ATHLETE OF THE WEEK:

The Bishop's Gaiters Athletes of the Week are Olivier Genier of the Golf team and Katie Montelpare of the Women’s Soccer team.

Genier led the Gaiters and finished 9^th among individuals at the QSSF Golf Championship, held last weekend at the Deux-Montagnes Golf Club. Genier’s finish is the first top-20 finish for a Gaiter since Trevor Dunn finished 19^th in 2005. Genier shot 78-73-73 to finish with a four-round total of 300, 14 shots behind the leaders, Clément Herviou and Benoît Gordon’s.

Montelpare, a second-year defender from Montreal, was the Gaiters’ leader in their 1-0 loss at home to Sherbrooke on Friday afternoon. Her leadership and strong tackling on the Gaiters’ back line helped Bishop’s bottle up the powerful Sherbrooke attack.

HONOUR ROLL:

• Tim Cronk, Football – Scored first career touchdown on Saturday vs. McGill
• Stefan Lemeiux, Men’s Rugby – Gaiters’ Man of the Match on Friday
• Sue Magwood, Women’s Rugby – Gaiters’ Player of the Game on Friday vs. Laval
• Becky Yates, Women’s Soccer – Made six saves in Gaiters’ 1-0 loss to Sherbrooke
• Joe Laleune, Lacrosse – Led Gaiters with four points (3G, 1A) on Thursday vs. McGill
• Jermaine Gabriel, Football – Led Gaiters with seven tackles (6 solo, 2 assisted) on Saturday
• Jacquie Laidler, Women’s Rugby – Continued strong defensive performance on Friday vs. Laval
• Ryan Lethbridge, Men’s Rugby – Scored two tries against Sherbrooke
• Jesse Andrews, Football – Threw for one touchdown and ran for another on Saturday
• Jesse Gattelaro, Lacrosse – Scored game-winning goal on Thursday vs. McGill
•  “The Pack”, Women’s Rugby – Strong play moving the ball forward against Laval
• Keegan Durovick, Lacrosse – Picked up fifth straight win for Gaiters on Thursday night.
• Billy Murphy, Men’s Rugby – Scored 12 points (3 converts, 2 penalty goals) on Friday night

FOOTBALL (1-4, T-5th QUFL)
Anderson’s last-minute field goal gives Redmen 21-19 victory over Gaiters

SATURDAY:McGILL 21, GAITERS 19 – Click here for full release
LENNOXVILLE – Austin Anderson’s 28-yard field goal with 41 seconds left gave the McGill Redmen a 21-19 victory over the Bishop’s Gaiters in Quebec University Football League action this afternoon at Coulter Field. A rain-soaked Homecoming crowd of 2,570 saw a game that featured four lead changes, with both teams having chances to win in the last three minutes.

UP NEXT: The Gaiters are idle this week. They return to action on Saturday, October 17, as they visit the St. Francis Xavier X-Men in their only interlock game of the year.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL (0-0)
Gaiters women’s basketball season opens at Alberta Pandas Hoopfest

Women’s Basketball’s 25-game schedule gets underway this week with a trip to Edmonton for the Alberta Pandas Hoopfest. The Gaiters will face the Alberta Pandas, the Regina Cougars and the Windsor Lancers over the Thanksgiving long weekend.

A full season preview will be posted to the Gaiters’ website later this week

WOMEN’S SOCCER (1-6-1, 7th QUSL)
Gaiters suffer narrow Homecoming loss to Sherbrooke

FRIDAY: SHERBROOKE 1, GAITERS 0
The Gaiters fell 1-0 to the Sherbrooke Vert & Or in the evening's first contest. Sherbrooke held the early edge in play, and Chloé Belhumeur-Limoges broke through and deked around the Gaiters' Becky Yates to net her sixth goal of the season. Her goal in the 16th minute held up as the winner, as the defences took hold from that point. Yates, making her second straight start in goal for the Gaiters, made six saves and was named the Player of the Game. Belhumeur-Limoges took the honours for Sherbrooke.

UP NEXT: The Gaiters have only one game this week as they visit Sherbrooke (5-1-0) for the return match of the home-and-home series. The Gaiters and Vert et Or will face off on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the U de S stadium.

