It was expected to be a battle and it was.
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The St. Francis Xavier X-Women pulled out a 26-22 victory over the UPEI Panthers in an AUS Women’s Rugby Conference semfinal game in Antigonish, N.S., on Oct. 14.
The X-Women will now travel to Wolfville, N.S., and play the first-place Acadia Axewomen in the conference’s championship game on Oct. 21.
The semifinal match featured the second-place X-Women, who went 4-2 (won-lost) in the regular season, taking on the third-place Panthers (3-3).
The teams split the head-to-head meetings in the regular season. Both teams won on their home fields – the X-Women prevailed 59-36 on Sept. 11 and the Panthers won 39-22 on Sept. 26.
In the semifinal game, the X-Women took a 14-12 lead into the half and outscored UPEI 12-10 in the second half.
Jessie Penney scored three trys to lead the X-Women while Brown’nesha Willis-Glasgow also scored a try for the home team. Emem Akpan kicked two converts and Allison LeBlanc contributed one convert.
Jason Simmonds is a sports reporter at The Guardian in Prince Edward Island. He can be reached at jsimmonds@postmedia.com and followed on X @JpsportsJason.
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