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Anti-drunk drivinggroups at odds overbreathalyzer useProposed legislation wouldlet police check on a whim

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NO, I WILL NOT PLAY ANY NICKELBACK, STOP ASKING. King’s University College student Warsan Amin performs at the socialjustice and peace club’s War Child coffee house held in the King’s cafeteria last night.

By Meagan KashtyGazette Staff

Justice Minister Rob Nicholson is encouraging the cre-ation of federal legislation that would allow police offi-cers to administer random breathalyzer tests.

Currently, the law states a police officer who sus-pects a person has alcohol in their system can demanda breath test. New legislation would permit officers toconduct a test without this suspicion.

Margaret Williams, Ontario East director for Moth-ers Against Drunk Driving, was supportive of the pro-posed legislation.

“I think it would definitely be beneficial,” Williamssaid. “It’s been researched by credible people withinMADD Canada.”

Williams also noted other countries, such as Aus-tralia, have instituted a random breathalyzer systemand have seen success. While overall consumption ofalcohol increased, impaired driving decreased.

However, other organizations who stand againstimpaired driving are not quite as convinced.

“Random breathalyzers might not hurt, but they’recertainly not a top priority,” Anne Leonard, executivedirector of Arrive Alive — Drive Sober, said.

Leonard believed the government should placemore emphasis on previously enacted legislation, witha focus on making citizens aware of the laws that arealready in place before making any drastic changes.

“I would rather see more use of Operation Lookout,”Leonard said. Operation Lookout invites people to per-sonally phone in and report any impaired driving whileit is in progress.

Randomized breathalyzer testing has also raisedconcerns over violations, as a police officer would beable pull over anyone. However, Sergeant Tom O’Brien,London police traffic management officer, said this vio-lation is not something people should get up in armsabout.

O’Brien also noted the success of the ReducedImpaired Driving Everywhere program.

The program works to increase awareness of injuryand death caused by impaired driving, and recruits off-duty police officers to conduct vehicle spot checks.

London received $45,000 funding for the program,which allowed the police force to double the number ofofficers who participated in the program. Increasedfunding also means RIDE will not be restricted to spe-cific holidays, and could be spread out through theyear.

“We do all we can to have all officers dedicate sometime to a RIDE program,” noted O’Brien. “But [fund-ing] is the primary source of RIDE activities.”

Chris Bentley, member of provincial parliament forLondon West, was enthusiastic about RIDE’s progress.“This is all about protecting the community — keep-ing people safe,” he said

“Drinking and driving accidents are completely pre-ventable,” Bentley added. “We want to make sure peo-ple are aware that if they drink and drive, they will becaught, they will be stopped and they will be prosecut-ed.”

O’Brien said he is noticing an increase in people intheir twenties driving under the influence.

Ultimately, education and awareness appear to bethe primary means of dissuading people from drink-ing and driving.

“Police across Canada are engaged in highschools and colleges with different displays andevents to advertise the perils of impaired driving,”O’Brien said. “ We’re not skulking in the shadows …we’re enforcing.”

By Shreya TekriwalGazette Staff

Fear of the H1N1 pandemic has put a holdon the seasonal flu vaccination.

Unlike previous years, seasonal flushots will not be available to everyoneuntil after the H1N1 vaccination isreleased. According to a press release byMiddlesex-London Health Unit, only indi-viduals over the age of 65 and those livingin long-term care facilities are eligible toreceive the seasonal flu shots before theprovince-wide distribution of the H1N1influenza vaccine.

“Our seniors seem to be at greater riskof contracting the seasonal flu than thenew H1N1 strain, [so] it is important forus to get them immunized as soon as wecan,” Marlene Price, manager of vaccinepreventable diseases at the health unit,said in the press release.

According to Cynthia Gibney, Western’sStudent Health Services manager, thehealth unit does not know when the sea-sonal flu vaccine will be available for stu-dents.

An unpublished scientific study sug-gested getting the regular seasonal flu vac-cine might increase the risk of contractingH1N1, according to an article by CTV news.

