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Page 42 The <strong>OSCAR</strong> - OUR 38 DEC 2011<br />
th YEAR<br />
By Joe Scanlon<br />
In US professional baseball the<br />
team from the league that wins the<br />
annual all-star game gets home<br />
field advantage in the seven-game<br />
championship final known as the<br />
“World Series”. That means that team<br />
gets to play four of the seven games in<br />
the tournament on its home field.<br />
Many sports specialists were<br />
arguing that this year home field was<br />
a distinct advantage for the St. Louis<br />
Cardinals who came from down 3-2 to<br />
win at home.<br />
In some sports home field clearly<br />
is an advantage.<br />
In hockey for example, there is an<br />
advantage to a team that knows things<br />
like the way the puck bounces off the<br />
boards. There is also very specific<br />
advantage in that the home team is<br />
allowed to substitute last making it<br />
easier for the home coach to match<br />
lines. In all sports, it is seen to be an<br />
advantage to have the support of the<br />
home crowd.<br />
None of this seems to work however<br />
for the Carleton men’s soccer<br />
Ravens.<br />
In 1984, Carleton hosted the Canadian<br />
university championship final<br />
on its home field and lost to University<br />
of British Columbia in a shootout.<br />
In 2002 Carleton hosted the national<br />
championship tournament and<br />
reached the final – and lost to Brock<br />
University.<br />
That loss had an ironic twist.<br />
Carleton was automatically in the<br />
tournament as host but the Ravens also<br />
qualified; so the host slot was awarded<br />
to another Ontario team – Brock – and<br />
Brock went on to defeat Carleton.<br />
This season the male soccer<br />
Ravens finished first in their division<br />
– Ontario East – giving them a bye in<br />
the first round of the playoffs and the<br />
Carleton Varsity<br />
Sports Schedule<br />
Men’s Hockey<br />
Friday, <strong>December</strong> 2nd -- Concordia at Carleton<br />
Saturday, <strong>December</strong> 3rd -- Trois Rivière<br />
at Carleton<br />
Women’s Hockey<br />
No games scheduled in <strong>December</strong><br />
Men’s and Women’s Basketball<br />
Friday, <strong>December</strong> 2nd – Waterloo at Carleton<br />
Saturday, <strong>December</strong> 3rd -- Wilfrid Laurier<br />
at Carleton<br />
Carleton Sports<br />
Men’s, Women’s Soccer Lose in Playoffs<br />
right to host the Ontario tournament.<br />
In their first playoff game – played<br />
at home – the Ravens fell behind 1-0<br />
but came back to score four consecutive<br />
goals and eliminate Laurentian<br />
University.<br />
In the Ontario semi-final, the<br />
Ravens again fell behind 1-0 but<br />
again came from behind and led 2-1<br />
with seconds left in the 90th and final<br />
minute of regulation time. But Mark<br />
Reilly of McMaster scored in that<br />
90th minute making it 2-2. Neither<br />
team could score in two 15-minute<br />
overtime periods.<br />
That sent the game into another<br />
shoot-out. Sam McHugh the first<br />
Carleton player to shoot hit the crossbar.<br />
McMaster made all five shots.<br />
Carleton made the next four. Carleton<br />
was eliminated 5-4.<br />
It was the sixth consecutive time<br />
the male soccer Ravens have reached<br />
the final four and failed to go any further.<br />
Four times the team was eliminated<br />
in overtime or on penalty kicks.<br />
Only in 2005-6 did Carleton qualify<br />
for the national championship tournament<br />
which was played at and won by<br />
UBC.<br />
Carleton wasn’t the only Ontario<br />
team to have a sad ending to the season.<br />
York Lions came to the Ontario<br />
final four as the # 1 team in Canada,<br />
a team that had conceded only eight<br />
goals during the regular season, the<br />
best defensive record in the country.<br />
The Lions were not only beaten, they<br />
were walloped 4-1 by University of<br />
Toronto.<br />
Although McMaster – by beating<br />
Carleton – and Toronto – with its win<br />
over York – qualified to represent Ontario<br />
at the Canadian Interuniversity<br />
Sport (CIS) championships in Victoria,<br />
McMaster lost to Cape Breton<br />
2-1 and Toronto lost to Alberta 2-1 in<br />
By Sarah Jane Fraser<br />
the first round of the championship<br />
tournament.<br />
Carleton women’s soccer team<br />
was also eliminated in the Ontario<br />
playoffs – but not at home.<br />
The women downed Laurentian<br />
4-1 at Carleton in the first round of<br />
the playoffs but were eliminated 3-0<br />
by fourth ranked Queen’s at Queen’s.<br />
Queen’s went on to qualify for the CIS<br />
women’s championships and ending<br />
up playing <strong>Ottawa</strong> U – a team Carleton<br />
had never been able to beat – in<br />
the National semi-finals and defeated<br />
<strong>Ottawa</strong> 1-0 (on penalty kicks) to make<br />
it to the championship final. <strong>Ottawa</strong><br />
went on defeat McGill 2-0 and win<br />
