KINGSTON, Ont. (October 3, 2015) – The Queen’s Gaels (4-2) pulled off an upset 23-15 win over the No.5 Guelph Gryphons (5-1) on Saturdayafternoon at Richardson Stadium.
GAME FLOW
The Gaels came out in the first half starting the game with a big kick return into Guelph territory. The first offensive drive for Queen’s ended with a miss field goal byΒ Nicholas DowdΒ (Gananoque, Ont.) who was filling in forΒ Dillon WamsleyΒ (London, Ont.) who joined the team in the second half as he was finishing up his LSAT test in the morning. The following series the Gaels defence held the Guelph attack to a three and out. Both teams exchanged possessions back and forth for the next few series. The Gaels got on the scoreboard in the first quarter with Guelph conceding a safety to give Queen’s a 2-0 lead. Punt returnerΒ Connor WeirΒ (Waterloo, Ont.) had a another big return into Guelphs half and the Gaels turned it into points as they scored the first touchdown in the game when running backΒ Jonah PatakiΒ (Wallaceburg, Ont.) scored a goaline rush to give Queen’s a 9-0 lead.Β Nicholas DowdΒ hit the extra point.
Guelph began the second quarter with their best offensive drive of the half as they drove deep into Gaels territory, but the Queen’s defence came up with an interception in their own endzone by linebackerΒ Luke McQuilkinΒ (Burlington, Ont.). Following the interception the Gaels offence drove into the Guelph half with consecutive first down’s but could not get any points off that turnover. The next offensive drive for the Gryphons saw them drive deep into Queen’s territory, Β but once again the Gaels defence came up with another crucial interception of James Roberts again, this time by linebackerΒ Justin BowmanΒ (Mississauga, Ont.) on their five yard line. Guelph’s offence answered back on their next drive when running back Johnny Augustine scored on a goaline rush to cut the Gaels lead to 9-7 with two minutes remaining in the half. The Gaels next offensive drive ended when they were unable to convert on a late 3rd down conversion which gave the Gryphons possession on their own 45 yard line. Queen’s defence halted Guelph’s offence once again before halftime with defensive linemanΒ Zac SauerΒ (Ayr, Ont.) getting a late second quarter sack. Queen’s took a 9-7 lead into the half.
The second half saw the Gryphons offence with another deep drive into Queen’s territory early in the third quarter. The Gaels defence once again made a strong goaline stand as the defence stopped Guelph on three straight plays to take over possession on downs. On the very next play with Queen’s on their own two yard line the Gaels offence entered the record books when quarterbackΒ Nate HobbsΒ (Burlington, Ont.) completed a 108-yard touchdown pass to receiverMatteo Del BroccoΒ (Leamington, Ont.) giving the Queen’s a 16-7 lead. The passing play from Hobbs to Del Brocco broke the team’s longest pass touchdown play of 104 yards in team history which was previously held by Danny Brannagan to Rob Bagg on Sept 16, 2006 and as well as Bill Harrison to Jim Pendergast on Sept 17, 1980. The passing play was the fourth longest pass play in CIS history, which was one yard shy of the all-time CIS record of 109 which has happened on three separate occasions.Β After the biggest play of the year for the Gaels offence the defence continued to make big plays on their side of the ball with middle linebackerΒ Mike MooreΒ (Mississauga, Ont.) catching the third interception off Roberts in the game late in the third quarter.
The fourth quarter started off with Guelph cutting down the lead to 16-15 after Augustine rushed for another touchdown. The Gaels offence answered right back on the next series which started with Pataki catching a screen pass from Hobbs and taking the ball 40 yards to the Guelph goaline. Pataki ended the drive with a goaline rushing touchdown to give Queen’s a 23-15 lead in the middle of the fourth quarter. Both teams exchanged back and forth possessions throughout the middle of the fourth quarter. The Gaels offence pulled off a fake punt snap run on a 3rd down play with a minute left in the game which caught the Gryphons off guard. On the very next play Pataki fumbled the ball on his own 50 yard line to give Guelph the possession back with 45 seconds left to play. The Gaels defence once again came up big with a sack on the first down followed by another third down stop to clinch the victory for Queen’s.
