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2026 University Women’s Hockey Championships

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Waterloo and Guelph both play in the OUA West. Source.

March 19:
QF #1: Manitoba Bisons 1 – 3 Concordia Stingers
QF #2: Guelph Gryphons 2 – 0 Waterloo Warriors

March 20:
QF #3: Montreal Carabins 4 – 3 UBC Thunderbirds
QF #4: Ottawa Gee-Gees 1 – 2 UNB Reds

March 21:
Consolation #1: Manitoba Bisons 0 – 2 Waterloo Warriors
Consolation #2: UBC Thunderbirds 2 – 0 Ottawa Gee-Gees
SF #1: Concordia Stingers 2 – 1 Guelph Gryphons
SF #2: Montreal Carabins 5 – 1 UNB Reds

March 22:
Fifth-place game: Waterloo Warriors [2 – 7] UBC Thunderbirds
Bronze-medal game: Guelph Gryphons [1 – 2] UNB Reds
Championship: Concordia Stingers [2 – 5] Montreal Carabins

Meanwhile, the NCAA Division 1 women’s championship is going on.

Round One, March 12:
Minnesota Duluth 0 – 1 Yale
Princeton 1 – 4 UConn
Franklin Pierce 0 – 4 Quinnipiac

QF, March 14:
Yale 1 – 6 Ohio State
Northeastern 4 – 2 Minnesota
UConn 0 – 3 Penn State
Quinnipiac 0 – 6 Wisconsin

SF, March 20:
Ohio State 5 – 0 Northeastern
Penn State 3 – 4 Wisconsin

Final, March 22:
Wisconsin [3 – 2] Ohio State

Thomas Garvine

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Thomas Garvine was born in Ayr in 1690, travelled to Russia and thence to China where he served as physician to the Kangxi Emperor before returning to Scotland where he served fourteen terms as provost of Ayr. Source.

Morton visit Ayr United. Ayr sit fifth in the Championship with 35 points. Morton are eighth with 30 points. Morton have lost four in a row, their worst streak of 2025-26, and cannot finish first or second in the division.

Morton have a loss and two draws against Ayr so far this season.

Morton finished 2000-01 and 2001-02 with 35 points and were relegated both times.

This is Ayr’s eighth consecutive season in the Championship. In that time they have finished 4th, 4th, 8th, 8th, 2nd, 7th and 3rd.

Ayr’s top scorer is Mark McKenzie with 7 goals. Morton’s is Eamonn Brophy with 6.

Mark Kelly is Morton’s new General Manager.

Check out the giraffes at the Ayr United website.

[Morton win 0 – 1 on a goal by Comrie.]

The other Championship matches:
Partick Thistle (2nd) 0 – 0 St Johnstone (1st) (yesterday)
This was the 2025-26 Plenty of Nothing Championship League Cup final. [Partick win on the yellow card rule.]
Arbroath (3rd) [1 – 0] Queen’s Park (6th)
Raith Rovers (7th) [3 – 1] Airdrieonians (9th)
Ross County (10th) [2 – 2] Dunfermline Athletic (4th)

J1 100 Year Vision League East, matchday 7 (March 18):
Mito HollyHock (8th) 1 – 0 Yokohama F Marinos (7th)
JEF United Chiba (9th) 1 – 2 FC Tokyo (3rd)
Tokyo Verdy (4th) 0 – 2 Kawasaki Frontale (6th)
Machida Zelvia (2nd) 0 – 3 Kashima Antlers (1st)
Urawa Red Diamonds (5th) 1 – 1 Kashiwa Reysol (10th) (Reysol won on PK)

J1 100 Year Vision League East, matchday 8 (tomorrow):
Tokyo Verdy (5th) [0 – 0] FC Tokyo (2nd) [Verdy won on PK]
Kashima Antlers (1st) [2 ]EF United Chiba (10th)
Kawasaki Frontale (6th) [0 – 5] Yokohama F Marinos (8th)
Kashiwa Reysol (9th) [3 – 0] Mito HollyHock (7th)
Urawa Red Diamonds (4th) [1 – 2] Machida Zelvia (3rd)

The JFL Cup begins. Like the J League the JFL needed a tournament to fill in the months between 2025 and 2026-27. The 16-team JFL will divide into two 8-team groups and each group will play a single round robin, each club playing seven games. The top two clubs from each group will enter into a playoff. Winner gets a trophy.

