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2008 CIS Womens Hockey ChampionshipsUNIVERSITYSPORTCAFRANAIS CONTACT US HOMEMarch 21 2009 PRINT THIS STORYCIS championship (Game 3 Pool B) No 2 Hawks to play for CIS gold By StFX sports information ANTIGONISH NS (CIS) AllCanadian forward Andrea Ironside of Collingwood Ont scored a hat trick and added an assist as the No 2seeded Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks advanced to the CIS womens hockey final for the fourth time in five years with a 53 victory over the No 4 Moncton Aigles Bleues Saturday afternoon at the Keating Centre on the campus of St Francis Xavier UniversityChampionship website wwwuniversitysportcaechampionshipswhockey2009 The Golden Hawks who beat No 6 Ottawa 61 in the championship opener on Thursday finish roundrobin play in first place in Pool B with a 20 record and will play for CIS gold Sunday at 8 pm Atlantic (The Score Television Network and SSN Canada webcast twohour tape delay to 10 pm Atlantic) Their opponents from Pool A are still unknown as No 1 McGill (10) No 3 Manitoba (11) and No 5 StFX (01) are all still in contentionIn three previous appearances in the CIS final Laurier defeated Alberta 41 in 2005 to capture the lone title in team history lost to Alberta 21 in 2006 and was blanked 20 by McGill in 2008Playing McGill in the championship game would be a nice opportunity at redemption from last year but we arent getting ahead of ourselves said Ironside a member of the second CIS allstar team this season who had found the back of the net once against Ottawa on Thursday Were just happy to be back in the goldmedal gameThe Aigles Bleues who edged Ottawa 21 in overtime Friday will play for bronze at 2 pm Atlantic Sunday and are already assured of improving on their fifthplace finish from 2007 which marked their only previous trip to the CIS tourney Despite the loss this is a good experiencebuilding game for us and we will look to play a strong 60 minutes in tomorrows bronze medal game no matter who our opponent is said Moncton head coach Denis Ross Playing for the bronze medal is a good opportunity and possibly taking home a medal would be a big accomplishmentI think in the final 20 minutes our girls proved to themselves they could play with one of the top teams in the CIS and Im pleased with the way we responded after being down three goals after two periodsLaurier seemed in perfect control after 40 minutes against Moncton taking a 30 lead into the third period after outshooting its AUS rival 124 in the opening stanza and 222 in the middle frameBut the Aigles Bleues opened the third with two quick goals by freshman Janie LeBlanc (Balmoral NB) and thirdyear forward MarieHlne Plourde (Coteau Road NB) to pull back to within one marking the start of a fivegoal flurry in a span of 620Sophomore Katherine Shirriff (Car...