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Big weekend coming up for Heat with five teams competing at high stakes
10/20/11
Heat teams have been preparing for the big weekend for many months now. Photos supplied by Heat Athletics
Perhaps one of the biggest weekends to occur this year—and perhaps in the history of the Heat—is bearing down upon us. The weekend of October 28-30, immediately preceding Halloween, promises to be action-packed, as five Heat teams will showcase their talents in high-stakes action in the valley.
UBC’s Okanagan campus is hosting this year’s PacWest (formerly BCCAA) Provincial Championships at the Nonis field, a three-day display of the some of the best soccer in the Province. The Women’s team hopes to finally make it to the Gold this year, while the Men— should they secure a playoff berth in the upcoming final weekend of league play—will be looking to prove themselves in their first playoff foray since the campus became UBC.
Next door at the gymnasium will be the much-anticipated beginning of the Heat’s first-ever CIS campaign where both the Men’s and Women’s volleyball teams will be hosting Canada West foes the University of Winnipeg. The Wesmen are here for back-to-back games Friday and Saturday night. Both Heat teams have had fair measures of success in the pre-season, including the Men’s dismantling of the Trinity Western University Spartans—defending National Champs—handing them their only loss of the pre-season (at time of writing).
The final complement to the weekend’s events is the Hindson Cup, which will showcase the Heat’s new Rugby team in high-level competition with two University teams from Alberta, as well as Simon Fraser University. The Hindson Cup, honouring the newly minted B.C. Rugby Hall of Fame inductee Ro Hindson, will determine a Regional Champion, who will then have the right to challenge the winner of the annual boot game between the UBC Thunderbirds and UVIC Vikes for the title of Western University Champion.
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