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CISGOLD 2009 CIS womens field hockey championship UBCs claims record 12th McCrae Cup GOLD 2009 CIS womens field hockey championship UBCs claims record 12th McCrae CupVICTORIA (CIS) The secondseeded UBC Thunderbirds won a recordsetting 12th CIS womens field hockey title with a 60 goldmedal defeat of the No 5 Alberta Pandas Sunday afternoon at the University of VictoriaThe Thunderbirds triumph their first since 2006 gives them one more McCrae Cup championship than Victoria and two more than TorontoThe Pandas who claimed their lone McCrae Cup in 2005 with a 21 penalty strokes victory over UBC in the only previous final between the two teams lost in the title match for the second year in a row as the No 5 seed Alberta was defeated 21 by Victoria in the 2008 finalThe sixgoal offensive output is a record for a single team in a medal match since the inaugural CIS tournament in 1975 The previous high was five by Alberta in a 50 shutout of York in the 1996 bronzemedal game the same year Toronto set the previous mark for most goals in the national final with a 42 win over VictoriaReigning CIS rookie of the year Abigail Raye of Kelowna BC led the outburst with her first two goals of the tournament (27th minute 60th)Elise Milosevich (1st) of Duncan BC with her teamleading third of the competition Robyn Pendleton (13th) of Victoria Whitney Kroll (50th) of West Vancouver and Kira Graham (61st) of North Vancouver rounding out the scoring Pendleton Kroll and Graham were all scoring for a second time this weekPendleton a firstteam allCanadian forward was named the championships most valuable player She was one of three TBirds named to the tournament allstar team along with fellow firstteam allCanadian Milosevich and Kristyn Harrington of West VancouverThirdyear UBC defender Kirsten Bertsch of Duncan was named MVP of the final while Alberta playerofthegame honours went to fifthyear forward Bunny Hughes of VictoriaThis is the game weve been dreaming of said Pendleton who captured her first CIS title in her third campaign with the TBirds Its a pretty good way to finish a season As a team we did really well and we finished our opportunities which ultimately made all the differenceUBC got on the board shortly after the opening whistle with Milosevich scoring 55 seconds into the contestUBC had built a 30 lead by halftimeThey were on fire today they were really moving the ball well said Hash Kanjee who has coached UBC to six CIS titles It took the pressure off early and after that we got into a groove and we did the right things and Im really happy for themThe TBirds Canada West champions seven years running finished the tournament with an undefeated record of 401 and outscored their opponents 163It was the 17th appearance in th...