Nine different Marauders crossed the try line, with newly-crowned CIS Player of the Year Cindy Nelles doing so twice, as McMaster pummelled the Lethbridge Pronghorns 62-14 to advance to the semifinals of the CIS Championship in Kingston on Wednesday.

Steph Black, Selena Seguin, Ashley Gordon, Katie Svoboda, Abi Moody, Heidi Henderson, Mackenzie Wiens and Maddy Seatle also had tries for the Marauders, while Black finished with a personal total of 13 points with four converts.

It was the veteran fly half herself who got the Marauders off to a blazing start, touching down under the posts just a minute into the quarterfinal contest to score the game's first try, and she followed up with a calmly-taken convert for the 7-0 lead.

The floodgates truly opened when Seguin and Gordon scored consecutive tries in the 12th and 13th minutes, as Lethbridge's defence sagged under the McMaster pressure, and the Marauders had a 19-0 with much of the first half left to be played.

Alert play earned Nelles her first try of the day, when she successfully stole the ball from the Pronghorns on a tackle deep in Lethbridge territory, and fell forward across the try line for the lightning-fast score. Opportunism paid off for the captain yet again just minutes later, as Mac won the ball from a scrum and Nelles came out with it, rumbling in for a try to give her team a dominant 31-0 lead after Black's convert.

The OUA champions managed one more score before the halftime break, as Nelles offloaded to Katie Svoboda, who crossed to give the Marauders the dominant 38-0 advantage at the interval.

Points continued to roll in for the Marauders as the second half began, with Moody picking off a Lethbridge pass and waltzing in for Mac's seventh try of the day, before the Pronhorns broke their own goose egg through hooker Frederique Tremblay. Her first of two tries on the day cut Mac's lead to 36 points at 43-7.

With substitutions rolling in, Heidi Henderson took advantage to score McMaster's eighth try, as Ashley Gordon assumed the kicking duties from Black. Mackenzie Wiens barrelled in for one of her own, before Maddy Seatle wrapped up Mac's scoring in spectacular fashion, turning on the afterburners to round the Lethbridge defensive line and scamper all the way to the centre of the try zone for 62-7.

Tremblay managed her second try of the day just as the final whistle was blown, but McMaster had long since sealed a crushing victory at the first hurdle of the CIS Championship tournament.

The Marauders now face a rematch against the Ottawa Gee-Gees, who they played in the round robin stage of last year's national tournament, coming away with a hard-fought 17-12 win on that occasion. Saturday's semifinal is due to kickoff at 3:00 p.m. and will be broadcast live on CIS-SIC.tv.