“That is probably why they have putoff giving seasonal shots until after theH1N1 shots are released,” Gibney said inresponse to the concerns outlined by thestudy.

“[The] flu shot is an inactivated fluvirus that causes a response so youbecome immune to the virus you come incontact with,” Gibney explained.

Michael Rieder, chair of the section

and division of clinical pharmacology atWestern, recommended students get thevaccination and insisted students shouldnot be afraid of H1N1.

However, Kelly Rau, naturopathic doc-tor with London’s Forest City Naturopath-ic Clinic, felt otherwise.

“We don’t generally promote the flushot,” Rau said. “[It] is not necessarily thatnatural.”

Rau added people often end up gettingsick regardless, as flu vaccinations tem-porarily deplete an individual’s immunesystem.

Rau recommended getting lots of rest,eating healthy, taking multi-vitamins andextra Vitamin C to help prevent the flu.

“I plan on getting the flu shot. I get itevery year to protect myself — I don’t wantto get sick,” Amanda Carpenter, a fourth-year psychology student, said.

“I’m definitely feeling the pressure.We’ve been getting emails everyday aboutH1N1 and even though I don’t think theflu has anything to do with H1N1, I stillfeel a need to get it,” Andrea Klein, afourth-year media, information and tech-noculture student added.

According to Gibney, H1N1 vaccina-tion programs will likely begin in Novem-ber, followed by the seasonal flu shots.

Seasonal flu vaccine withheldSeniors and long-term care residents given priority over students

“Our seniors seem to beat greater risk of con-tracting the seasonal fluthan the new H1N1strain, [so] it is importantfor us to get them immu-nized as soon as we can.”

— Marlene Price, manager of vaccine preventable diseases

at the Middlesex-London Health Unit

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USC playing it safe with investmentsUniversity admin expecting lower returns during period of parity with American dollarBy Abid-Aziz LadhaniGazette Staff

Western stands well protectedagainst the long-term effects of astrong Canadian dollar accordingto university officials.

Soaring to its highest levels sinceAugust 2008, the loonie rose above97 cents US, almost reaching paritywith the greenback and increasingthe cost of Canadian exports.

However, the rise in the value ofthe loonie did not have an effect onthe University Students’ Councilfinances.

“As far as our investments areconcerned, they are unaffected,”Sacha Kumar, USC vice-presidentfinance, said. “As we speak we are stillworking on our investment policy atthe USC, so luckily we hadn’t decid-ed previously to diversify into higherrisk investments because then wewould have gotten hammered.”

Despite being wary of studentfunds at risk, Kumar mentionedresidues of the passing recessionare still apparent in aspects of USC

operations.“The only thing that is hurting

us as far as the recession is con-cerned, is that students aren’tspending as much money. They aremore wary about fee increases, andthey are spending less on our oper-ations,” Kumar added.

Kumar also noted the USC willnot be pursuing any high-riskinvestments as financial hardshipsmay return in the future.

The situation for the University’sinvestments is slightly different.

“Our hedging strategy mayresult in lower returns during [the]months of Canadian dollar parityagainst the U.S.,” said Lynn Logan,associate vice-president financialservices and chair of Western’sinvestment committee.

Despite a short-term reflectionof the dollar’s strength, Western’sendowment funds are protected,according to Logan.

Michael Parkin, professor emer-itus of economics at Western, wasconcerned international studentsmight be affected by the strong

dollar.“The extent we rely on interna-

tional students to pay their tuitionmight be impacted. A strong dollarmight make that too expensive forthem,” Parkin said.

However, Logan explained theUniversity has a policy in place inorder to mitigate concerns aroundcurrency fluctuations. She saidthere are many months when theU.S. dollar is stronger than theCanadian dollar, which is whenWestern’s strategy improves on theUniversity’s returns.

Twenty per cent of the totalinvestments exposed to non-Cana-dian currencies will also be affect-ed by the fluctuation in the value ofthe Canadian dollar, Logan added.

Jim MacGee, associate professorof economics at Western, agreedthe rise in the dollar shouldn’t havea large impact on Western’s invest-ments.

