{"id":554319,"date":"2026-03-23T01:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T01:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/554319\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T01:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T01:18:08","slug":"jade-picards-late-goal-helps-montreal-carabins-win-u-sports-womens-hockey-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/554319\/","title":{"rendered":"Jade Picard&#8217;s late goal helps Montreal Carabins win U Sports women&#8217;s hockey title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">ELMIRA \u2014 The Montreal Carabins are the new U Sports women\u2019s hockey champions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jade Picard put away the winner late in the third period as Montreal surged past the Concordia Stingers 5-2 on Sunday in the gold-medal game of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Catherine Proulx and Laurie-Anne Ethier added empty-net goals for the Carabins in the final 1:15 of play after Picard broke a 2-2 tie with 4:32 left in the third period. Audrey-Anne Veillette and Ann-Sophie Bedard scored in the first and second periods respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Audrey Clavette and Emilie Lavoie supplied the offence for Concordia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Maude Desroches made 40 saves for the win in net and goalie Jordyn Verbeek stopped 30-of-33 shots for the Stingers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Earlier Sunday, Avery Thurston\u2019s goal near the midway point of the first period stood as the winner as the UNB Reds held on for a 2-1 victory over the Guelph Gryphons in the bronze-medal game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 22, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ELMIRA \u2014 The Montreal Carabins are the new U Sports women\u2019s hockey champions. Jade Picard put away the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338,82],"class_list":["post-554319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}