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Exhibition Basketball. On the line an ALS Challenge dunking for the losing coach.

GAELS DEFEAT VIKINGS
(Kingston, ON) Hot off their perfect 3-0 start to the preseason, the Vikings men's basketball team hosted the Queen's University Gaels in their first home game of the 2014-15 season.
The Gaels are coming off a road trip of their own, through the United States where they lost games to the University of Vermont (95-53), and Ohio University (80-75).

Looking nervous playing their first home game in front of a packed SLC gym, the Vikings played with a tentative pace that caused several turnovers, making it all to easy for Queens to take control in the opening minutes of the game, jumping to a 9-0 lead. SLC would settle in and start to click offensively, gaining important confidence heading into the second quarter up 14-11.

The second quarter played out just like the first, with Queen's coming out shooting and the Vikings not being able to come up with an answer, taking a 25-21 lead at halftime.

In the second half, the Vikings were able to click offensively as they quickly moved the ball up court and execute a great play. However, the Gaels were also able to do the same, but were able to score at will and with ease.

"It was too easy for Queen's to score on us" said head coach, Barry Smith.

"We need to tighten up defensively this week in practice, if we want a positive result next weekend in our tournament (referring to the SLC Vikings Invitational next weekend)" Smith added.

The Vikings were able to stay with the Gaels for the majority of the game, but could not tighten up defensively against the well-conditioned Gaels, as SLC fell 69-54.

"Our rookies are starting to understand the intensity level they need to be playing at for College basketball" said Smith.

At the end of the game, Smith held up his end of the bargain and accepted his fate of getting ice cold water dunked over his head. But in a class-act move, Gaels head coach Stephen Barrie joined coach Smith for the cool down. In total, fans raised over $270 in gate revenue for the ALS Society of Canada.