“[Western] has to plan for cur-rency fluctuations and deal with it,”MacGee said. “It shouldn’t be a bigproblem.”

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Big Brother is watching youAccessing some of world’s mostinteresting cities is only one clickaway.

Since 2007, Google has intro-duced its Street View application to14 countries including Australia,France, Italy, Japan and the UnitedKingdom.

Canada has been recently addedto the world of Street View, showcas-ing 15 cities in high resolution,including Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa,Quebec City and Vancouver. Therelease of Street View in Vancouveralso came in anticipation of theapproaching 2010 Winter Games.

“Google Street View is just anoth-er great tool for travellers coming toVancouver […] It will likely be oneof the many navigation tools usedby the 250,000 visitors that areexpected to be in the region [duringthe Olympics],” Amber Sessions,travel media relations specialist atTourism Vancouver, said.

The application is beneficial forany tourists going to Vancouver inFebruary, as the 360 degree view ofthe city makes it easier for new-comers to explore the region byincreasing accessibility and provid-ing users with high-quality imagery.

—Tania Overholt

No idle pursuitIn the upcoming weeks, London dri-vers can expect a blitz throughoutthe city to fight unnecessary idling.

The blitz came in accordancewith the newly amended anti-idlingbylaw, passed Sept. 1, 2009, whichreduced the maximum idling timefor motor vehicles down to twominutes from five.

The bylaw aims to reduce emis-sions and thereby improve air qual-ity and reduce related public health

concerns.“Blitzes were always envisioned

as a key part of moving forwardwith the amended bylaw,” Jay Stan-ford, environment and solid wastedirector of London, said.

According to Stanford, schools,strip malls, community facilitiesand railway crossings will beamong the areas targeted in theblitz. Those convicted under thebylaw are subject to a fine, rangingfrom a minimum of $50 to a maxi-mum of $5,000.

Idling is permitted when outsidetemperatures are below fivedegrees or over 27 degrees.

“Londoners can expect increasedawareness about the need to elimi-nate unnecessary idling to improvelocal air quality, conserve fuel andsave money,” Stanford said.

—Emily Kring

Drinking games cause morethan a hangover

Students should add drinkinggames to the list of activities toavoid in preparation for H1N1.

Medical officials at RensselaerPolythechnic Institute, an upstateNew York college, believe severalcases of H1N1 were linked to thesharing of cups at drinking gamessuch as beer pong.

Kate Rowe, a first-year engineer-ing student, felt abstaining fromdrinking games would not helpprevent the spread of H1N1.

“There are so many other waysof transmitting the illness than sim-ply drinking,” Rowe said.

However, if Western’s adminis-tration did try to address the issueof students playing drinking games,the effectiveness of this strategy —or any other strategy to curtail thespread of the H1N1 — would

remain a mystery. “[The University] is not swab-

bing for H1N1,” Cynthia Gibney,manager of Western Health Ser-vices, said. “If we did, the systemwould be overwhelmed.”

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The Canadian Government is considering new legislationthat would allow for random roadside breathalyzer tests.While in the past, breathalyzer tests could only be con-ducted if police had reason to suspect intoxication, thechanges would allow police to pull over anyone, at anytime of year.

While attempting to lessen the number of impaireddrivers is a noble goal, one must question the effective-ness of the proposed legislation.

It’s unquestionable that drunk driving is an ongoingdanger on our roads, and needs to be addressed. Howev-er, the proposal is flawed in its approach.

Some argue the visible presence of RIDE programsduring the holidays helps reduce drunk driving drivers —there’s no doubt most people are more careful when theyknow they could run into a roadblock on the way home.It’s logical to assume a year-round program should onlybe more effective.

However, resources, time and tax dollars would be bet-ter spent on other outreach programs than funding policeto pull over random cars. The legislation is redundant —most police departments already have officers patrollingthe roads and streets for dangerous behaviour.

The increased police power that would come with thelegislation is also cause for concern. It would be nice tobelieve those out to serve and protect would only usetheir expanded powers for good, but reality would likelytell a different story.

Police already have the power to pull over anyone theysuspect to be impaired, so why should this be expandedto include those who officers don’t suspect?

