The McMaster Marauders traveled to Western University last Saturday to take on the Mustangs. The match showcased a clash of the two remaining undefeated teams in the OUA, ranking third (Western) and fourth (McMaster) in the CIS.
The first half featured a see-saw affair. Western jumped out to an 11-5 lead after the first quarter, but McMaster scored a touchdown and a field goal in the second to narrow the gap. Western led 17-15 by halftime.
McMaster's second quarter field goal was the 78th of kicker Tyler Crapigna's career, breaking the OUA record for most career field goals. The previous record of 77 was held by now Winnipeg Blue Bomber Lirim Hajrullahu. Crapigna added another tally in the fourth quarter to set the new record at 79.
Western stretched their lead to seven points before Marauders quarterback Marshall Ferguson found wide receiver Declan Cross for a two-yard touchdown pass. The Mustangs regained their lead early in the fourth quarter with a touchdown by wide receiver Shaquille Johnson and carried a four-point advantage into the final three minutes of the game.
Disaster struck for Western late in the fourth. Marauders defensive back Zachary Ismael picked off an errant pass from Western quarterback Will Finch, thus handing possession back to McMaster. The ensuing drive saw Ferguson systematically march the Marauders' offense down the field, capped off by a last-minute touchdown to wide receiver Max Cameron to secure the win.
The victory pushes McMaster's record to 6-0 on the year, whereas Western drops to 4-1. Ferguson collected 351 yards, tossing for three touchdowns. Running back Wayne Moore picked up 55 rushing yards and Cameron caught for 97 yards including the game-winning touchdown.
If McMaster can win-out the season - and with games against Laurier and Ottawa, that is a real possibility - Mac should be poised for a run through the playoffs while Western and Guelph may meet in semi-final action.
While most McMaster students spent their winter breaks at home, the Marauder’s women’s basketball team took their talents out east for exhibition action.
Mac had the opportunity to square off against three out-of-conference teams: the University of Victoria, Saint Mary’s University and Acadia University.
All three teams have been among the top of the women’s hoops crop, appearing in the Canadian Interuniversity Sport top-ten rankings. UVic and Acadia were voted in last year and Saint Mary’s currently holds the No. 1 ranking.
The Maroon and Grey went 2-1 on the East Coast swing, with the loss coming to SMU.
Being the first game action since the exam break, there is always the scare that a team could have some rust to knock off.
However, head coach Theresa Burns was impressed with how quickly her team got their legs under them.
“Somebody would miss a look or be a little late on a pass and then that was it. You didn’t see it again,” said Burns. “It was like ‘yup, got it, I know what I’m supposed to do.”
The highlight of the trip would come in the second game, as Mac went toe-to-toe with the SMU Huskies, but ultimately fell 65-59.
McMaster was only down one point at half and later found themselves down two in the fourth quarter before the No. 1 team pulled away.
It was the best performance of the season for the team, and reaffirmed what the coaching staff has been telling the squad since the summer.
“We had attention to detail, and we were understanding their personnel and how we wanted to play each individual on [Saint Mary’s]. We also figured out that if we run our own stuff, we can be a handful for any other team,” Burns said.
The seasoned coach also pointed to the continued dominance of guard Danielle Boiago and centre Hailey Milligan.
The duo combines for an average of 36.2 points per game – the highest scoring pair in the OUA.
What is particularly impressive about their offensive production is the efficiency. Boiago is shooting 46 per cent from the field after she shot 30 per cent as a rookie, and Milligan has bumped up her percentage from 48 per cent to 57 per cent – the top mark in the conference among players with at least 40 attempted field goals.
With the easier part of their schedule – that being games against the weaker OUA East – in the rear view, Mac cannot afford to make any mistakes for the remainder of the regular season.
“The in-between stuff, the day-to-day, is all about sticking to the process and not cutting corners. When you look at our league, the parity is just ridiculous. A 7-3 record, in most conferences, is good for first or second. For us, there is not going to be any ‘gimme games’, it will always be a battle,” said Burns on the upcoming months.
McMaster’s road to the playoffs will run through three teams who are 9-1: Western, Windsor and Laurier. The Maroon and Grey will have their first look at Windsor on Jan. 11, as a part of Marauder weekend. Tip-off is scheduled for 1 p.m.
With the penalty-kick viagra super active plus playoff loss to the UOIT Ridgebacks, the women’s soccer season that started with much promise has come to an abrupt end.
