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


The Waterloo Warriors have advanced to the Miller Waste U Sports women’s hockey championship final with a 5-1 semifinal win over the fifth-seeded Concordia Stingers on Saturday at Woolwich Memorial Centre in Elmira, Ont.

Brodi Levitt scored twice and added two assists for the eighth-seeded Warriors, who will play the third-seeded Bishop’s Gaiters in Sunday’s final at 6 p.m. ET. The Gaiters edged the Toronto Varsity Blues 2-1 in Saturday’s other semifinal.

Gracey Smith, Kassidy McCarthy and Madison Pritchard also scored for the Warriors. McCarthy also had two assists.

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

The Stingers went 0-for-1 on the power play, while the Warriors were 0-for-3.

Marjorie Bolduc and Noemie Fontaine each had a goal and assist for the Gaiters, who scored both of their goals on the power play. Justine Turcotte had two assists.

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

The Gaiters led 1-0 after the first period and 2-0 heading into the third.

The Varsity Blues and Stingers will play in Sunday’s bronze-medal game at 2 p.m. ET.

Ottawa, Concordia reach men’s final

Mitch Martin’s second goal of the game, scored at 19:18 of the third period, lifted the underdog Ottawa Gee-Gees past the fourth-seeded Toronto Metropolitan Bold 4-3 on Saturday in the first semifinal of the men’s championship at TD Place in Ottawa.

The Gee-Gees, seeded eighth headed into the tournament, will face the third-seeded Concordia Stingers in Sunday’s final at 5 p.m. ET. The Stingers beat the second-seeded Saskatchewan Huskies 3-0 in Saturday’s other semifinal.

Bradley Chenier and Vincent Labelle also scored for the Gee-Gees, who led 1-0 after the first period and 3-2 heading into the third.

Jordan D’Intino, Ian Martin and Tyler Savard scored for the Bold, who will play the Huskies for bronze on Sunday at 11 a.m. ET.

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

The Gee-Gees went 1-for-3 on the power play, while the Bold were 0-for-1.

Julien Anctil scored twice and Alexandre Nadeau added a single as the Stingers scored three times in the third period to beat the Huskies. Mathieu Bizier chipped in with two assists.

Nikolas Hurtubise made 19 saves to register the shutout.

The Stingers outshot the Huskies 30-19.

Sunday’s games will be broadcast live on CBC Sports digital platforms (CBCSports.ca, CBC Gem, CBC Sports YouTube channel) in English. For the full CBC Sports broadcast schedule, click here.

In French, the games will be carried on Radio Canada’s digital platforms, with the gold-medal games to be aired on TVA Sports.



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