Of course, it’s better dozens of innocent citizens arepulled over and inconvenienced if it means one impaireddriver is removed from the roads — but such an approachoverlooks more preventative strategies.

Groups supporting this legislation, such as MothersAgainst Drunk Driving, point out similar laws have beenenacted in other countries with positive results.

However, instead of toughening a decades-old reac-tionary approach, the Government should work to edu-cate the public and reform society’s views on impaireddriving.

Tighter rules in licensed establishments is oneapproach that could address impaired driving before thedriver gets on the road. Offering free breathalyzer tests inbars or encouraging programs like Operation Red Noseare inexpensive, but effective methods of preventingdrunk driving.

No matter what the approach, it’s important the Gov-ernment does its best to prevent impaired driving —shock advertising campaigns, police programming and

educational outreach are all effective, despite some dis-advantages.

Ultimately, however, the choice is up to the individual.An impaired driver’s biggest fear shouldn’t be fines or

jail-time, but the possibility of killing someone.

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Alfred Nobel must be rolling in his grave.In his will, Nobel stipulated a prize be

given to “the person who shall have donethe most or the best work for fraternitybetween nations, for the abolition orreduction of standing armies and for theholding and promotion of peace con-gresses.”

So how did Barack Obama win thecoveted Nobel Peace Prize?

The deadline for nominations wasless than two weeks into Obama’s presi-dency. He hadn’t done anything nomi-nation-worthy and he hasn’t done any-thing since — besides keeping troops inAfghanistan and Iraq and toying with thenotion of potentially sending more.

But there’s his rhetoric, of course.Nobel committee chairman ThorbjornJagland alluded to Obama’s feel-goodspeeches while striving to explain thereasoning behind the president’s selec-tion.

“One of the first things [Obama] didwas to go to Cairo to try to reach out tothe Muslim world, then to restart theMideast negotiations, and then hereached out to the rest of the worldthrough international institutions,”

Jagland said in a National Post article.In other words, he said some nice

things and shook a few hands.Nonetheless, the committee declared

Obama has given the world “hope.” Butwhy aren’t people wearing those shirtsemblazoned with his face anymore? Andwhy have his approval ratings droppedsteadily since his inauguration?

Maybe it’s because the hope andchange Obama promoted during hiscampaign were empty and vapid notions— a clever marketing strategy reminis-cent of a beer commercial and nothingmore. Rather than awarding Obama thepeace prize, we ought to award his cam-paign strategists a trophy for their slickpromotional tactics.

But I digress. In the end, the NobelPeace Prize has a long history of contro-versial and bizarre recipients.

Past winners have not always fit theaward’s exact mandate. Many winnershave stirred up global debate, such asYasser Arafat in 1994. Then came the2007 winners — Al Gore and his climate-change crusaders, who had nothingwhatsoever to do with the award’s origi-nal intentions. On the other hand, somewell-deserving nominees — mostnotably, Gandhi — have been passedover entirely.

As National Post columnist JonathanKay pointed out recently, Sri Lanka hasemerged a peaceful nation thoughentrenched in warfare just last year. Per-haps a worthy recipient for the Nobel

Peace Prize would have been the SriLankan president, Mahinda Rajapaksa,who launched a bloody but successfulcampaign against the Tamil Tigers.

Many others rooted for Zimbabwe’spresident, Morgan Tsvangirai, to win thecoveted honour. Attempting to bringfreedom and democracy to his country,Tsvangirai suffered the unimaginable ––beatings, arrests, attempts on his life ––and also formed a power-sharing agree-ment with Zimbabwe’s tyrannous formerleader, Robert Mugabe.

Unlike Obama, these individualstoiled for years in pursuit of peace. Yes,their lives are rife with controversy, butthere has been a past precedent for con-troversial Nobel recipients.

Nobel himself lived a controversiallife. As the inventor of dynamite, he cre-ated what eventually emerged as a pow-erful weapon that made him immenselywealthy, much to the chagrin of peaceproponents in his day. Perhaps thisexplains his deathbed desire to leave alegacy of peace.