At the halfway point of the season, McMaster was 2-4-2, with two of those ties coming against nationally ranked opponents. But during the first of two matches against the Western Mustangs – and the eighth game of the season – team captain Sophia Ykema suffered a concussion. The team would manage a tie but lost control of the season without their leader.
Inconsistency became the weakness, with McMaster unable to sustain any momentum game-to-game. A game head coach Brett Mosen described as the “worst performance in my three-year career here” followed a solid outing on the road against the Windsor Lancers. McMaster took on a York team they were battling for playoff position, and won 2-1. The next day, they threw up a dud and lost 1-0 to the UOIT Ridgebacks, starting a three-game slide.
To call this a lost season would be sensationalizing it. A struggle through the second part of the jam-packed season is to be expected when your roster is comprised mostly of first- and second-year players. At the beginning of the season, both Mosen and Ykema had foresight to see that the level of physicality and number of games would take its toll on the younger players.
What they could not foresee however was the sheer number of injuries the team suffered. Ykema’s concussion recovery took a month instead of the typical two weeks, Taylor Davis suffered an ankle injury before the season opener and then injured her quad immediately after. Goalkeeper Brittany Duffey missed two games in early September. Stephanie Davis, who was second on the team in scoring, missed two games later in the year also.
Those injuries are all to players with at least a year of experience, so the missed games just compounded the growing pains for first-year players. But it will pay off in the future. Having games under the belt is a key to developing players. Watching from the sidelines has benefits, but getting in the action is arguably more important. For proof, you can look to the aforementioned group of players, who all gained on-field experience in their first year.
The end of the 2013 campaign marks the start of something. What that “something” turns out to be is in the hands of a team who saw their capabilities in the first eight games of the season. The ceiling for a squad of this age, with a captain who has two years of eligibility left, with a defensive group and goalkeeper who have an abundance of experience, with a rookie who is on the Rookie of the Year shortlist after leading the Maroon crew in goals, is a CIS national tournament berth. Anything less is to sell the accomplishments short.
The men’s soccer team is currently second in the nation and have sights set on a CIS championship. With the right amount of work, it should not be long before the women’s squad is in a similar situation.
In the short and compact rugby season, the Marauders have been able to pull off a record of 4-3.
This mediocre record does not do the Maroon and Grey justice however, as they are up against two of the most talented teams in the country – notably the Queen’s Gaels and the Guelph Gryphons.
“The OUA has some very good competition,” said veteran captain, Cindy Nelles.
Although the OUA is stacked with exceptional teams and talent, however, Nelles believes that the Marauders have improved throughout the season, and can continue to improve their record in seasons to come, so that they can compete with the more dominant teams in the CIS.
“We definitely have room for improvement. We made huge gains throughout the season, from day one to even half-way throughout the season… we’ve just been on a steady climb. If we can continue that habit into next season or pick up where we left off this season, I think we’ll be in good shape.”
Nelles thinks that the 4-3 record is decent right now, but if this begins to be a trend for McMaster heading into next season, she won’t be proud of it.
“I think that next year, if we have this record, I won’t be satisfied,” added Nelles.
The Marauders third loss on the record was due to the dominant Guelph Gryphons on Saturday, Oct. 19, where the Maroon and grey faced a tough loss to the visiting team.
But the game was not all bad for the Marauders, as they still managed to hold their ground against the Gryphons, and they kept the team’s score to the lowest score they had all season- 20-0.
This fate is similar to what the Marauder’s faced last year in the quarter-finals, except their loss was of a greater differential. They lost 72-0 to the Gryphon team last season.
But Nelles feels as though seeing the Gryphon team so often has allowed them to become a lot more familiar with the way the Gryphon system works, and their style of play.
“The more you face a team, the more you learn a little bit of how they play, that makes you train to how they play…then you think you’ve stepped up your game, and then they change their game. It is just this constant cat and mouse effect,” said Nelles.
The Marauders managed to match the Gryphons game a lot better this season than last however, which spoke volumes about the continual improvement of the team.
“I think that says something about our team, and even just improvements from last year to this year. We’ve made huge gains,” said the captain.
One of these gains is confidence, which Nelles believes only grew over-time with experience.
“Through getting experience in the OUA, building those games and getting the chemistry going, I think that we’re a much more confident team in our skills and capabilities. I think that has helped us execute a lot of what we want to do on the field.”
