SHERBROOKE, Que. – Home field advantage is on the line for the Bishop's Gaiters men's rugby squad as they host the McGill Redmen in their final RSEQ University men's rugby regular season game on Friday night at 7 p.m. on Coulter Field.  While in Oshawa, Ont. the men's lacrosse team will play a quarterfinal win-or-go-home game against the Guelph Gryphons in the 2014 Baggataway Cup on Friday at 6 p.m.
 
Men's rugby (4-2-1, 21 points) currently sits in a tie for second place in the RSEQ with the Concordia Stingers. The two squads have identical records and have each topped one another by 13 points. The Stingers host fourth place Montreal (3-4, 13 points) also at 7 p.m. on Friday night.  First-place McGill (4-1-2, 24 points) makes the trek to Lennoxville to face the Gaiters. A Bishop's win will ensure them a home playoff game. Depending on outcomes Bishop's, Concordia and McGill can finish in any combination of first, second and third.  To complicate matters the RSEQ uses the bonus point system meaning it will take final results in both games to determine the 2014 playoff matchups.  Earlier this season the Gaiters and Redmen battled to a 23-23 tie in Montreal, the Gaiters best result against their Montreal foes since 2002.
 
Watch the Gaiters-Redmen match-up live at www.gaiters.ca/webcast.
 
Six hundred kilometers west of Lennoxville the Bishop's Gaiters men's lacrosse squad competes in the 2014 Baggataway Cup.  The Gaiters will need to win three games in the days to regain the championship they won in 2011.  Their first-round contest is a re-match from the same game a year ago with the Guelph Gryphons.  Guelph topped Bishop's in the quarterfinal and went on to win the 2013 edition of the annual tournament.  The Gaiters (8-2, 1-0 playoffs) enter ranked second out of the CUFLA East. Their route to the Baggataway Cup saw them top the Trent Excalibur 12-8 on Coulter Field last Saturday.  The Gryphons (8-4, 1-0 playoffs) advance as the third seed out of the west after topping the University of Toronto last Sunday.
 
The winner of the Bishop's-Guelph game will move onto play Brock (11-1) in the semi-final on Saturday at 12 Noon. The 2014 Baggataway Cup championship is set for Sunday at 1:30 p.m.
 
All of the 2014 Baggataway Cup games can be viewed live at: http://www.webcastsports.net/cufla-2014-baggataway-cup/4587079596
 
The women's hockey team is also in action.  They play a women's team from Sherbrooke in an exhibition contest at W.B. Scott arena on Sunday at 5:15 p.m.
 
Stay up-to-date with all the Gaiters squads in action this weekend at www.gaiters.ca or on Twitter (@BishopsGaiters).
 
 
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