McGill rugby star Balloch named RSEQ athlete of the week
MONTREAL - Gideon Balloch of Ottawa and Véronique Maranda of St. Lambert, Que., are the university athletes of the week in the Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec for the period ending Nov. 6, 2011.
Balloch, a 6-foot, 185-pound winger on the McGill men's rugby team, scored 13 points as McGill defeated Concordia 28-7 to capture the RSEQ provincial men's rugby championship at Molson Stadium, Sunday. The fifth-year mechanical engineering senior, scored one try, a pair of penalty goals and one conversion. A Quebec conference all-star who won the RSEQ scoring race, the 22-year-old Balloch notched the game's first 11 points, including the game-winning try to give the division-leading Redmen an almost insurmountable 11-0 lead by the 52nd minute of play. He enrolled at McGill in 2007 from the International School of Beijing.
Maranda, a soccer player with the Montreal Carabins, collected a pair of assists in a 3-1 win over Sherbrooke during the Quebec conference championship game.
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Earl Zukerman
McGill Athletics & Recreation
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