The Nobel Peace Prize selection com-mittee and their routine undermining ofits mandate have sadly eroded Nobel’sefforts. Recipients should strive for tan-gible peace, based not on their rhetoricbut on concrete effort. Maybe then theaward would carry some actual prestige,instead of its power slowly being dilutedby increasingly politicized choices.

Obama, Nobel would surely say, has along way to go.

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The Gazette looks back to 1972 this week when members ofthe Western marching band set off to hitchhike from Londonto Halifax, raising money for the United Way.

Students gathered pledges before leaving on their journeywith the hope of raising upwards of $2,000.

Band members hiked along Highway 401 to the Trans-Canada Highway on their way to the Maritimes. Although thetask would be seen as dangerous today, organizers ensuredall participants were safe and heavy precautions were takenalong the route. Hitchhikers travelled in pairs and were easy

to spot on the side of the road wearing purple sweaters andwhite pants. Drivers also followed the band in case they raninto trouble and Skinner Bus Lines assisted students by givingrides through no-hike zones.

Len Lizmore, then-student and organizer of the under-taking, said he hoped the stunt would help improve thetarnished image many in the community held about West-ern students.

“Maybe by raising money for the United Way we can demon-strate that students aren’t as self-centred as people think.”

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By Maddie LeznoffGazette Staff

Ohbijou is the quintessential Cana-dian band — they’re Good Samari-tans, community oriented, andabove all, down to earth. They’realso playing at Aeolian Hall in Lon-don tonight.

The six-piece band hails fromToronto and are known for incor-porating instruments like thebanjo, mandolin, cello and pianointo their whimsical folk sound.

Despite the fact they’ve recentlydownsized from having sevenmembers, vocalist Casey Mecijasays that for such a large bandthey’ve never encountered any cre-ative differences.

“We’ve been together for almostfive years and I think that we devel-oped a good dynamic. We’re all kindof passive-aggressive anyway, so Idon’t think we’d ever get into it witheach other,” she jokes.

Mecija, originally from Brant-ford, fronts the band. What she saysbegan as a solo career — “it wasbasically me sitting in my bedroomplaying guitar [and] working outthe lyrics and melodies,” — soonevolved into Ohbijou. Band mem-bers now include sister Jennifer,James Bunton, Ryan Carley,Heather Kirby and Anissa Hart.

A close listen to Ohbijou lyricsreveals a connection to Toronto andthe Canadian landscape — thereare references to Bathurst andQueen Street, and songs like “Black

Ice” and “We Lovers” paint picturesof the country’s natural beauty.

“I love being here,” Mejica says.“I think it’s such an amazing placeto live and discover. Being [inToronto] for five years, I’ve person-ally gone through so much in thistown, and I’ve been influenced cre-atively by everything that happensaround me.”

Ohbijou has become an integralpart of the Toronto music commu-nity. They’ve collaborated withmany Canadian musicians —including Final Fantasy, BrucePeninsula and London’s Basia Bulat— on two compilation albums enti-tled Friends in Bellwoods.

“Basically the albums were cre-ated around this house that I livedin, on a street called BellwoodsAvenue,” Mecija explains. “It wassort of a hub for people to hang out,party and play music.”

Mejica and drummer Buntondecided to put their music to gooduse by donating all the moneymade from the second Bellwoodsalbum to Toronto’s Daily BreadFood Bank.

“[We] thought it was importantto capture the community, so weput together the first compilation,”she says. “Since it raised more than$10,000 we thought it was a goodopportunity to put a second edi-tion out.”

That’s not to say Ohbijou hasbeen focusing solely on compila-tions. The band released their sec-ond full-length album Beacons in

June, and have been on an exten-sive European tour for the past cou-ple of months.

“It was a neat experience becausewe’d never played that many showsbefore,” Mecija says. “We had thechance to go to Germany and theNetherlands. It was really exciting toget to see new places.”

Nevertheless, the band is happyto play on home ground again.Ohbijou played with Great LakeSwimmers the last time they werein London, and it was a memorableexperience for Mecija, who alsofondly recollects meeting Bulat.

