Ravens aiming for 3-peat against Huskies in U Sports women's basketball final rematch

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Mar 16, 2025 9:08 AM EDT | Last Updated: 12 minutes ago

The Carleton Ravens tin triumph a 3rd consecutive nationalist rubric connected Sunday erstwhile they look the top-seeded Saskatchewan Huskies successful the U Sports women's hoops Final 8 title crippled astatine UBC's War Memorial Gymnasium successful Vancouver.

The Ravens punched their summons to the title rematch showdown with an 84-60 triumph implicit the Ottawa Gee-Gees successful Saturday night's semifinals, portion the Huskies dunked the big UBC Thunderbirds 85-63.

The Ravens successfully defended their title with a 70-67 triumph implicit the Huskies successful past year's gold-medal game.

In the men's tournament, the University of Victoria Vikes volition play the Calgary Dinos successful the title final, portion the top-seeded Ottawa Gee-Gees and University of P.E.I. Panthers play successful the bronze-medal game.

Andrea Dodig scored 19 points and hauled successful 3 rebounds arsenic the Huskies dunked the Thunderbirds successful the archetypal women's semifinal crippled of the night.

Ella Murphy Wiebe chipped successful with 15 points and 9 rebounds, portion Gage Grassick had 12 points and 5 rebounds for the Huskies, who led 49-27 astatine halftime implicit the tourney hosts.

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Mona Berlitz pb the Thunderbirds with 15 points and 4 rebounds, portion Sara Toneguzzi had 11 points and Sofia Berman added 9 and 5 rebounds.

Saskatchewan dominated successful tract goals, making 51.6 per cent of their shots, portion UBC finished astatine 35 per cent. The hosts had 22 turnovers and were outrebounded 44 — 30. Saskatchewan's seat outscored UBC 29-21.

In the precocious game, Teresa Donato led the Ravens with 17 points, portion Tatyanna Burke had 16 and 9 rebounds. Natsuki Szczokin led the Gee-Gees with 12 points, portion Bailey Russell added 11.

The Ravens led 46-19 astatine halftime, but the Gee-Gees outscored them 26-13 successful the 3rd quarter.

Carleton had a flimsy borderline successful tract extremity percent (45.6 to 43.4), but owned the boards with 44 rebounds. The Gee-Gees had much turnovers (24-19) and were outscored connected the seat 36-26.

The Thunderbirds play the Ottawa Gee-Gees successful Sunday's bronze-medal game.

Alberta 64, Laval 38

(Fifth-place women's game)

Forward Claire Signatovich scored 16 points and pulled successful 15 rebounds arsenic the Alberta Pandas dunked Laval Rouge et Or 64-38 successful the women's fifth-place crippled connected Saturday astatine War Memorial Gymnasium.

Annacy Palmer pitched successful with 12 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists for the Pandas, who led 31-17 astatine halftime.

The Pandas changeable 44.2 per cent from the tract and 50 per cent from three-point range, portion their defence held the Rouge astatine Or to conscionable 19.2 per cent shooting overall.

Sabrine Khelifi led Laval with 8 points and 11 rebounds. Julia Denis had 7 points and 5 rebounds. The Rouge astatine Or changeable 3.1 per cent from three-point scope and turned the shot implicit 20 times.

Concordia 87, UBC 80

(Fifth-place men's game)

The No. 8-seeded Concordia Stingers upset the fourth-seeded UBC Thunderbirds 87-80 successful Saturday's fifth-place crippled successful the U Sports men's Final 8 tournament.

Alec Phaneuf finished with a game-high 31 points for the Stingers, including 7 three-pointers, portion Jaheem Joseph added 19 points and 4 three-pointers.

The Thunderbirds, contempt a beardown effort, struggled to support gait with Concordia's sharpshooting. UBC's Gus Goerzen led the squad with 17 points, including 5 three-pointers, and Brendan Sullivan contributed 18 points.