This confidence has grown out of the development of the players, and the change of a young team, to an older one.
“Last year, we were a very novice team comprised mainly of first and second years. Each year we are getting more and more experience and I just think that will be huge for us,” added Nelles.
Before the team looks too far ahead, however, Nelles knows that they need to concentrate on defeating the Western Mustangs for an OUA bronze medal on home territory, which is a match that Nelles thinks the Marauders bring a lot to the plate for.
“I think that we definitely have strength in our forwards. Our forwards have been able to produce a fairly good scrum. In the backs, we definitely have some smart players back there. There are a few girls that are very good at making decisions and can execute. We definitely have a very aggressive team. I think that will bode well for us.”
The Marauders will bring their aggression and experience to the anticipated match against Western on Saturday Oct. 26 on the Back Ten field, where they will hope to receive the bronze medal for the second year in a row.
Coach Dave Preston made it very clear. He does not believe in the early CIS top ten rankings, and what they say about his team.
“Rankings are a coaching poll, I don’t believe that it’s a true indicator of our performance level…I don’t think that rankings define our team.”
The CIS top ten rankings are viagra mail order comprised by the coaches within the league that vote for the teams that they believe are the best in the country, but they cannot vote for their own team.
Preston takes the Marauders third-place CIS ranking to open the season as a compliment from the other coaches, but he is unsure of how they got to be ranked in third spot, especially without any extensive knowledge of the team’s performance, or play, other than their match against Western that they won 3-2.
“I think it’s neat that we’re kind of considered to be one of the top three teams in the country right now, but again it’s a popularity poll…We played Western, beat them in five, and got ranked third in the country…Like how does that really work?” added Preston.
Despite Coach Preston’s view of the inaccuracy of the rankings, this past weekend, they were able to pull off an encouraging win over the second ranked team overall – the Trinity Western Spartans.
In this match, the Marauders took the game in five sets (3-2), but in the fourth set, the game began to look extremely familiar to their game played the previous night against the first-ranked Alberta Golden Bears.
The match against the Golden Bears on Oct. 18 saw the Marauders down 2-1, holding a lead with a score of 22-17 in the fourth set, before the Golden Bears pulled out of the set 25-19. McMaster ended up letting the game slip away from them, which gave the Golden Bears the 3-1 win.
The following night, the Marauders saw themselves in the exact same scenario as the night before: they were down 2-1, the score was 22-17 in the fourth set, but this time, the Marauders did not let the game slip away.
“The captains on our team recognize the scenario, know that we didn’t take advantage of it before, and put a huge conservative effort to say we need to make sure we take advantage of it in this one, and did, and ended up winning the match in five” said Preston on the courageous win.
In order for the Marauders to have won the match against the Golden Bears in a similar fashion to the way they won against the Spartans, Preston believes that the consistency and repetition of good serving and passing during the game would have given them an extra push against the dominant team.
“It was our serving and our passing that I guess kind of eroded if you want to put a term on it,” said Preston.
“Alberta just showed how they are a little bit more repeatable than we are right now…we know that we can pass a good ball and our lesson right now is to make sure we pass a good ball as often as possible, and especially when it counts, and so that’s what I think the difference is between us and Alberta right now.”
The Marauders learned a lot from their trip, finishing with a record of 2-1 in the tournament, which also included their win against the host team, the Calgary Dinos, which was a reassuring defeat for the Maroon and Grey, as they now know early on that they can play well on the road and can upset the home team in their own territory.
“Beating Calgary, in Calgary, was pretty good…we can play on the road,” said Preston.
The team is also more determined from the tournament, and wants to get on the court as much as possible to win some more games, and to work out the preseason kinks.
“One of the things you’re always a little bit concerned about as a coach is what your motivation is coming home from an event like this. And I think we probably are a little bit more motivated now than we were before we left. So, that’s a good thing for us,” said the coach.
The motivation that is also present for the team stems from some of the veteran players, and the captains of the team that Preston refers to as the “leadership council” that have taken some of the rookies under their wing.
This leadership council consists of Austin Campion-Smith, Jori Mantha, Tyson Alexander, Alex Elliot and Danny Demyanenko – five experienced players that have helped out and have mentored some of the rookies early on this season
“Our leadership council is tremendously influential, and leadership is very important,” said Preston.
