Marcotte-³¢Ã©²µ²¹°ùé named Quebec university athlete of the week
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MONTREAL -- McGill hockey player Simon Marcotte-³¢Ã©²µ²¹°ùé of Longueuil, Que., is the De Facto Quebec University male athlete of the week for the period ending Oct. 11, 2009.
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Laval rugby player Claudiane Renau won the weekly honour on the female side.
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Marcotte-³¢Ã©²µ²¹°ùé, a 23-year-old management junior from Longueuil, Que., scored twice and added an assist as visiting McGill shocked the UQTR Patriotes 7-3 in men's university hockey at Trois-Rivières, on Oct. 7. It was McGill's first-ever preseason road victory in 13 lifetime exhibition meetings at UQTR, since the teams began playing each other in 1969.
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The 6-foot-1, 190-pound centre, set-up a power-play goal at 14:33 of the middle period to make it 5-2 for the Redmen. He then scored three minutes later to put the game out of reach and added a third period marker as the icing on the cake. Marcotte-³¢Ã©²µ²¹°ùé, an Academic All-Canadian last year, joined the Redmen in 2007 after graduating from College Edouard-Montpetit.
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