SHERBROOKE β The No. 8 ranked Bishopβs Gaiters travel to MontrealΒ on FridayΒ to face the McGill Redmen in RSEQ University Football. The two high-powered offenses will battle for the first time this season as they put their identical 3-2 records on the line at Percival Molson Stadium. Kickoff is set forΒ 7 p.m.
The Gaiters are coming off an offensive performance for the ages.Β They put up 38 points and 630 total yards of offense against the nationβs top ranked defense and team at the time, the Laval Rouge et Or (5-0).Β Unfortunately for Bishopβs Laval scored 46 and won the game.Β The Gaiters performance was enough for the Football Reporters of Canada to vote Laval out of top spot in the country; they currently are ranked second behind the Western Mustangs.
Bishopβs quarterback Jordan Heather (Oromocto, N.B.) became the schoolβs most prolific passer with his 538 yards through the air.Β He teamed up 11 times on the day with receiver Alexander Fox (Montreal) who also set the bar for most receiving yards in purple and silver.Β Fox finished the day with 12 receptions for 170 yards and a pair of touchdowns.
McGill is coming off a shootout of their own as they topped the winless Concordia Stingers 53-52 in overtime.Β The Redmenβs Pierre-Luc Dussault (Quebec City) was 29-46 for 538 yards with three touchdowns and an interception.Β That performance earned him RSEQ and CIS Offensive Player of the Week honours.
The Gaiters and Redmen will face each other twice in the last three games of the year.Β They playΒ on FridayΒ in Montreal and again onΒ Oct. 26Β in Lennoxville to close out the season.
βEvery game in this league is tough,β said Bishopβs head coach Kevin Mackey at the Gaiters weekly Touchdown Club, held Thursdayβs atΒ noonΒ at the Old Lennoxville Golf Club.Β βWe have to continue to be discipline and play as a team.Β Dussault was the Cegep double-A MVP last season; he is a player and a threat to run the ball as well.β
Photo credit: Β Andrew Dobrowolskyj
Source: Β Marty Rourke, Bishop’s Gaiters Sports Information
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