
Huskies win third national championship
The Saskatchewan Huskies are back on top of the mountain. The Huskies women’s basketball team captured its third national championship with an 85-66 win over the Carleton Ravens on Sunday in Vancouver, avenging a loss to the Ravens in last year’s title game and reclaiming the Bronze Baby Trophy.
U SPORTS Player of the Year Gage Grassick was spectacular in the victory, scoring a career-high 35 points and adding seven rebounds, seven assists and three steals in the statement win. The fourth-year point guard from Prince Albert was especially lethal from long range, burying seven threes, another career best. Her scoring output is the sixth-highest point total ever recorded in the title game.
In typical Huskies fashion, however, several players came up big in the final. Téa DeMong, playing on an injured left ankle that put her playing status in doubt for both the Huskies semifinal win over UBC and the championship game, put up 13 points and two assists in a gritty performance.