Farewell Class of 2012

The post graduate Sports Journalism Class of 2012 has finished their work at Loyalist College in Belleville, Ontario and is off to spend the next month on their internships.  Students are required to arrange their own internship.  They have all been successful in finding a place to polish the skills they've learned in the past 24 weeks of the Sports Journalism program.
It has been a pleasure working with our student journalists and we are looking forward to hearing positive things about the futures in their chosen careers.
Now we prepare for the class of 2013 that will be arriving on the doorstep of the college in September.

Successful season ends at Seneca for Lady Lancers

Lancer guard/forward Diane Bauder
drives to the net around a defending
Seneca player in the second half.

by Shawn McLeish

The Loyalist Lancers women’s basketball team began the season with a singular goal:  To make it to the Ontario Colleges Athletic Association (OCAA) championships.  In order to achieve that goal, they had to beat the Niagara Knights in a playoff game at the Lancer Dome.

Through three quarters, the Lancers prospects looked bleak.  They were down 40-34 and had yet to even have a lead in the game.  Enter Dianne Bouder.  Bouder, a fifth-year forward, was playing her final game at Loyalist.  The Lancers teams she had played on the past two seasons won a combined five games.  She had never been to the OCAA’s before and wasn’t about to let her final chance slip away.

The Lancers began to chip away at the Niagara lead until they were within two.  Bouder, a Cannifton native, coolly received a pass from point guard Martine Gauvin and drained her second consecutive three-pointer to give the Lancers their first lead of the game.  Less than five minutes remained and Loyalist never relinquished that lead.  Bouder and second-year guard Haley Sisler led the team with 12 points each.  Center Samantha Goff added an astounding 16 rebounds in the win.