This was the first time that an unranked Queen’s team defeated a ranked team since 2011 when they beat the No. 1 Western Mustangs 37-0 at Richardson Stadium.
FINAL SAY
BY THE NUMBERS
108 – Longest Touchdown Pass in Team History from Hobbs to Del Brocco
3 – Interceptions by the Gaels Defence
9 – Total Tackles by DLΒ Zac Sauer
2 – Rushing Touchdowns byΒ Jonah Pataki
12 – Consecutive wins during OUA regular season play for Guelph. The streak was snapped today.
179 – Rushing yards by Johnny Augustine for Guelph
232 – Number of yards rushing on the season byΒ Nate Hobbs, 2nd most among CIS quarterbacks
UP NEXT
The Gaels football team heads into their bye week next weekend followed by a week eight matchup at York.
Source: Shawn MacDonald, Queen’s Gaels Sports Information
| Guelph vs. Queen’s Gaels at Kingston 10/3/2015 at 1:00 PM |
|
| Guelph 15 |
Queen’s 23 |
| SCORING | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | FINAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guelph (5-1) | 0 | 7 | 0 | 8 | 15 |
| Queen’s (4-2) | 9 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 23 |
| Kingston | Richardson | |||||
| PRD | TIME | SCORING SUMMARY | GUELPH – QUEEN’S |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 08:46 | Queen’s – Team safety | 0 – 2 |
| 1 | 06:24 | Queen’s – Jonah Pataki 1 yd run. (Nick Dowd kick is good). Drive: 5 plays, 46 yards in 2:13. |
0 – 9 |
| 2 | 02:38 | Guelph – J. Augustine 3 yd run. (Gabriel Ferraro kick is good). Drive: 3 plays, 51 yards in 0:37. |
7 – 9 |
| 3 | 04:47 | Queen’s – M. Del Brocco 108 yd pass from Nate Hobbs. (Dillon Wamsley kick is good). Drive: 1 plays, 108 yards in 0:30. |
7 – 16 |
| 4 | 10:56 | Guelph – J. Augustine 25 yd run. (Gabriel Ferraro kick is good). Drive: 7 plays, 55 yards in 3:47. |
14 – 16 |
| 4 | 10:56 | Guelph – Gabriel Ferraro rouge point. | 15 – 16 |
| 4 | 08:51 | Queen’s – Jonah Pataki 1 yd run. (Dillon Wamsley kick is good). Drive: 5 plays, 75 yards in 2:05. |
15 – 23 |
| GUELPH | STATISTICS | QUEEN’S |
|---|---|---|
| 25 | FIRST DOWNS | 21 |
| 8 15 2 |
Passing Rushing Penalty |
10 10 1 |
| 404 | TOTAL OFFENSE | 390 |
| 74 5.5 |
Total Offensive Plays Average gain per play |
63 6.2 |
| 156 | NET YARDS PASSING | 282 |
| 16-28 5.6 2-4 3 |
Completions-Attempts Net yards per pass play Sacked: Number-Yards Had intercepted |
14-27 10.4 4-28 0 |
| 274 | NET YARDS RUSHING | 139 |
| 44 6.2 |
Rushing Attempts Average gain per rush |
32 4.3 |
| 8-245 | PUNTS: Number-Yards | 9-295 |
| 30.6 | Average | 32.8 |
| 101 | TOTAL RETURN YARDS | 146 |
| 5-34 4-67 0 0 |
Punt Returns: Number-Yards Kickoff Returns: Number-Yards Interception Returns: Number-Yards |
6-56 3-58 3-32 |
| 5-50 | PENALTIES: Number-Yards | 7-66 |
| 1-0 | FUMBLES: Number-Lost | 2-1 |
| 4-28 | SACKS: Number-Yards | 2-4 |
| 0 0 | INTERCEPTIONS: Number-Yards | 3-32 |
| 34:33 | TIME OF POSSESSION | 25:27 |
Guelph |
Queen’s |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| DEFENSIVE STATISTICS | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | GUELPH | SOLO | AST | TOTAL | SACKS-YDS | TFL-YDS | FF | FR-YDS | INT-YDS | BRUP | BLKS | QBH |
| 94 | Blake McNeely | 6 | 1 | 6.5 | 2 – 13 | 2 – 13 | – | – | ||||
| 15 | Curtis Newton | 4 | 2 | 5 | – | – | – | – | 1 | |||
| 23 | Tristan Doughlin | 5 | 0 | 5 | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 5 | John Rush | 4 | 1 | 4.5 | 1 – 7 | 1 – 7 | – | – | ||||
