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Gaels rally to stun Mustangs

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The lay-up, considered the easiest and safest shot in basketball, was in the spotlight during the waning moments of Saturday's Ontaro University Athletics men's basketball game in London.

This time the lay-up was pit in a race against the clock.

As Queen's Sukhpreet Singh, his team trailing Western by one point and time about to expire, exploded down an open lane towards the basket, the question was not would he score but rather would he beat the timekeeper.

He did so, on both counts – a rare, buzzer-beating lay-up that ended the Gaels' stunning 75-74 comeback win over the host Mustangs (9-6).

Queen's, which once trailed by 24 points, overcame a 17-point deficit in the fourth quarter.

Patrick Street and Greg Faulkner paced the Golden Gaels with 23 and 22 points, respectively.

Friday in Windsor, there would be no such flair for the dramatic as Queen's fell 93-86 to the No. 5 Lancers.

Windsor obliterated a slim first-quarter deficit with a decisive second quarter that included a 12-0 run.

Faulkner led all scorers with 25 points, Street netted 19, Tanner Graham and Mike Mullins a dozen apiece.

Things don't get any easier for the Gaels, who are in Hamilton this weekend to play No. 4 McMaster.

In women's action, Jenny Wright posted a career-best 35 points to lead the Gaels past Western, 86-72, Saturday in London.

Wright, a Regiopolis-Notre Dame grad, finished just a bucket shy of the all-time single-game points mark (37) set by Claire Meadows a decade ago.

La Salle alumnus Liz Boag added 19 points and Abby Dixon recorded a dozen points and five rebounds.

Queen's (9-5) started the game on an 11-2 run and never looked back, carrying quarter leads of 24-13, 41-30 and 59-43.

Friday in Windsor, Wright drained a game-high 21 points in a losing cause as her team lost 89-81 to the top-ranked Lancers. Boag added 17 points and Andrea Priamo chipped in 14 points in a close contest that featured 16 lead changes.

Queen's, with visions of an upset settling in, led the host team by one-point after three quarters.

Queen's meets No. 9 McMaster this weekend in Hamilton.

• Andrew Wiebe tallied twice and goalkeeper Kevin Baille turned aside 39 drives in Queen's 4-1 win over Laurentian in OUA men's hockey on a Sudbury Saturday night.

Eric Ming and Kelly Jackson also scored for Queen's, which was outshot 40-30. Wiebe's 10th of the year, into an empty net in the final minute, sealed the win and moved the Gaels to within a win of a level record (11-12-1).

The team stands a better-than-even chance of reaching .500 when Queen's meets RMC in Thursday's 29th annual Carr-Harris Cup at the K-Rock Centre. The last-place Paladins will be seeking to reach the win column in this their 24th game (0-20-3).

• In women's volleyball at Ottawa, Brett Hagarty had seven digs and seven kills for Queen's (11-6), but to no avail. The Gee-Gees (13-3) swept the visitors, 25-14, 25-18, 25-9.

The male Gaels, also 11-6 on the season, beat Western in the opening set before dropping three straight (18-25, 25-19, 25-21, 25-13).

Markus Trence recorded 16 kills and three digs for Queen's. Mike Tomlinson added 10 kills and four digs.

patrick.kennedy@sunmedia.ca

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