Sullivan and Tigers rebound on the Rock  

- January 25 2010

After a disappointing home stand last weekend that saw the 2009 AUS Champion Dalhousie Tigers men's basketball team drop back to back games to Saint Francis Xavier and Cape Breton, John Campbell's troops swept the rebuilding Memorial Seahawks in St. John's to get back in the thick of the AUS playoff race.

Although it's a virtual lock at this point that the X-Men and the Capers will finish 1-2 in the hotly contested conference and receive a first round bye at the championships in Sydney, the Tigers are battling the Saint Mary's Huskies for third place.

The Huskies were swept at the Tower over the weekend by a high powered Capers team that appears to be getting more dangerous every week. Heading into the final month of the regular season the Huskies are only two points ahead of the Tigers in the standings. The teams have a home and home series in February with eight points up for grabs.

In St.Johns, 5th year senior Andrew Sullivan had his first big weekend of the year in leading the Tigers to back to back wins. Sullivan averaged 18 ppg and hit seven of eight three-point attempts to break out of a shooting slump that had dated back to November.

Simon Farine added 20 points in Sunday's finale. The Tigers won both games by 20 points.

The wins gave the Tigers a season sweep of the Seahawks. The Tigers will try to extend their winning streak with home games this weekend at the Dalplex vs. UPEI and UNB. Both games will be on ssncanada.ca and ckdu.ca, 88.1 FM in Halifax. Surging Tigers Steal One at Memorial; Girdwood regains all star form.

Anna Stammburger's resurgent Dalhousie women's basketball team got a win in a gym that not many teams walk out of victorious.

Laurie Girdwood scored 18 points and added 10 rebounds for a double-double, leading the Tigers to a 73-69 win on Saturday night. Dalhousie led 61-45 at the end of the third quarter and withstood a feverish 4th quarter rally by the Seahawks for their fifth win of the season, sending MUN to an unheard of second straight home loss.

The Seahawks have dominated competition at home throughout head coach Doug Partridge's regime.

Memorial got their revenge on Sunday morning with a hard fought 62-60 win. Girdwood scored 20 points in defeat to cap a weekend performance that put the Dundas, Ontario native back into contention for another AUS all star nomination after struggling in the fall.

The fifth year senior has averaged 17 points and 10 rebounds in the Tigers last three games and has been the centerpiece of a mid season run that has seen the team win 4 of 6 games so far in 2010.

Dalhousie now has 10 points in the standings and is on the cusp of overtaking the last playoff spot from the Acadia Axewomen, trailing Alise Brown's team by one victory. The Tigers are 4 points behind UNB and play a pivotal four-point game with the Varsity Reds this weekend at Dalplex. The Tigers also host the last place UPEI Panthers this weekend in another 4 point game on Sunday. Both games will be on ssncanada.ca and ckdu.ca, 88.1 FM in Halifax.

Tigers Win Back to Back Games at Home; Get Blown out by Huskies at the Forum It was a week of highs and lows for Pete Belliveau's Dalhousie Tigers. After nail biting victories over the St FX X-Men and the nationally ranked Acadia Axemen at the Dalhousie Memorial Arena, the Tigers received a solid drubbing from their chief rivals and AUS powerhouse Saint Mary's Huskies.

After holding on to beat the X-Men 5-4 on Wednesday night, the Tigers staged a thrilling comeback on Friday to beat the second place Axemen 4-3 in overtime. The Tigers were led by newcomer Benjamin Breault, whose highlight goal to tie the game late in the third period may have been the Tigers most brilliant individual effort this season.

Breault picked up a loose puck in the neutral zone and exploded past an Axemen defender to the outside before deaking out Christopher Westblom to send the contest to overtime. Fellow newcomer Jordie Berk scored on the power play in the extra session to give the Tigers their seventh victory of the season, already three more than the team garnered last year.

The next night at the Forum on Windsor Street, Breault scored early in the first to give the Tigers some hope against the nationally ranked Huskies, only to see SMU score three unanswered goals on the power-play to finish the period. Huskies forward Cam Fergus would go on to tally four goals in leading Saint Mary's to a 7-3 victory.

The Huskies were without the services of Mike Danton, the former NHL player, who enrolled at Saint Mary's and is expected to play the rest of the season for Trevor Steinberg's Huskies as they try to get on even footing with the undefeated UNB Varsity Reds.

Danton was at the Forum and could be seen walking around the concourse with a couple of friends. There is heavy speculation Danton will make his Huskies debut Wednesday in a pivotal game vs. Acadia.

The Tigers are in sixth place and trying to hold on to their first playoff spot in over five years. Dalhousie has 17 points, one ahead of St. Thomas, one behind UPEI. Dalhousie hosts the Tommies this Friday at the DMA , followed by the visiting Moncton Blue Eagles on Saturday. Both games will be on ssncanada.ca.

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