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Gaiters basketball teams inactive for reading week as ski team set to travel to Le Relais

Feb. 23, 2006 – While both the men's and women's basketball teams will be on hiatus for reading week as they prepare for the QUBL playoffs, the Bishop's ski team will be in action this weekend when they travel to Le Relais to compete in two slalom competitions.

Women's Basketball
Rod Gilpin's Lady Gaiter squad finished the 2005-2006 season with a record of 13-3. Bishop's has been especially dominant since the Christmas break, having won 10 of their 12 conference games since January, guaranteeing themselves home-court advantage in the semi-finals in the process. Bishop's will most likely finish the season in second place in the five team conference unless first-place Laval losses both of their weekend games.

The Lady Gaiters will spend their reading week preparing for their semi-final matchup against either UQAM or McGill on Wednesday, March 1st at 7:00 p.m.

Men's Basketball
After splitting last weekends games against UQAM and McGill, the Bishop's Gaiters men's basketball team finishes the season with a 9-7 record, a significant improvement over last seasons 3-13 finish.

Currently ranked third in the QUBL, Bishop's has to hope for either Concordia or McGill to defeat the Laval Rouge et Or this weekend in order for the Gaiters to finish the season in second place.

While the Gaiters final ranking may still be undetermined, one thing that is for sure is that Bishop's will face Laval in the conference semi-finals on Friday, March 3rd. The location of the match will be based on which team finishes the season ranked second in the conference.

This season, Bishop's defeated the Rouge et Or in three out of four meetings.

Alpine Skiing
The fourth and second to last event on the Quebec university ski circuit will take place this weekend at the Le Relais ski resort in Quebec where two slalom competitions will be held.

The Lady Gaiters ski team will be helped by the return of rookie Jennifer Post (Prevessin-Moens, France) who was unable to compete at the last two events held at Sutton due to a virus. Post returns to action as the 13th ranked skier on the Quebec circuit.

Joining Post on the slopes will be teammates Lauren Bobby (Timmins, On), Jennifer Bertram (Vancouver, B.C.) and Katie Bruce (Dartmouth, Nova Scotia) who are currently ranked 4th, 7th and 10th respectively.

Slalom specialist and Lady Gaiter captain Alicia Wood (Aurora, On) will be hoping to pick up some much needed points this weekend after having only completed two races thus far.

Rookies Graham Carr (12th) of Calgary and Ian Snowsell (24th) of Banff are the top ranked Gaiter men on the Quebec circuit.