Men’s Basketball Face #1 Ranked VIU in National Championship Semi-Final

Etobicoke, ON – After a thrilling come from behind last second quarter final victory on Friday the St. Clair College Men's Basketball team has earned a shot at #1 ranked Vancouver Island University (Nanaimo, BC) in the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association National Championship semi-final on Saturday.  The Saints will tip that game at 6:00pm which is being hosted at Humber College (Etobicoke).   

VIU has been the nation's top ranked team all season and compiled a perfect 17-0 record on their way to a Pacific Western Athletic Association Championship who earned their way into the semi-finals with a 92-80 victory over MSVU (Halifax, NS) on Friday.  The Mariners are led by All-Canadian and CCAA Player of the Year Akoi Yuot (Calgary, AB) who ranked second in the PAC-WEST conference with a 22.1 points per game averaged with a 62.8% shooting percentage while adding 9.4 rebounds per contest.  Cameron Gay (Ninemile Falls, Washington) made a remarkable nine triples on his way to a game high 32 points in their opening round win over MSVU on Friday.

View all CCAA National Championship information on the tournament website at https://www.ccaa.ca/sports/mbkb/championship/index and all games will be lived streamed at https://portal.stretchinternet.com/ccaasportsacsc/

See below the entire tournament schedule and results. 

Fri, March 25^th

MSVU Mystics (80) vs. VIU Mariners (92)         1:00 PM EDT           Match 1 - ¼ Final

St. Clair Saints (93) vs. Dawson Blues (92)     3:00 PM EDT          Match 2 - ¼ Final

Capilano Blues (78) vs. Humber Hawks (88)     6:00 PM EDT          Match 3 - ¼ Final

SAIT Trojans (75) vs. Filons du Thetford (72)    8:00 PM EDT          Match 4 – ¼ Final

Sat, March 26^th

MSVU Mystics vs. Dawson Blues          1:00 PM EDT          Match 5 - Bronze ¼ Final

Capilano Blues vs. Filons du Thetford     3:00 PM EDT          Match 6 - Bronze ¼ Final

VIU Mariners vs. St. Clair Saints           6:00 PM EDT          Match 7 - Semi-final

Humber Hawks vs. SAIT Trojans           8:00 PM EDT          Match 8 - Semi-final

Sun, March 27^th

Winner Match 6 vs. Loser Match 7          10:00 AM EDT          Match 9 - Bronze semi-final

Winner Match 5 vs. Loser Match 8          12:00 PM EDT          Match 10 - Bronze semi-final

Winner Match 9 vs. Winner Match 10     5:00 PM EDT          Bronze Medal Match

Winner Match 7 vs. Winner Match 8       7:30 PM EDT          Championship Final