tailback Devon Jones two games for striking a St. Francis Xavier X-Men player in a regular-season game on Oct. 23.
Jones bit his lip and took his punishment, choosing not to give his version of events, but pledging to be the best teammate he could be through his two games on the sidelines, which included last week’s 31-22 Loney Bowl win over the X-Men.
11/15/09 Huskies win AUS title SMU to meet Blake Nill’s Calgary Dinos in CIS semi
THE SAINT MARY’S HUSKIES are heading down the Vanier Cup trail once again thanks to the unrelenting legs of Salmon River’s Craig Leger.
And they’ve got their dream date in next weekend’s Uteck Bowl to boot.
11/12/09 Huskies hold off Tigers High school rivals continue battle on university court
Justine Colley netted 18 points to offset former high school rival Anna von Maltzahn’s 15 as the Saint Mary’s Huskies downed the Dalhousie Tigers 65-55 in Atlantic university women’s basketball action Wednesday night at the Tower in Halifax.
11/06/09 2009 AUS Men's Soccer Awards Announced AUS & CIS Recipient- Guiseppe Scichilone (Gondola Point, NB) of the Saint Mary’s Huskies is the Student-Athlete Community Service Award November 5, 2009 (HALIFAX, NS) - Atlantic University Sport is pleased to announce the 2009 men's soccer major award winners as selected by the conference's head coaches following regular season play.
11/02/09 CIS announces 2008-09 Desjardins Top Eight Academic All-Canadians SMU Hockey Player, Chris Morrison in Top Eight OTTAWA (CIS) – Canadian Interuniversity Sport proudly announced Monday the student-athletes honoured as Desjardins Top Eight Academic All-Canadians for the 2008-09 season.
Every year, a growing number of CIS student-athletes are recognized as Academic All-Canadians, having maintained a grade point average (GPA) of 80 percent or better over the academic year while competing for one - or more - of their university’s varsity teams.
In 2008-09, a record 2,256 students achieved the prestigious status. The previous mark of 2,126 dated back to the 2005-06 academic year.
11/01/09 Ashley Ryer wins AUS 5k Russell Christie tops men’s 10k field
Ashley Ryer and Russell Christie couldn’t have scripted a better cap to their Atlantic university cross-country careers.
Ryer of Saint Mary’s and Dalhousie’s Christie, who each are graduating this spring, captured the women’s and men’s conference championships respectively Saturday afternoon at Point Pleasant Park.
10/31/09 Huskies on a roll Palardy sets record with four field goals in victory over Acadia
TRURO’S Justin Palardy has another AUS football record thanks to four field goals and the Saint Mary’s Huskies are rolling into the post-season.
The CIS No. 6 Huskies clipped the Acadia Axemen 21-7 Friday night before a drowsy 1,800 at Huskies Stadium for a 7-1 regular-season record and a seven-game winning streak. The Axemen enter the playoffs 2-6.
10/29/09 Running title is up for grabs Three women in contention for AUS cross-country championship
Flip a coin, choose a number or even draw straws.
Picking a winner in the women’s five-kilometre race at this Saturday’s Atlantic University Sport cross-country championships at Point Pleasant Park is anyone’s guess.
St. Francis Xavier’s Monika Priebischova, the 2007 champion and last year’s runner-up, should be considered the favourite in the biggest event on the AUS cross-country calendar.
10/23/09 New kid on the block Russell takes over head-coaching duties with volleyball Huskies
The new kid in the AUS women’s volleyball coaching fraternity heads into the 2009-10 campaign with his star player on the mend.
Darren Russell, an assistant with Saint Mary’s for the past seven seasons, takes over as Huskies’ bench boss from Mark Burley.
10/23/09 Into the snake pit Big stakes tonight for X-Men, Huskies
IT’S THE BIGGEST game of the regular season in AUS football at a place that has been nothing more than a snake pit for the St. Francis Xavier X-Men for the past decade.
Gary Waterman’s X-Men visit Steve Sumarah’s Saint Mary’s Huskies at Huskies Stadium tonight in a clash of 5-1 teams.