“I think […] one of my fondestmemories of London is meetingBasia Bulat and becoming friendswith her,” she says.

This evening Ohbijou will playalongside another London act.Olenka and the Autumn Lovers willopen the show, and the bands arewell matched, both in terms of sizeand sound.

As for Ohbijou, Mecija describestheir performance as filled withhighs and lows — literally.

“We try and perform dynamical-ly. We work hard to get loud andthen soft,” she says. “At some pointswe bring it down to a nice hush. Weaim for an intimate performance.”

Ohbijou will play at Aeolian Halltonight. Tickets are $15 in advanceand $17 at the door. Olenka and theAutumn Lovers open at 8 p.m. Aeo-lian Hall is located at 795 DundasSt. See www.aeolianhall.ca for moreinformation.

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HITTING THE HIGH NOTES. Lead singer and lyricist Casey Mecjia beltsone out at an Ohbijou show.

Ohbijou bring folk and drama to Aeolian Hall‘Passive-aggressive’ performers combine patriotism with songwriting

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HELLO UP THERE! Toronto’s Ohbijou hit London with their folk indie sound tonight at Aeolian Hall. The band recently returned from a European tour following the release of their sopho-more album, Beacons, in June.

By Lauren MooreGazette Writer

Forest City Gallery’s exhibit, Guid-ed By Voices: Illuminated Still Lives,features renowned artists utilizingdifferent types of media to addressa common subject of light, whichitself touches on deeper themes.

The exhibit shows four differentpieces by artists Laura Kikauka,Tony Matelli, Ooma Haru Moomaand Wyn Geleynse. The artists wereeach approached by the gallery’sdirector, Jason Schiedel, to supplyworks in relation to light. Thesecontributors range in age, pastartistic statements and prominencein the industry.

“Light in art has come to signifyknowledge, purity and certainty.When we were setting up the worksfor this show, we wanted to useworks that spoke about the shiftingplay between light and darkness,”Schiedel said.

Whether it’s a black light or amock flame, each piece has aninterwoven light source to creative-ly convey its own message. Certainpieces are particularly provocative— and disturbing — which illus-trate Schiedel’s vision of a visuallystriking and unique show.

The exhibit’s title may seem tobe of little relation to its central sub-ject of light, but Schiedel assuresthis ambiguity is on purpose.

“You don’t hear any sound inhere, but I was thinking of the waythat the light emanates in the piecesas almost having a lure,” he said.“The pieces are almost compellingyou to do or think in some way.”

The venue and exhibit are smalland seemingly simple. However, anaccompanying lecture for visitorsreiterates the meaning and purposebehind the works of each artist.

“We were able to bring togetherlots of different types of peoplefrom different generations and avariety of places. Our goal was toput together a show that you couldeasily walk into at first and thinkthat there was nothing going on,and then have these discreteencounters where the volume is

really turned up. There is some-thing quite intense about theworks,” Schiedel said.

The exhibit has been frequentlyvisited and well-received since itsopening on Sept. 11. Part of the suc-cess can be attributed to its con-junction with Paul Walde, the artis-tic director for the London OntarioLive Arts Festival. “It has a lot ofhype because it’s connected withLOLA, and they have a great pressmachine, so we got a lot of atten-tion that way. There was quite a bitof coverage for it,” Schiedel said.

Since its establishment as aCanadian artist-run centre in 1973by successful London artist, GregCurnoe, Forest City Gallery hasacted as a bridge between the artindustry and the general communi-ty. Unlike museums and typical artgalleries, Forest City Gallery ulti-mately acts as a halfway pointbetween the two exhibition streamsby exhibiting artwork, providing lec-tures and featuring various perfor-mances. As opposed to selling col-lections, the gallery obtains fundsfrom private donations, the City ofLondon, the province of Ontarioand the Government of Canada.

In order to get the greatestimpact from the exhibit, Schiedelrecommends visits later in the day.The limited light from outsideallows for each piece to literallyshine at its fullest, allowing eachpatron to experience the exhibit’stheme and intention.

