LENNOXVILLE, Que.  – There will be CUFLA East playoff implications on the line when the Trent Excalibur are in Lennoxville on Sunday to face off with the Bishop's Gaiters.  Game time is 1:30 p.m. on Coulter Field.
 
Where we stand
Trent is currently second in the CUFLA East with a 6-1 record while Bishop's occupies the fifth spot at 3-5. 
 
                        GP       W         L          PTS     GF       GA
McGill              8          8          0          16        111      68
Trent                7          6          1          12        117      63
Queen's           8          5          3          10        91        76
Nipissing         7          3          4          6          88        97
Bishop's           8          3          5          6          78        86
Ottawa             8          2          6          4          87        91
Carleton          8          0          8          0          46        137
 
The top team, currently McGill (8-0), earns an automatic berth to the Baggataway Cup while fifth place travels to second place and fourth place goes to third place for CUFLA East playoffs to determine the division's last two representatives at the championships. The Baggataway Cup will be in Toronto from Nov. 9-11.
 
Bishop's holds the head-to-head tiebreaker over Ottawa but do not against Nipissing or Queen's.
 
After Trent, the Gaiters will play Carleton in the final regular season game on Oct. 27. The full CUFLA schedule is available here.
 
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No Trent or Bishop's player are in the top-7 in CUFLA East scoring.  Jeff Fernandes and Cole McWilliams are eighth and ninth with 30 and 28 points respectively to lead the Excalibur. For Bishop's Joel Wright (Newmarket, Ont./Sir William Mulock S.S.) leads the way with 14 goals and 13 assists. That gives him 27 points, tied for 10^th. Sam Firth (Ottawa, Ont./Nepean H.S.) has 26 points.
 
Last Time Out
Bishop's beat Whittenberg College (Springfield,Ohio) 11-9 in an exhibition contest on Monday night. Their last official game was a 12-6 defeat at McGill last Saturday night.
 
Trent also lost to McGill their last time out. They dropped a 16-14 decision in Montreal. The Excalibur will face off against Ottawa in the Nation's Capital on Saturday at 7 p.m. before making the voyage east.
 
We meet again
Earlier this year Trent beat the Gaiters 13-6 in Peterborough, Ont. Firth and Xavier Perron (Sherbrooke, Que./Champlain College Lennoxville) each tallied three points to lead the Gaiters while McWilliams and Cam Garlin recorded hat tricks for Trent. Nick Finlay chipped in with four assists for the Excalibur.
 
Coach's Corner
"Trent is a very talented squad, it's going to be a tough game," said Gaiters' Assistant Coach and General Manager Drew Pollock. "We didn't really show up for our first game against them.  We left our legs on the bus and got away from our systems. If the team that we know has the potential to show up on Sunday then we will be in that game.
 
"They have a lot of talent but not a lot of numbers so we will look to push them all game, especially since they will have played the night before."
 
Watch Live
Sunday's game is live online at www.gaiters.ca/webcast.
 
Next Up
After Sunday's game, Bishop's will play their final game of the regular season on Saturday, Oct. 27 when they host Carleton at 2 p.m. on Coulter Field.
 
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