“Each one of them kind of grabbed two guys, and they just go, so instead of one guy kind of being at the front of the pack and everybody else behind him it’s almost like one straight line and going on mass.”
The combination of leadership, incredible offense, and solid defence is what has made the Marauders so successful in the past, and it appears that it’s this same combination that continues to make them successful so far this season.
Despite the very early success, Coach Preston still has questions for the team that he expects to be answered throughout the duration of the season.
For his defense, it’s a question of endurance.
“Can we play defense? Yes. For how long, and when it counts? Those are going to be the questions.”
For his offense, it’s a question of repetition.
“Is our offense good? Yeah. Will it be better, and repeatable when it counts? That’s the question.”
The Marauders will look to provide a response for these questions in regular season action, which takes off on Friday, Oct. 25 in Windsor against the Lancers, and on Saturday, Oct. 26 in London against the Western Mustangs.
After coming off an encouraging pre-season run, one that the team had not been used to seeing, the Marauders were faced a familiar opponent in the OUA season opener.
Looking to administer some pay back against the Ryerson Rams was the main goal for the Marauders on the Oct. 19 match, which took place in Burridge Gym.
The start of the match was not exactly how the team planned to begin their journey to a win. The team fell viagra jelly for women behind early on with Ryerson taking a commanding 9-4 lead. At the technical timeout, the Rams continued to increase momentum as they crept up even further to a 16-5 lead over the Maroon and Grey. Ryerson would eventually close out the first set with a score of 25-13.
It was a different Marauder team seen to begin the second set as they took the lead this time with a score of 6-1. Their momentum would continue long into the final minutes of the second set as their marginal lead widened with the score sitting at 16-5 for McMaster.
McMaster would eventually get a bit of the payback they yearned for taking the second set 25-16 and tying the match at one a piece.
The third set would be the difference maker for either team, as it would put one of them ahead by one. The Marauders held on to an early 16-12 lead. After the technical timeout the Maroon momentum continued as they lead 19-17.
Ryerson started their comeback, pouncing on some passing errors from the Maroon contingent. The Rams would soon capitalize and take a short 21-20 lead. Ryerson would eventually regain their momentum and finish the set with a 25-23 win. Match now sat at 2-1 for Ryerson with the next set either giving a win for the Rams or the comeback for the Marauders.
With McMaster now trailing by one, this set would prove to be a crucial one for either team. The Marauders got in close, by a single point with the score sitting at 10-9. Ryerson would rev up their engines bringing the score in their favor with a 16-10 lead. Unfortunately, McMaster failed to make a comeback and fell to the Rams 25-16 in the fourth set, and lost the match 3-1.
Looking to the future of their season, it will be communication between players that will be a key component in helping the team to make and complete game winning plays.
“We are working on having constant communication from everyone on the team on and off the court,” said first-year player Melanie Walsh.
“Going into the season if we can have constant communication we all know we have the talent to compete for the OUA and CIS titles.”
A key player from the roster was missing against Ryerson, which could have proved to be a difference maker for the Marauder squad. Taylor Brisebois, a third-year middle blocker suffered an injury in the semifinal matchup against Waterloo is anxious to make a return to help out her Marauder hopefuls this season.
“I should be making a full recovery hopefully next week and then competing in the Toronto match here at McMaster,” said Brisebois.
With the hopes of key blocker Brisebois making a triumphant return to the squad the Marauders have their upcoming matches against Windsor and Western to use as the redemption they need to turn their season around.
The matches are set for this weekend, with games taking place on Oct. 25 and Oct. 26 before the team will make a return home to Burridge Gym to face the University of Toronto Varsity Blues on Nov. 2.
John Bauer
The Silhouette
For the second viagra buy online cheap year in a row, the outfield of Bernie Arbour stadium has been home to an All-Star. Following the lead of current coach Paul Saville, a 2012 centre-field All-Star and former teammate, this week it was announced that Travis Flint was voted best left-fielder in the game by a panel of the nine head coaches of the OUA men's baseball teams.
