“The opportunity that is in front of us on Saturday is to go compete for the OUA championship and to defend our OUA title. “The road to a national championship looks very different for OUA 1 than OUA 2,” Valley said. 9, also in Guelph.Īfter Saturday’s game, Queen’s and Guelph will only have four days to prepare for the U Sports championship. 19 and 31-3 win in a regular-season clash on Oct.

Queen’s has defeated the Gryphons twice this season - 17-14 in an exhibition game win in Guelph on Sept. “Training for the OUA championship is our last major block of time to drill down on the things we need to tighten up for the U Sports championship as well, so we’re in the midst of a really good training week and we’ll be ready to rock and roll in the OUA final,” said Valley, who is in his third season with the Gaels and was named OUA East coach of the year earlier this week. at Nixon Field, with the outcome of the game determining the seeding of the two OUA teams at nationals. Queen’s plays Guelph on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

Although the Gaels are guaranteed a spot in the nationals, their focus this weekend, however, is on Guelph, their opponent in the Ontario University Athletics championship game, coach Dan Valley said.

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