Guided By Voices: IlluminatedStill Lives runs until Oct. 16 at the For-est City Gallery. The Forest CityGallery is located at 258 Richmond St.

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York upsets MustangsPotent Western attack can’tsolve OUA all-star BlountBy James HallGazette Writer

Despite getting off to a hot start thisseason, the Western women’s fieldhockey team was cooled by the rainFriday evening at T.D. Waterhousestadium.

In a game that was as sloppy asthe weather, the Mustangs cameout on the losing end to a mediocreYork Lions team, falling 1-0 anddropping their record to 4-2-1.

“We needed to get back tobasics. We had a lot of chances butjust couldn’t finish,” second-yearforward Elsbeth Tate said of West-ern’s performance.

Tate also commended the effortsof York’s goaltender, first teamOntario University Athletics all-starBrittney Blount, who earned herfourth shutout of the season andlooked impenetrable against theWestern assault. Praised for theirspeed and physical endurance, theMustangs uncharacteristicallyopened the game flat, unable to usetheir speed on the slick turf. They fellbehind early, allowing a soft goal ona broken play within the first fiveminutes.

Shortly after the goal, the Mus-tangs had to deal with another blowwhen an errant shot pegged veter-an Sarah Coburn in the hand,sidelining her for the remainder ofthe game. Aside from that, the firsthalf was highlighted by Western for-ward Michelle Weber losing hershoe mid-play.

Western head coach JeffPacheco’s halftime message to hissquad was simple.

“We need to raise the intensity,get back to basics and let themknow this is our house,” Pacheco

told his troops.Although the Mustangs

absolutely dominated the secondhalf, pinning York to their own endfor almost the entire 35-minutestanza, they were unable to capital-ize on scoring opportunities andnumerous penalty corners.

York coach Deb Fullerton washumble about her team’s victory,crediting Western for a hard-foughteffort.

“It feels great to beat Western.They are a good and fast team, butwe played with true grit today andhad outstanding goaltending,” shesaid.

This was a particularly toughloss for the Mustangs as they shutout York 2-0 in a previous meeting,a game that York protested due toWestern having too many staffmembers on the sidelines.

This loss now puts the Mustangsa point behind York and into fifthplace in the OUA. However, withthree games in-hand and sevenremaining, Western has ampleopportunity to climb up the stand-ings.

“With the majority of players intheir fourth year, this is the year towin it,” Western trainer Collin Vinesaid. “This is the fittest and mostmentally prepared team in theleague.”

With lofty expectations fromplayers and staff for the 2009 sea-son, the Mustangs will attempt toright the ship Friday against anundefeated Guelph squad lead bytop OUA goal scorer BrianneStairs.

“Guelph preparation has alreadybegun,” Pacheco said after the loss,as he watched his team run sprintsin the pouring rain.

Corey Stanford/Gazette

OUA BASEBALL PLAYOFFS

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How sweep it isBergman, Townshend throwgems as Mustangs advanceto OUA finals with Laurier

By Bryn McDonnellGazette Writer

While most university studentsfound turkey and pumpkin pie thedelight of last weekend, the Mus-tangs baseball team swept the Uni-versity of Toronto in two straightgames, sending Western back to theOntario University Athletics cham-pionship series.

Western travelled to Toronto tostart game one of the semi-finalround on Saturday. Staff ace JordanTownshend was on the mound forWestern to face off against Toronto’stop hurler, Jake Gallo.

Toronto got on the board firstscoring four runs in the third andfourth innings to take the lead inthe early going.

“We jumped on the boardquickly,” Toronto coach Dan Langsaid, “but after that we just couldn’thold them and our bats never start-ed up again.”

It was a fourth inning rally by theMustangs that put up three runs tograb the lead. Cleanup hitter RobertWakefield and freshman GraemePrice led the comeback with a pairof doubles.

“We got the timely hitting weneeded. With the way our pitchingand defence has been playing allyear, I knew all we needed was thelead and we wouldn’t give in afterthat,” Townshend said.

Townshend battled for seveninnings, surrendering seven hitsand two unearned runs while strik-ing out seven Toronto batters. Car-los Cabrero relieved Townshend foran efficient two-inning save.