Flint, a Hamilton native and second-year commerce major, was an integral part of the Marauders baseball program this past season on both sides of the ball. After a solid rookie season last year in which he played seventeen games, the Marauders coaching staff played him a lot this year, as he appeared in all but one of McMaster's twenty-four games. Flint finished the year with the third highest batting average in the league at .390 and took the most at-bats for McMaster and third most in the league. He accounted for a stunning 22% of all of the McMaster runs to cross the plate and tied for the league lead at thirty-two hits, which was just less than one-fifth of the Marauder total for the year. He also stole sixteen bases, which was good for third in the league, and was only caught stealing twice.
Defensively, he led all left fielders with 33 putouts, and was nearly perfect with a .972 fielding percentage.
Likely up next for Flint is the OUA Baseball Showcase. Though the details have not been announced, the annual event pits the OUA All-Stars and some outstanding players who barely missed making the list against the reigning OUA baseball champions, the Laurier Golden Hawks, who won the OUA Championships in Guelph, Ont. on Oct. 20, 2013.
Coach Dave Preston was in Turkey just a month and a half ago, where he coached the Canadian Junior National Team to a 12th place finish, right behind the USA team. Now, he finds himself getting ready to hop on a plane to the confines of Calgary, Alta., to face some fierce Canada West competition for the Dino Cup in the Jacks Simpson Stadium at the University of Calgary.
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The team will get their start on Oct. 18, and for Coach Preston, the tournament will serve as practice for the core elements that the team will develop over time
“We could go three-and-oh, we could go oh-and-three, the difference in our performance for this might be minimum just because the competition is very, very good,” said Preston.
The competition in the Canada West Conference is so dominant, six out of the top ten teams in the CIS top ten rankings are from the west.
With this in mind, Preston is sure to concentrate more on the process of fine-tuning, and improving each game, than on the outcome of the matches or the tournament.
“We’re going to focus on our performance instead of our results… if we take care of our performances out there, then the wins will take care of themselves,” added Preston.
The focus on performance that Preston speaks of was especially present in the Marauders first preseason game against Western, where they managed to hold them off, and pull out an encouraging comeback late in the game.
The Marauders ability to regroup under pressure and remain collected to pull off the win was what Preston attributed to the overall character of his strong team.
“The thing I was most pleased about was their character; we were up two-zero, kind of got a little bit sidetracked, kind of lost our way…[we were] down in the fifth as well and still had the character to come and close it out. So that, that was refreshing. That was nice to see,” added Preston on the win.
The Marauders will try to carry their character over to Calgary this weekend, where they will be up against the Calgary Dinos, the Alberta Golden Bears, and the Trinity Western Spartans. Two of those teams – the Golden Bears and the Spartans, are ranked first and second respectively in the current CIS top ten rankings, while McMaster is ranked third.
Although the tournament is miles away, Coach Preston stresses that they will be using the tournament as a useful and educational stepping stone for the rest of the season.
For him, there are a couple of major advantages of going out west to play in such a competitive pre-season tournament.
“One of the things I think we do pretty well is information gathering; so I think we’re going to be able to get some good information on some teams that we don’t see very often,” said Preston.
“It’s going to give us a chance to do and try some things against teams that aren’t in our league all the time. So we don’t have to concern ourselves too much about someone getting too familiar with us to know what we’re doing.”
Another major advantage of going to the tournament in Calgary is the venue of the Jacks Simpson Stadium, which will be hosting the 2014 CIS Championships – a championship tournament that the Marauders will hope to compete in come February
“We get to play three matches in that gym, getting used to that environment, getting used to all the other stuff that comes along with the CIS Championship, that we won’t have to do for the first time, if we’re fortunate enough to get there” added Preston.
This is not just any trip for the Marauders; it is a trip of observation and note-taking for the team, as they will hope to come back to Calgary once again in a couple of months to fight for a national title.
“We’re not just taking the trip, we’re going to where we would like to go to again… so, this is a reconnaissance trip, we’re going in to do some recon, and see exactly what it’s going to take, and get very, very familiar with everybody.”
The Marauders will start getting very familiar with the west coast on Friday Oct. 18, when they take on the Calgary Dinos at 7:30 p.m.
William Lou
The Silhouette
The McMaster men’s soccer team kept the ball rolling last week with a pair of 2-0 victories against the Western Mustangs and the UOIT Ridgebacks.
Defender Kody Kazda opened the scoring in the 32nd minute against the Mustangs with his first goal of the season. The defensive line was solid for the Marauders, as they held Western’s offense to only three shots on target. Midfielder Nate Morris chipped in with an insurance goal in the 83rd minute to secure the win for the Maroon and Grey. Goalkeeper Angelo Cavalluzzo kept the Mustangs off the score sheet for the 2-0 shutout.
