OVFL: Mississauga, London wins set up playoff showdown this week

Varsity

The London Falcons and Mississauga Warriors (Ontario Varsity Football League) will face off next Saturday in London (Sat. 8pm, TD Waterhouse) to determine a playoff position. The winner of the game will go on into the first round of the OVFL Varsity playoffs, the sixth and final playoff spot in the Adam Conference. Mississauga and London have similar 3-4 records, but the Warriors currently have the edge in points because one of their losses happened in overtime. London has one of the top offenses (top passing game) and Mississauga has one of the top defenses.

The Warriors handed the Niagara Spears a 21 to 5 loss with a smothering defensive effort. The Mississauga Warriors, ‎​Led by #40 Chris Magno (St. FX Commit) and a solid Defensive Line effort came up big against a high powered Niagara Spears offense, ending the day with 4 interceptions and holding the Spears to the least amount of points they scored against any team all season (5), and holding them to less than 100 yards passing and less than 100 yards rushing. Defensive stand outs #40 Chris Mango, #51 Ese Mrabure-Ajufo (WLU commit), #96 Ricardo King-Kalloo, #99 D.J. Sackey, #47 Deonte Hughes-Leacock, #26 Jordyn Mittoo, #55 Sean Snary, and #56 Adam Selvaggio. Offensively, Niagara could not stop the run game led by RB’s #20 Lucas Gavac and #30 Kasean Davis (Mac Commit).

Defensive coordinator Gord Gallimore is proud of how his defense has played all year and had this to say about the effort against the Niagara Spears.

“Today, the boys became men. Our coaching staff challenged the defense to step it up and we reminded them that every game is a playoff game. They accepted that challenge and did some things that I even totally impressed with. We now have to get better again for next week as we take this one game a time.”

Mississauga scored all of its touchdowns on the ground last night from short distance. Troy Harrison found the endzone twice from a few yards out while Lukas Gavac punched one in from the one yard line.

The Falcons went out to an early 21 to 0 lead against the Cambridge Lions, cruising too an eventual 29 to 14 victory.