To help spread the table out, regulation time winners get 4 points. Shootout winners get 2, shootout losers 1, and regulation time losers 0.

Let’s follow ReinMeer Aomori, who began play yesterday:
Criacao Shinjuku 0 – 0 ReinMeer Aomori (ReinMeer win on PK)

Other matches:
Greenock 0 – 1 Cambuslang Rangers (March 17)
Hearts B 0 – 8 Clydebank (yesterday)
Lipno Stęszew [2 – 3] Flota Świnoujście
Wick Academy [0 – 1] Brechin City
Renfrew [1 – 2] Largs Thistle
Bonnyton Thistle [5 – 3] Greenock
Glasgow United [3 – 0] Port Glasgow
Arniston Rangers [2 – 1] Coldstream
Fortuna Düsseldorf [2 – 5] Hertha BSC (tomorrow)
Morton Women [0 – 1] Bonnyrigg Rose (tomorrow)
Glasgow Girls and Women FC have dropped out of the women’s Championship and their games have been voided. Morton Women now sit tenth out of eleven with 8 points.

Lowland League Cup final (tomorrow):
Cumbernauld Colts [3 – 2] Gala Fairydean Rovers

Scottish Junior Cup, QF:
Johnstone Burgh [1 – 2] Dundee North End

West of Scotland League Cup, SF:
Irvine Meadow XI [1 – 1] Troon [Troon win on PK]

West of Scotland League Cup, R4:
St Cadoc’s [0 – 4] Auchinleck Talbot

2026 Concacaf Champions Cup, Round of 16, leg 2 (March 18):
Seattle Sounders 2 – 1 Vancouver Whitecaps
The Vancouver Whitecaps are out.

HFX Wanderers have signed Tanzanian striker Cyprian Kachwele on loan from the Vancouver Whitecaps, Dalhousie University goalkeeper Sinclair Astridge, and defender Harvey Hughes from Cape Breton University.

Historical matches:
1891/3/21 Morton 1 – 4 Northern
1931/3/21 Hamilton Academical 1 – 1 Morton
1953/3/21 Forfar 5 – 1 Morton
1981/3/16 Clydebank 0 – 6 Morton (Sc Cup R5 replay)
1981/3/21 Morton 3 – 0 Hearts

SFL results 1890-91:
1891/3/21 Celtic 2 – 2 Rangers
1891/3/21 Cambuslang 2 – 2 Dumbarton
1891/3/21 Hearts 4 – 1 Third Lanark
1891/3/21 Vale of Leven 5 – 2 St Mirren
1891/3/21 Abercorn 1 – 0 Cowlairs

Sudbury at Hull, March 19, 1961

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The Robert Guertin Arena under construction in 1957. Source.

The Sudbury Wolves visited the Hull-Ottawa Canadiens for the final game of the 70-game schedule. The Hull Habs were secure in first place with 91 points, but had gone two games without a win. Coach Glen Skov had them resting up in Wakefield.

The Wolves were fourth with 63 points, only 1 point ahead of Kingston, and needed a win to guarantee a playoff spot.

There have been Sudbury hockey teams named Wolves for over a hundred years. The EPHL’s Wolves started out in 1951 in the Northern Ontario Hockey Association and were active until the EPHL shut down. The current OHL Sudbury Wolves have been around since 1971.

Past and future NHLers in the 1960-61 Sudbury roster were: Silvio Bettio, Tom McCarthy, John Sleaver, Ken Girard, Jim Pappin, Cummy Burton, Gene Achtymichuk, Jack Hendrickson, Jack Martin, Myron Stankiewicz, Jack Price, Gene Ubriaco, Dave Amadio, Rich Healey, Bill White, Gordon Strate, Ernie Roche, Gary Jarrett, Al Millar, Gordon Turlik, Gerry McNamara and Cesare Maniago.

First period: goals by Morton (Sudbury), Bettio (Sudbury).

Second period: goals by Skov (Hull), Gray (Hull), Stankiewicz (Sudbury), Mortson (Sudbury).

Third period: goal by Mortson (Sudbury).

Ottawa Citizen: “Canadiens were so bad in the third period that it wasn’t until the 18th minute that Maniago had to make a stop.”

Final score: 5 – 2.