The Lancer men’s and women’s basketball teams both won their first post-season tests Saturday, with the no. 1 ranked women knocking off the McMaster Marauders 83-64 in a divisional semi-final and the men, ranked seventh in the country, defeating the Laurier Golden Hawks 91-68.

The men will now head to the Wilson Cup Final Four tournament for the second straight year.

The women’s team will host Laurier on Saturday, March 1. Game time is 7 p.m. in the St. Denis Centre.

Men’s hockey team sweeps into OUA west semi-finals

The Lancer men’s hockey team eliminated the Toronto Varsity Blues in the first round of the Ontario University Athletics playoffs Saturday with a 5-2 win at South Windsor Arena. Windsor had taken the opener 3-2 Thursday.

Derek Lanoue, Mike Christou, Evan Stibbard, Drew Palmer and Spencer Pommells scored for the Lancers on Saturday.

Windsor will face off Thursday against Western in London to open a best-of-three series.

League honours Lancer forward

Ontario University Athletics has named forward Jenny MacKnight of the Lancer women’s hockey team its player of the year after her 40 points led the league in scoring.

MacKnight, a fourth-year environmental studies major, was also honoured as a first-team all-star. Her Windsor teammate, defenceman Kayla Dodson, was a second-team all-star selection.

Read “MacKnight named OUA Player of the Year” at goLancers.ca.