With a 2-0 win over the University of Toronto Varsity Blues Sunday, the U of M Bisons women’s hockey team earned a fifth-place finish at the U Sports national women’s hockey championship.

For the first time in program history, the University of Guelph Gryphons are national women’s hockey champions. In a back-and-forth affair Sunday, fifth-year Valerie Lamenta…

Typically, when you ask an athlete what other sports they played growing up, you expect to hear about volleyball, basketball or even track — but not barrel racing.

With the University of Guelph Gryphons and University of Montreal Carabins already set to play each other in the U Sports national women’s hockey championship semifinals, the other matchup was set Friday.

With the win, Montreal books a date with the University of Guelph Gryphons in round two, while the Panthers will meet the U of M in the consolation round.

Everyone in Bell Aliant Centre blinked and the U of M Bisons women’s hockey team’s bid for a national championship repeat was over in a…