the bronze medal. Queen’s went on to<br />
defeat Montreal Carabins to win the<br />
CIS championship. Carleton had been<br />
eliminated by a team that then went all<br />
the way.<br />
Basketball<br />
Although the university soccer<br />
season is over basketball’s regular<br />
season is just getting started and the<br />
Carleton men and women Ravens<br />
both started the regular season as two<br />
of the top-ranked teams in Canada.<br />
The men – who won their seventh<br />
CIS championship in nine years in<br />
Halifax in March – went through the<br />
exhibition pre-season without a loss.<br />
They were ranked # 1 when the first<br />
rankings came out earlier this month.<br />
The women – who made it to the<br />
CIS championships for the first time<br />
ever last March – had one pre-season<br />
loss, 61-56 to top-ranked Regina.<br />
(Regina also defeated the defending<br />
CIS champions Windsor, walloping<br />
the Lancers 84-61. Windsor however<br />
is ranked second.) Carleton started<br />
the season ranked third, their highest<br />
ranking ever.<br />
The men and women opened<br />
the regular season at McMaster and<br />
Step 1. Pick as many chokecherries as you can<br />
reach. Rinse them, picking out any twigs and<br />
leaves, and dump the cherries in a big pot.<br />
Step 2. If your pot is not full (full being up to<br />
2 inches from the top of the pot) go find some<br />
crab apples, wash them, cut them in half and put<br />
enough of them in the pot so that it is full.<br />
Crab apples are great to stretch the chokecherries<br />
and also because there is a lot of pectin in the<br />
skin. I don’t use commercial pectin in my jelly<br />
recipes so it’s handy to have some apple skin in<br />
the pot. The more crab apples you use, the harder<br />
the jelly will set. Because I don’t add extra pectin,<br />
some batches of my jelly just won’t set. If I<br />
am feeling stubborn, I re-boil until it does, other<br />
times I accept a more syrupy result.<br />
Step 3. Add water to the fruit, enough to just<br />
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Brock.<br />
The men struggled a bit before defeating<br />
McMaster but walloped Brock<br />
taking a 14-2 lead in the first quarter<br />
and cruising to victory.<br />
The women struggled in both<br />
cases defeating McMaster but losing<br />
by three to Brock. Carleton had beaten<br />
Brock in two per-season games but<br />
Brock in the first weekend of the regular<br />
season first defeated # 10 <strong>Ottawa</strong><br />
and then defeated Carleton. Brock<br />
had beaten # 1 Regina in its last preseason<br />
games. Brock was not ranked<br />
when the first rankings came out. That<br />
should change.<br />
Hockey<br />
Carleton’s men’s hockey team –<br />
after a good pre-season – started the<br />
regular season with two out-of-town<br />
losses, to Brock and Laurentian. But<br />
they came back to win eight of their<br />
next nine games, wins that include a<br />
shoot-out win over <strong>Ottawa</strong> U, an overtime<br />
win over Royal Military College<br />
and a 7-5 win over second place Nipissing.<br />
Carleton is tied for fourth in its<br />
10 team league.<br />
Carleton women have been much<br />
less successful. They lost four of their<br />
first six regular season games, including<br />
an overtime loss to Université of<br />
Montreal and a shoot-out loss to <strong>Ottawa</strong>.<br />
In those games they were outscored<br />
only 20-18 with their only<br />
one-sided loss a 6-3 loss to <strong>Ottawa</strong>.<br />
They then had back to back losses to<br />
the # 1 team in Canada, the defending<br />
Canadian champions, McGill Martlets.<br />
McGill went last season without<br />
a single loss.<br />
Although Carleton is in Ontario,<br />
the women play in the five team Quebec<br />
league with McGill, <strong>Ottawa</strong>, Concordia<br />
and Montreal.<br />
Chokecherry-Crab Apple Jelly<br />
cover, and a few tablespoons of lemon juice if you<br />
like, and set to gently boil. Boil for a half hour or<br />
so, then strain overnight. If you have cheesecloth<br />
for straining, great. I use an old pillowcase.<br />
Step 4. Pour the juice back into the pot with an<br />
equal amount of sugar. Boil for an hour, checking<br />
to see if the jelly will “sheet” off a spoon or spatula,<br />
and skimming off the scum (so that the jelly<br />
will be clear, but also so you can eat it).<br />
Step 5. Once the jelly sheets off a spoon, it is<br />
ready to be poured into sterilized jars. At this<br />
point, you can follow traditional wax seal or<br />
water bath techniques to store your jelly at room<br />
temperature. I bypass this step and keep the jelly<br />
in the fridge. Any extra jars go to friends and<br />
family in trade for a jar of their own home goods.<br />
Editor’s Note: This is Sarah Jane’s recipe for her<br />
prizewining OSCA Fall Fest jam . See article by<br />
Brenda Lee on page 8.
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