Veteran Mustang Fitzsimmons out-duals Blues Samuel, while Park and Upenieks capture silver and bronze.

The University of Toronto Varsity Blues women’s team held on after their day-one results, while the University of Ottawa men’s team dug deep and moved up two spots to take the men’s crown at the 2009 OUA golf championships, presented by mikeweir.com at Angus Glen golf course, Oct. 19-20.

With four first-year Blues, the women’s golf team found a way to defeat not only the defending OUA champs, Western Mustangs, but the undefeated and tournament favourites, Queen’s Gaels, to win the school’s first OUA women’s golf championship. In fact, no one but the Mustangs have one the team championship since its inception in 2005.

Led by individual silver medalist Na Eun Park (Winnipeg, Man.) and bronze medalist Laura Upenieks (Toronto), Toronto took a slim lead on day one (252) before pulling away on day two with a total of 242 for a combined score of 494.

The Gaels finished second for the first time this season with a combined two-day score of 517, while the Western Mustangs and Waterloo Warriors finished the tournament tied for third with a total of 526.

On the men’s side of the draw, the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees bolted up the charts on day two of the championships to overtake the Queen’s Gaels, the Waterloo Warriors, and defeating the Western Mustangs in a tie-breaker to reclaim the men’s golf title they last won in 2007.

The defending champions Varsity Blues finished fifth with a two-day total of 599.

Waterloo Warriors veteran Tiffany Terrier led from start to finish in capturing the women’s individual title. The Kingston, Jamaica native shot five over par, 77, on both days of the championship - the next closest golfer was seven strokes back. That golfer was Park, who came out of nowhere, shooting a even par on the back nine and 78 on day two, to claim the silver medal with a two-day score of 161. She edged out fellow Blues rookie, Upenieks, who shot 162 and claimed bronze.

The men’s dual was worth the price of admission as Toronto’s Scott Samuel (Oakville, Ont.) and Western’s Charles Fitzsimmons (Toronto) picked up right where they left off on day one. It would come down to the final three holes, where Fitzsimmons stepped up and shot eagle, par, birdie to secure the individual men’s title, shooting 138, one stroke ahead of Samuel.

Waterloo Warriors Simon McInnis shot a 69 on day two (144) to push him past Laurentian’s Matt Bortolotto’s (Sudbury, Ont.) two-day total of 145. Queen’s Sean Lackey (Kingston, Ont.) and Gee-Gees Mark Coldham (Ottawa) finished one shot behind with a combined score of 146.
For complete results, including individual and team scores, please visit www.gao.ca.