VICTORIA, B.C. – The UBC Thunderbirds won all three matches Saturday at the final stop of the Canada West Women's Rugby Sevens Series in Victoria, B.C.

After picking up a pair of lopsided decisions in the morning, the T-Birds were in a battle with the No. 2 seed Alberta Pandas for the top spot in Pool B in Game 10.

Tied 12-12 at half, Kally King turned the game in UBC's favour with back-to-back tries to open the second half. Savannah Dubien supplied a try late, but the hole was too big for the Pandas to crawl out from. The T-Birds won 27-17.

UBC shut out Trinity Western by 46 points to start the day before beating Fraser Valley 41-7.

The results gave the T-Birds first place in Pool B, setting up a semifinal matchup with the Calgary Dinos Sunday at 11:36 a.m. PT. UBC entered the final weekend third in the conference, eight points off the lead.

Host Victoria was the other undefeated team on Day 1, clinching the Canada West women's rugby sevens title for the third year in a row. Only needing a fourth-place finish or higher to retain their conference banner, the Vikes won Pool A and at worst will finish fourth place in the playoff round tomorrow afternoon.

Victoria and Alberta will meet in the first semifinal tomorrow at 11:14 a.m. PT.
 

ROUND 1
Game 1
Trinity Western Spartans (0) vs UBC Thunderbirds (46)
    1    2    T
TWU     0    0    0
UBC     27    19    46

Scoring summary:
UBC Try - #8 Hunter Czeppel (#5 Shoshanah Seumanutafa convert missed) UBC 5-0
UBC Try - #6 Madison Gold (#5 Shoshanah Seumanutafa convert missed) UBC 10-0
UBC Try - #6 Madison Gold (#5 Shoshanah Seumanutafa convert) 17-0
UBC Try - #5 Shoshanah Seumanutafa (#5 Shoshanah Seumanutafa convert missed) UBC 22-0
UBC Try - #1 Emily Baker (#5 Shoshanah Seumanutafa convert missed) UBC 27-0
HALF
UBC Try - #4 Alayna Scramstad (#5 Shoshanah Seumanutafa convert missed) UBC 32-0
UBC Try - #2 Rachel Smith (#10 Jordan McLeod convert) UBC 39-0
UBC Try - #7 Kally King (#10 Jordan McLeod convert) UBC 46-0

ROUND 2
Game 5
Fraser Valley Cascades (7) vs UBC Thunderbirds (41)
    1    2    T
UFV    7    0    7
UBC    17    24    41

Scoring summary:
UFV Try - #6 Melissa Jongedijk (#2 Mackenzie Fowler convert) UFV 7-0
UBC Try - #5 Shoshanah Seumanutafa (#5 Shoshanah Seumanutafa convert missed) UFV 7-5
UBC Try - #5 Shoshanah Seumanutafa (#5 Shoshanah Seumanutafa convert missed) UBC 10-7
UBC Try - #2 Rachel Smith (#5 Shoshanah Seumanutafa convert) UBC 17-7
HALF
UBC Try - #6 Melissa Jongedijk (#5 Shoshanah Seumanutafa convert) UBC 24-7
UBC Try #8 – Hunter Czeppel (#5 Shoshanah Seumanutafa convert missed) UBC 29-7
UBC Try - #12 Emma Derraugh (#5 Shoshanah Seumanutafa convert missed) UBC 34-7
UBC Try - #1 Emily Baker (#5 Shoshanah Seumanutafa convert) UBC 41-7

ROUND 3
Game 10
UBC Thunderbirds (27) vs Alberta Pandas (17)
    1    2    T
UBC    12    15    27
ALB    12    5    17

Scoring summary:
ALB Try - #21 Melina Ioannides (#14 Heidi Peake convert) ALB 7-0
UBC Try - #5 Shoshanah Seumanutafa (#5 Shoshanah Seumanutafa convert) TIE 7-7
ALB Try - #13 Cassie Jorgenson (#14 Heidi Peake convert missed) ALB 12-7
UBC Try - #8 Hunter Czeppel (#5 Shoshanah Seumanutafa convert missed) TIE 12-12
HALF
UBC Try - #7 Kally King (#5 Shoshanah Seumanutafa convert missed) UBC 17-12
UBC Try - #7 Kally King (#5 Shoshanah Seumanutafa convert missed) UBC 22-12
UBC Try - #4 Alayna Scramstad (#5 Shoshanah Seumanutafa convert missed) UBC 27-12
ALB Try - #6 Savannah Dubien (#15 Kate Manning convert missed) UBC 27-17

Tournament standings – Day 1
POOL A
TEAM    WINS    LOSSES    TIES    POINTS
VIC    3    0    0    12
CGY    2    1    0    8
LET    1    2    0    4
UBCO    0    3    0    0

POOL B
TEAM    WINS    LOSSES    TIES    POINTS
UBC    3    0    0    12
ALB    2    1    0    8
TWU    1    2    0    4
UFV    0    3    0    0