The Marauders then travelled to Oshawa, Ont. for a rematch with the UOIT Ridgebacks. Similar to their last meeting, Mac went on to capture a relatively easy-going 2-0 victory. McMaster dominated the play in the first half, generating 9 shots on goal. Defenseman Aleksandar Vincic opened the scoring in the 33rd minute with his first goal of the season. Striker Gersi Xhuti followed it up with another goal in the 45th minute, giving him the team lead in goals scored with 6 for the season. Cavalluzzo earned his third shutout in four games, saving all four shots on target en route to the victory.
The pair of victories last week puts the Marauders atop the heavily contested OUA West. McMaster’s 32 points in 14 games gives them the slight edge over the York Lions, who have earned 31 points in 13 games. Mac’s 32 points puts them only 2 points back of OUA leading Ryerson Rams.
However, despite their record, the Marauders are more focused on making the playoffs than anything else. Co-captain Paterson Farrell spoke of the possibility of leading the OUA, “coming first in the league would definitely be an accomplishment, because we've never done that before, but it's not a huge deal if we don't as long as we're playing our best by playoffs that's all that matters.”
He also praised goalkeeper Cavalluzzo and his defensive line, citing that “Angelo is a great goalie and I am never nervous when I see him back there. Along with the four defenders, they make our defense one of the best in the OUA…I can't wait to see them shut down CIS teams.” McMaster has allowed the fewest goals against per game, limiting their opponents to a mere 8 goals in 14 matches.
Farrell was also quick to dole out praise to his fellow strikers and midfielders. In particular, he complimented Xhuti and Morris, who have scored 6 and 5 goals respectively. “Gersi and Nate have definitely stepped up for us this year. Both of them work extremely hard and have an ability to find back of the net. When we need a clutch goal, those are two that we look to,” Farrell said.
With only two games remaining in the regular season, Farrell says that the goal is to “finish strong, hopefully with two wins.” Should they win their final two games of the season, the Marauders have an excellent shot at finishing atop the OUA.
The men’s soccer team will play their final regular season match at home on Oct. 19, when they take on the Brock Badgers at 3:15 p.m.
The McMaster Marauders football squad tore up the field in Waterloo, Ont. this past Saturday afternoon against the Laurier Golden Hawks. The Oct. 12 match saw the Marauders once again find success over their opponents, this time to the tune of 28-5.
With expectations continuing to mount weekly, the stakes continue to reach new heights. A playoff spot is not the only thing up for grabs, but also the opportunity to host a home playoff game.
The Carleton Ravens (0-7), a team returning to OUA football competition after a 15-year absence, is only remaining it is crucial for the team to continue to maintain their confidence in order to set the tone for playoffs.
“Momentum is everything in football so there is no problem getting motivated to play anyone, especially an up-and-coming Carleton program,” said quarterback Marshall Ferguson of the team’s opponents.
Ferguson set a new Marauder single-season record for touchdown passes in a season; tossing two touchdowns to reach a total of 20 this season with one game remaining. The third-year QB is aware of the team’s goals and that an effort is to be made in order to improve.
“We don't have concerns as an offence week-to-week, we have challenges that we need to prepare for on a day-to-day basis so that we can accomplish the goals we all have as a team,” Ferguson added.
“My focus is on improving every day both individually, as a team and an offence.”
Aram Eisho led the defense in tackles with a total of 12 on the day. The Marauders were able to keep the Golden Hawks out of the end zone, including three goal line stands in the fourth quarter.
With the playoffs in sight, the Marauders will once again face some of the top-ranked opponents who defeated them during the regular season.
Proving his leadership capabilities this season, Ferguson is well aware of the challenges these teams will provide.
“We have to get better in some way, every day between now and our eventual playoff opponents,” said the Kingston, Ont. native.
The Marauders now look to face some uphill battles, ones that will be the biggest they have come across this season. With key starters Joey Cupido and Matt Sewell still out of the lineup, the Maroon and Grey face the harsh reality of possibly entering the playoffs without their big guns.
With two down and one to go the Marauders are set to face Carleton on Oct. 19 in Ottawa, Ont. With the last of the do-or-die games approaching, the ninth-ranked Marauders hopes of hosting a playoff game.
