{"id":369138,"date":"2026-10-09T18:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T18:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/369138\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T18:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T18:52:09","slug":"after-big-win-at-western-queens-gaels-reheat-rivalry-with-windsor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/369138\/","title":{"rendered":"After big win at Western, Queen&#8217;s Gaels reheat rivalry with Windsor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bigger the win, the bigger the potential letdown. It\u2019s a rule of thumb in sports and life and thus a concern for the Queen\u2019s University Gaels ahead of their game against Windsor on Saturday at Richardson Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Gaels\u2019 41-30 victory over the Mustangs at Western last weekend was as big as it could get: two undefeated teams, clearly the elite of Ontario University Athletics football, going head-to-head for first place in mid-season. And even the enormous in-season consequences were dwarfed by history: Queen\u2019s was looking for a win in London for the first time since 2007.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Mustangs took a narrow lead into the fourth quarter, but Queen\u2019s was full value for the triumph, the final score reflecting a command of play plain on the stats sheet. And moving to 5-0 for the season, the Gaels overtook Western for third place in U Sports\u2019 national rankings, behind only the top-ranked undefeated Laval Rouge et Or and the once-defeated Montreal Carabins, the defending Vanier Cup champs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bigger the win, the bigger the potential letdown. It\u2019s a rule of thumb in sports and life&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[106895,9711,9,24,63,122,12775,124,123,127626],"class_list":["post-369138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-city-of-kingston","tag-kingston","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-gaels","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-ygk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}