The University of Ottawa Gee-Gees women’s softball team came tantalizingly close to knocking off the perennial queens of Ontario university fastball on the Oct. 20 weekend, but had to settle for silver in a 9-4 extra-innings defeat to the Western Mustangs.
“It was a great game,” noted coach Scott Searle, whose Gee-Gees won four games to reach the final. “We were certainly disappointed with the result, but proud of the accomplishment.”
Meanwhile, Ottawa played host to the Canadian intercollegiate baseball championships on the same weekend. The Carleton Ravens men came within a game of reaching the semi-finals through a lengthy tie-breaking process, as St. Clair College went on to win the tournament.