Bottom-seeded host teams advance to U Sports women's and men's hockey finals

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Mar 23, 2025 10:01 AM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

The Waterloo Warriors person precocious to the Miller Waste U Sports women's hockey title last with a 5-1 semifinal triumph implicit the fifth-seeded Concordia Stingers connected Saturday astatine Woolwich Memorial Centre successful Elmira, Ont.

Brodi Levitt scored doubly and added 2 assists for the eighth-seeded Warriors, who volition play the third-seeded Bishop's Gaiters successful Sunday's final. The Gaiters edged the Toronto Varsity Blues 2-1 successful Saturday's different semifinal.

Gracey Smith, Kassidy McCarthy and Madison Pritchard besides scored for the Warriors. McCarthy besides had 2 assists.

Alexandra-Anne Boyer scored for the Stingers, who were outshot 32-27.

The Stingers went 0-for-1 connected the powerfulness play, portion the Warriors were 0-for-3.

Marjorie Bolduc and Noemie Fontaine each had a extremity and assistance for the Gaiters, who scored some of their goals connected the powerfulness play. Justine Turcotte had 2 assists.

Ashley Delahey scored for the second-seeded Varsity Blues, who were outshot 36-26. The Blues went 0-for-6 connected the powerfulness play, portion the Gaiters were 2-for-4.

The Gaiters led 1-0 aft the archetypal play and 2-0 heading into the third.

The Varsity Blues and Stingers volition play successful Sunday's bronze-medal game.

Ottawa, Concordia reach men's final

Mitch Martin's 2nd extremity of the game, scored astatine 19:18 of the 3rd period, lifted the underdog Ottawa Gee-Gees past the Toronto Metropolitan Bold 4-3 connected Saturday successful the archetypal semifinal of the men's title astatine TD Place successful Ottawa.

The Gee-Gees, seeded eighth headed into the tournament, volition look the third-seeded Concordia Stingers successful Sunday's final. The Stingers bushed the second-seeded Saskatchewan Huskies 3-0 successful Saturday's different semifinal.

Bradley Chenier and Vincent Labelle besides scored for the Gee-Gees, who led 1-0 aft the archetypal play and 3-2 heading into the third.

Jordan D'Intino, Ian Martin and Tyler Savard scored for the Bold, who volition play the Huskies for bronze connected Sunday.

Franky Lapenna made 30 saves for the Gee-Gees, portion Kai Edmonds had 25 saves for the Bold.

The Gee-Gees went 1-for-3 connected the powerfulness play, portion the Bold were 0-for-1.

Julien Anctil scored doubly and Alexandre Nadeau added a azygous arsenic the Stingers scored 3 times successful the 3rd play to bushed the Huskies. Mathieu Bizier chipped successful with 2 assists.

Nikolas Hurtubise made 19 saves to registry the shutout.

The Stingers outshot the Huskies 30-19.

Sunday's games volition beryllium broadcast unrecorded connected CBC Sports integer platforms (CBCSports.ca, CBC Gem, CBC Sports YouTube channel) in English. For the afloat CBC Sports broadcast schedule, click here.

In French, the games volition beryllium carried connected Radio Canada's integer platforms, with the gold-medal games to beryllium aired connected TVA Sports.