CIS No. 5-ranked Axewomen remain undefeated after 56-5 win over Saint Mary’s

(WOLFVILLE, N.S.) - The CIS No. 5-ranked Acadia Axewomen rugby team improved to 2-0 with a convincing win over the visiting Saint Mary's Huskies Wednesday night in Wolfville.

The Axewomen scored 39 unanswered points in the eventual victory.

The Huskies, who defeated UPEI last week in their season opener, fell behind 12-0 after one half. Second-year prop Natalie Silver opened the scoring at the 24th minute of the first half. Converted by Emilie Chiasson, Chiasson added her first of two tries to give Acadia a 12-point lead after one frame.

Acadia's Allison Jordan, named the Subway Player of the Game, started the ball rolling with five unanswered trys. The senior lock/8-man pulled together two tries including her first at the 30-minute mark of the second half.

Emilie Chiasson and Janna Slevinsky recorded two tries apiece, while teammates Veronique Russell, Kristine Lovatt and Maddie Fray each added a try to the total.

The lone try for the Huskies came from Rhiannon MacDonald with eleven minutes remaining in the game.

Axewomen head coach Matt Durant was glad to see his team overcome what he says was a blunderous first half. "We didnt have a solid week of practice because I think they were so focused on the win over StFX," he said. "I had some strong words at the half and we came out and executed like we knew we could."

When asked how the team played compared to their win over StFX last weekend, Durant was frank. "Our centres played a great game against X and in the first half we didnt play as strong as we are capable of," he said. "We are lucky that today we could make mistakes and get away with it. We know we are a good team and we need to get better. We tackled too high, ran too high and were too high in the ruck. We got beat in rucking today and we need to improve on this."

The Axewomen will play the UNB club team in exhibition this Sunday at 2 p.m. before their next AUS conference game scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 22 versus St. Thomas.

Scoring Summary

First Half:

ACA – Natalie Silver – Try – 24 min                        5-0

ACA – Emilie Chiasson – Conversion                         7-0

ACA – Emilie Chiasson – Try – 17 min, no conversion        12-0

Second Half:

ACA – Allison Jordan – Try – 30 min                        17-0

ACA – Emilie Chiasson – Conversion                         19-0

ACA – Veronique Russell – Try – 26 min                     24-0

ACA – Allison Jordan – Try – 22 min                        29-0

ACA – Kristine Lovatt – Try – 19 min                       34-0

ACA – Emilie Chiasson – Try – 16 min                       39-0

SMU – Rhiannon MacDonald – Try – 11 min                    39-5

ACA – Janna Slevinsky – Try - 5 min                        44-5

ACA – Emilie Chiasson – Conversion                         46-5

ACA – Maddie Fray – Try – 2 min                            51-5

ACA – Janna Slevinsky – Try – 1 min                        56-5

Source: Acadia Sports Information