Canadian University and College Cricket Association (CanUCric) is hosting the Jack Layton Memorial Trophy 2012 from Tuesday, Sept 4th to Friday, Sept 7th in King City, Ontario. The tournament participants consist of university and college cricket teams from all over Canada. From Toronto, the participants are York University, Ryerson University, University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM), University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC), and Sheridan College. Other teams from Ontario are Brock University from St. Catharines, University of Windsor, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) from Oshawa, University of Waterloo, Carleton University from Ottawa and McMaster University from Hamilton. University of Victoria from BC, University of Manitoba and Concordia University from Montreal completed the rest of the roster.
The group stage competition of the tournament is now over and the playoffs will be taking place on Friday Sept 7th with Semi Finals starting from 9 am until 3 pm, and the Finals will be taking place at 3:30 pm. All the playoff games will be taking place at the Maple Leaf Cricket grounds, King City, Ontario. University of Ontario Information & Technology vs University of Toronto (Scarborough) will compete in the first semifinals at 9am and Ryerson University v University of Waterloo will compete in the second semifinals at 12.15pm. With support from Olivia Chow, the tournament will be having its closing ceremony with City Councillor Adam Vaughan who would be awarding the players with their trophies then. The proceedings of the games can be followed on www.canucric.com.
The playoff games can be seen live at www.sorkkam.tv
About: CanUCric was formed in 2006 to get cricket re-established in Canadian Universities and Colleges. With its 5th year of the National Championship it is helping cricket get recognized as one of the most promising and fastest growing sports in Canada. Our goal is to get Cricket to an official status as a Varsity Sports level under the requirements of Ontario University Athletics (OUA) and Canadian interUniversity Sports(CIS).