| 3 | Colin Mandich | 3 | 1 | 3.5 | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 50 | Andrew Graham | 2 | 3 | 3.5 | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 7 | Orion Edward | 3 | 0 | 3 | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 25 | Nicholas Parisotto | 3 | 0 | 3 | – | 1 – 3 | 1 | – | – | |||
| 96 | Donnie Egerter | 2 | 2 | 3 | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 4 | Iain Hutchison | 2 | 0 | 2 | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 14 | Mackenzie Myers | 2 | 0 | 2 | – | – | – | – | ||||
| TM | TEAM | 2 | 0 | 2 | – | – | 1-0 | – | ||||
| 34 | Robert Carnegie | 1 | 1 | 1.5 | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 12 | Royce Metchie | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 16 | Daniel MacDonald | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 26 | Jailon Bell | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 33 | Derek Drouillard | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | |||
| 41 | Patrick McGrath | 0 | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 44 | Jordan Thompson | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 – 8 | 1 – 8 | – | – | ||||
| 56 | Kyle Fraser-Audit | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 62 | Andrew Pickett | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 89 | Dylan Husty | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 95 | Daniel Horta | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | 1 – 5 | 1 | – | – | |||
| 99 | Zack Mallough | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 54 | Job Reinhart | 0 | 1 | 0.5 | – | – | – | – | ||||
| TOTALS | 49 | 14 | 56 | 4 – 28 | 6 – 36 | 2 | 1-0 | – | 2 | |||
| # | QUEEN’S | SOLO | AST | TOTAL | SACKS-YDS | TFL-YDS | FF | FR-YDS | INT-YDS | BRUP | BLKS | QBH |
| 99 | Zac Sauer | 6 | 6 | 9 | 1 – 2 | 1 – 2 | – | – | ||||
| 42 | Jason Shamatutu | 6 | 3 | 7.5 | – | 0.5 – 1 | – | – | ||||
| 95 | Corey Flude | 5 | 3 | 6.5 | 1 – 2 | 1 – 2 | – | – | ||||
| 20 | Chris Mackey | 4 | 3 | 5.5 | – | – | – | – | 2 | |||
| 24 | Justin Bowman | 5 | 1 | 5.5 | – | – | – | 1-12 | 1 | |||
| 10 | Matt Pendergast | 5 | 0 | 5 | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 45 | Mike Moore | 3 | 4 | 5 | – | 0.5 – 0 | – | 1-5 | ||||
| 47 | Luke McQuilkin | 4 | 2 | 5 | – | 1 – 1 | – | 1-15 | ||||
| 3 | Jake Firlotte | 2 | 1 | 2.5 | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 29 | Nick Dowd | 2 | 0 | 2 | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 97 | Tanner Gennaro | 1 | 2 | 2 | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 14 | Wesley Mann | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 17 | Frederic Kinkead | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 21 | James Donald | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 87 | Peter Hannon | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 91 | Natu Myers | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 92 | Luke Ball | 0 | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 93 | Phoenix Grouse | 0 | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 16 | Austin Geddes | 0 | 1 | 0.5 | – | – | – | – | ||||
| TM | TEAM | – | – | – | – | |||||||
| TOTALS | 48 | 30 | 63 | 2 – 4 | 4 – 6 | – | 3-32 | 3 | ||||
| OTHER INFORMATION | |
|---|---|
| Location: Kingston Stadium: Richardson Attendance: 4275 Temperature: 12 C |
Referee: M. Drinkwalter Umpire: K. Baird Head Linesman: A. Monaco Line Judge: M. Burelle Back Judge: K. Medeiros Field Judge: H. Murphy Side Judge: F. Cooper |
Advocating for football prospects one story at a time.
CFC Prospect Game Spotlight: Alberta punter aiming for the moon
