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Uni -Blues back in the national gold medal game

The team of the University of Toronto Versity Blues Badminton secured a perfect 4-0 record in the opening day of the competition at the Université Laval after they set up a perfect 4-0 record for the competition in 2025 on the opening day of the 2025 competition.

U of t began on Friday (March 14th) on Friday (March 14th) back to the championship final with 5-0 wins and defeated the Carabine in Montreal and the TMU Bold in the first two round Robin games. In each of the event categories, the early victories of blues won through a dominant performance by Jackie Dent and Jocelyne Jaw, who defeated their Montreal colleagues with 21-3, 21-7, while Dent with Chloe Choi was paired against TMU with an equally impressive 21-3, 21-5 profit.

In her last round-robin match, Toronto was in a back and forth series that finally came out with a 3-2 victory. After winning women singles through JAW and a further gain from a women's doubles for dent and teammate Joanna Xu, the decisive game in the series proved to be a mixed double. After the first game of 21:18, the U of T duo from Choi and Edward Zhang withdrawn and won the series victory with 21-13, 21-14 in the best-of-throat competition. The blues secured an undefeated round robin and earned later a national semi-finals a day.

To close on Friday, Toronto scored with the OUA Club Western Western, who dropped the York Lions 3-1 in the quarter -finals to reach the Final Four himself. U of t did a quick work of the Mustangs and won 3-0 and secured the victory before the Mixed Double Contest started. Once again, Dent and XU teamed up for a quick win from women's doubles, while Harold Tan secured a men's game for men with 21-18, 21-17.

In a remaining of last year's National Gold Medal Match and this year's Oua Championship final, the blues will again challenge the Waterloo Warriors for the upper step of the podium. U of t defeated Waterloo in the provincial championship 7-1 at the beginning of February, while the Warriors were exceeded in March last March on the national stage with a 3-1 win.

The national gold medal game is planned on Saturday (March 15) for 8:30 a.m. (March 15).

According to the team part of the championships, the individual championships will continue until Sunday (March 16) and offer the athletes another opportunity to represent their school and clubs for individual event titles.