What: This Friday (Oct. 23), the Saint Mary’s University Huskies football team will use pink tape when they get taped up for their home game against St. FX. The athletes hope to raise awareness of Breast Cancer research and raise needed funds in the fight against the disease. Other fundraising initiatives by the Huskies will be unveiled at the Huskies basketball home games (men’s and women’s) at The Tower on Nov. 13, as well as at the women’s hockey home game at the Alumni Arena on Nov. 27.
Saint Mary’s University announced today that men’s hockey coach Trevor Stienburg has signed a five-year contract extension with the university. With 13 years behind the bench with the Huskies, Stienburg is the reigning ‘dean’ of AUS hockey coaches and has amassed a record of 182-121-24. He led the Hockey Huskies to two league championships, one in 2002 and most recently last season (2008-2009).
10/14/09 Moving forward Hockey Huskies have turned the page on heartbreaking setback at national tourney
THE SAINT MARY’S Huskies won’t let one game dictate their season.
Unfortunately that one game just happened to be the most important of the 2008-09 university men’s hockey campaign.
10/07/09 Kicker makes his point Huskies’ Palardy one boot away from AUS record for field goals
WITH HIS next field goal for the Saint Mary’s Huskies, likely Saturday night against the Mount Allison Mounties in Moncton, Truro’s Justin Palardy will stand alone in the AUS record book.
The Canadian mark is in view.
10/03/09 Huskies top plucky Mounties Palardy ties AUS Career Field Goal Record with 56
It hasn’t all been pretty, but the Saint Mary’s Huskies are 3-1.
The CIS ninth-ranked Husk ies, behind in every game this year, rallied to overpower the Mount Allison Mounties 47-18 Friday night in AUS football be fore 3,200 fans at Huskies Stadi um. Mount Allison is winless in four.
09//07 Huskies win Don Wells Tournament with 10-6 victory Four unanswered goals in third pushes Huskies past Axemen
(Wolfville, NS) The Saint Mary's Huskies captured the 2009 Don Wells Memorial Tournament championship on four unanswered goals in the third period . Huskie Colby Pridham opened the third period on a breakaway goal while short handed.
09/27/09 In the nick of time SMU beats Sherbrooke on last-second TD
IT’S HARD TO KNOW HOW GOOD the Saint Mary’s Huskies are in 2009 after three games. But it’s clear they are resilient.
The Huskies trailed the Sherbrooke Vert et Or twice on Saturday at Huskies Stadium before scoring a touchdown with six seconds left in the game for a 26-23 win in interlocking football with the Quebec conference.
09/20/09 Huskies get rolling 38 - 10 win over Axemen
The Saint Mary’s Huskies got it going on both sides of the ball Saturday and that spelled trouble for the Acadia Axemen.
The CIS No. 10 Huskies, with 515 yards of offence to 152 for Acadia, evened their AUS football record at 1-1 with a 38-10 win over the Axemen at Raymond Field in Wolfville. The Axemen are also 1-1.
Nothing short of a trip to the Vanier Cup this November in Quebec City will satisfy the 2009 edition of the Saint Mary’s Huskies.
Ranked No. 4 in the nation entering their season opener, the reigning two-time conference champions believe they have some unfinished business after losing 28-12 in the national semifinals last November on the road against the Western Ontario Mustangs.
09/01/09 Keeping up with the Joneses Huskies backfield bolstered by brother tandem
AUS FOOTBALL defences had better get used to keeping up with the Joneses.
Brothers Tristan and Devon Jones of Edmonton — the sons of former CFL star running back Milson Jones — are settling into the Saint Mary’s Huskies backfield and threatening to make one of the top run offences in the CIS even better.
08/27/09 New look for AUS football Sophomore QB Jack Creighton gets No. 1 job with AUS-best Huskies
Much has changed in AUS football since the conference-champion Saint Mary’s Huskies lost on the road in a national semifinal last season to the Western Mustangs.
The Huskies will begin their chase for a conference three-peat with training camps around the conference opening Saturday.