MEN’S RUGBY (1-3, 3rd QURU)
Gaiters hit the win column with shutout of Sherbrooke

FRIDAY: GAITERS 32, SHERBROOKE 0:
Men's Rugby picked up their first win of the season in emphatic fashion with a 32-0 shutout of the Sherbrooke Vert et Or. The Gaiters dominated from the opening kickoff, as the pack moved the ball downfield quickly, and Matt Pereira put the ball down in the third minute to open the scoring. Billy Murphy's conversion, the first of his three, put Bishop's up 7-0 with only four minutes gone. Ryan Lethbridge scored the only other try in the first half, while a 38-yard penalty goal by Murphy on the stroke of halftime gave Bishop's a 17-0 lead. Jamie Le Huquet and Lethbridge scored second-half tries for the Gaiters, while a second Murphy penalty goal rounded out the scoring.

UP NEXT: The Gaiters are idle this week, but return to action on Sunday, October 18 when they visit Sherbrooke.

WOMEN’S RUGBY (0-4, T-5th QURU)
Gaiters fall to Laval at Homecoming

FRIDAY: #4 LAVAL 50, GAITERS 3:
The Gaiters fell 50-3 to the No. 4-ranked Laval Rouge et Or. Laval held the advantage early, as they scored seven first-half tries en route to a 40-0 halftime lead. Élie Papineau and Karen Paquin each scored two tries for Laval, while Frédérique Saucier, Catherine Carrier, Onienté K.Laflamme and Claudiane Renaud each scored one. Renaud was good on five of eight conversions. The Gaiters broke the shutout in the 73rd minute when Sue Magwood connected on a penalty goal - marking the first points scored by Bishop's against Laval since 2006.

UP NEXT: The Gaiters host the Sherbrooke Vert et Or (0-4) on Thursday night. Sherbrooke has also lost their opening four games, including a 111-5 defeat at the hands of Laval. Kickoff at Coulter Field is set for 8 p.m.

GOLF (1958, 8th QSSF)
Golf finishes 8^th overall, Genier cracks the Top Ten

Golf’s season came to a close last week at the QSSF Provincial Championships in Deux Montagnes. On the team front, the Gaiters were unable to make up ground on the teams ahead of them, and remained in eighth place overall.

Individually, Olivier Genier led the Gaiters, as he shot 78-73-73 to finish with a four-round total of 300, good for a tie for 9^th place, 14 strokes behind the champion, Clément Herviou of Laval. The only other Gaiter to make the cut was Alex Aubry, who finished 34^th with a four-round total of 329. James Laing shot 80-82 to finish in 42^nd spot, while Dane Fitzpatrick was tied for 44^th and Mark Warnholtz finished 58^th.

UP NEXT: The 2009 Golf season has concluded.

LACROSSE (5-1, 1st CUFLA East)
Gaiters edge McGill in defensive struggle

THURSDAY: GAITERS 7, McGILL 6
After the previous weekend’s goal-fest, it was much tougher sledding for the Gaiters’ attack on Thursday night. The Gaiters led 4-2 after three quarters, before McGill scored three goals to tie the game at 5-5 with just under eight minutes to play. Mike Dubé’s power-play goal with 4:03 to go broke the tie, while Jesse Gattelaro’s goal with 2:31 left proved to be the winner. McGill scored with 2:00 left to cause some nail-biting on the Bishop’s bench, but the Gaiter defence held on for the win. Joe Laleuene led the Gaiters with four points (3G, 1A), while Dubé scored twice, and André Laleune and Gattellaro had one goal each. Keegan Durovick picked up the win, as he faced 19 shots.

UP NEXT: The Gaiters are off for the Thanksgiving long weekend. They return to action on Saturday, October 17, with an exhibition game against the Oshawa Blue Knights U-19.

THIS WEEK’S SCHEDULE: (All times Eastern)

Wednesday, October 7

• Women's Soccer at Sherbrooke, 7 p.m., Sherbrooke

Thursday, October 8

• Women's Rugby vs. Sherbrooke, 8 p.m., Coulter Field

Friday, October 9

•  Women’s Basketball at Alberta, 10 p.m., Edmonton, Alta. (Alberta Pandas Hoopfest)

Saturday, October 10

• Women’s Basketball vs. Regina, 10 p.m., Edmonton, Alta. (Alberta Pandas Hoopfest)

Sunday, October 11

•  Women’s Basketball vs. Windsor, 2 p.m., Edmonton, Alta. (Alberta Pandas Hoopfest)