“I felt good out there. I knew Iwas capable of giving the team sixor seven innings. It felt real good toget my first win in Toronto and giveus the lead in the series before

heading home,” Townshend said ofhis work against Toronto.

Gallo took the loss for Torontoafter pitching well for 7 1/3 inningsand allowing all four Western runsen-route to the 4-2 loss.

The team returned to Londonthe next day to play game two of theseries.

The offence was started by athird inning RBI single from ShawnRobinson to give Western the lead.Toronto quickly tied the game, withan RBI single from Khalil Sheriff inthe fifth.

That was all the offence bothteams would show for nine inningsof play, as the game had a classicpitchers duel written all over it.

“I went out and did what I couldtoday ... I felt the defence playedgreat behind me and that’s whatallowed me to attack the zone soeffectively,” Mustangs pitcherAndrew Bergman said of his domi-nant outing. “Toronto was aggres-sive early so it kept my count downand allowed me to get deep in thegame.”

Bergman allowed just one runthrough nine innings, before lettingthe bullpen finish the game off.

“There’s no question of howgreat Berg pitched — he was simplyphenomenal,” head coach MikeLumley said after the Mustangs 5-1extra innings victory. “Berg gave usmore then we asked for and I thinkthe difference today was we didn’tfold. We kept our intensity high andbattled. It wasn’t just Berg, everyonecontributed. Thankfully his terrificeffort didn’t go to waste.”

The Mustangs were deadlockedfrom the fifth inning on, due to thepitching of Tyler Wilson who keptthe Varsity Blues alive.

Western took the lead in the topof the 10th inning when rookie

Daniel Goldberg broke open the tiewith a hard hit ball through the holeat short. An errant throw allowedfour runs to cash in the inning, ulti-mately ending the series.

“You know Wilson was tough outthere today. He shut us down andthankfully we played strong on thedefensive side as well. I just tried tostay composed and get a pitch Icould hit and it ended up going fora big inning,” Goldberg said of hiswinning hit.

Just after the game concluded itwas announced the Laurier GoldenHawks had defeated McMaster andwould face the Mustangs in theOUA finals. Western will play in theOUA championships for the fourth

time in the last five years. Western took all three regular

season games from Laurier, butLumley is not counting on thatbeing a preview of the champi-onships.

“Laurier is obviously doingsomething right. We played wellagainst them when we played thembut they are a really good team,”Lumley said. “We just have to stayintense and competitive and I’msure we will be champions a weekfrom now.”

Mustang Andrew Thomson alsoassured the team is ready.

“We were heartbroken last yearagainst Mac. We want the ring andwe want the championship.”

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LOOKING TO GET BACK ON TOP. The Mustangs baseball team has adate with the Laurier Golden Hawks in the OUA finals this weekend aftersweeping Toronto in the semi-finals. The ‘Stangs will be looking for theirfourth gold medal in the past five years.

7…errors by Toronto

fielders in the series

5…stolen bases by

Western in the series

4…unearned runs scored

by the Mustangs in the

10th inning of game two

14…combined strike-

outs by Western’s starting

pitchers Jordan Townshend

and Andrew Bergman in

the two-game series,

9.1…innings pitched

by Mustangs starter

Andrew Bergman in Sun-

day’s 10-inning affair

3…OUA championships

won by the Mustangs

since baseball became an

OUA sport in 2001-02

Game 11 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E

Toronto 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 8 2Western 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 X 4 9 2

WP Jordan TownshendLP Jake Gallo S Carlos Cabrero

Game 21 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E

Western 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 5 6 0Toronto 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 5

WP Andrew BergmanLP Mike FortunaS Adam Paish

WESTERN VS. TORONTO OUA SEMI-FINAL SERIES BOX SCORES

“We are asfocused as ever.We want anotherchampionshipfor this school.”

—Andrew BergmanMustangs starting pitcher

“We just have tostay intense andcompetitive andI’m sure we willbe champions aweek from now.”

—Mike LumleyMustangs baseball head coach

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