for the OUA bronze medal on Sunday afternoon at Toronto’s Back Campus Fields
Seyran Mammadov
2
Winner York YORK (8-3, 8-2)
1
Toronto TORONTO (9-1, 9-0)
Winner
York YORK
(8-3, 8-2)
2
Final
1
Toronto TORONTO
(9-1, 9-0)
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 OT1 OT2 SO F
York YORK 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2
Toronto TORONTO 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

Game Recap: Field Hockey |

LIONS RALLY LATE TO BEAT BLUES IN PENALTY SHOOTOUT, BRING HOME OUA BRONZE

After a devastating loss to the Guelph Gryphons on Saturday in the OUA semi-final, the York University Lions field hockey team took on the Toronto Varsity Blues – who fell in a stunning loss to the Waterloo Warriors in the other semi – for the OUA bronze medal on Sunday afternoon at Toronto's Back Campus Fields. 

The Lions and Blues meet in the post-season for a third consecutive year, with the last two being OUA championship games, which the teams split, with both squads winning on the other team's turf. 

This Varsity Blues took just over four minutes to open the scoring. It came off a penalty corner, as the Blues set up the play well, and it was finished off by McKinley Kennedy at the side of the Lions cage to make it 1-0 in favour of the Blues. 

The game went scoreless for the remainder of the first half and the third quarter, sending the match to the fourth quarter with the Blues still clinging to a 1-0 lead. However, just over a minute into the final frame, the Lions took advantage of a penalty corner of their own. After the corner was played in, Jewel Lew set up Kathryn Carlow, who spun and fired one that eluded Deepi Gill. York's first goal against Toronto in three matches this year tied the game at one. 

The rest of the fourth quarter solved nothing, as did overtime, and for the second day in a row, a penalty shootout would be needed to decide a winner. York's Tessa Wang – their lone goal scorer in Saturday's semi-final – shot first, and trickled one past Gill to make it 1-0 Lions. Toronto's Maggie Mullens was stopped by Jade Lew on the Blues first attempt and the Lions led through one round of the shootout. They would double that when Carlow buried her shot to make it 2-0 York.  

On Toronto's next attempt, Kirsten D'Silva broke in and rolled one off the post and out. The near miss kept the Blues off the board and gave the Lions a chance to go up 3-0, which they did thanks to Abby Thompson, who came in on Gill, spun and put it home, putting the Blues on the brink. Needing to score to keep her team alive, Molly Koop couldn't outwait Lew, and the York netminder got her toe on the shot, sending it wide and clinching the OUA bronze medal for the Lions. 

LOOKING AHEAD: 

The Lions will now prepare to host the Field Hockey Canada U SPORTS Invitational Championship from Oct. 31-Nov. 3. Stay tuned to yorkulions.ca for the official tournament schedule. 

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