Mac beats guelph, loses kicker Crapigna (video & stats)

The McMaster Mauraders hosted the Guelph Gyrphons in week 7 OUA action on Thursday night. The mauraders were up 40 to 15 after three quarters and held off a late charge from the gryphons to prevail 43 to 35.

Bad news for Mac as star freshmen kicker / punter tyler crapigna (picture) broke his leg with 3 seconds to go in the game.

HAMILTON, Ont. – Quarterback Kyle Quinlan (South Woodslee, Ont.) and running back Joey Nemet (Burlington, Ont.) combined for 545-yards of offence in the No. 9 McMaster Marauders 43-35 victory over the Guelph Gryphons at Ron Joyce Stadium tonight.
Quinlan threw for 365-yards on 19 of 31 passing with two touchdowns and two interceptions. Nemet rushed the ball for 180 yards on 23 carries with three touchdowns adding a touchdown reception to hold off a late surge by the visiting Gryphons.
The Marauders opened the scoring early with a three-yard touchdown run by Nemet. Four minutes later Nemet struck again rushing the ball 49-yards to the Guelph one yard line and then found the end zone on the next play for his second major of the game. McMaster would score once more in the quarter when Quinlan completed a 72-yard touchdown pass to Mike DiCroce (Hamilton, Ont.) to score his first touchdown since returning from injury. The McMaster defense held the Gryphons scoreless in the first quarter giving them an early 21-0 advantage.
Guelph found the scoreboard midway through the second quarter when Jedd Gardner (Niagara Falls, Ont.) returned a missed field goal attempt 130-yards for a touchdown matching the OUA return record. McMaster’s only points in the quarter came from a Guelph safety, and a 33-yard field goal from Crapigna to give them a 26-7 lead at halftime.
McMaster built their lead to 26 points early in the third quarter when Quinlan connected on a 20-yard pass to Nemet. Two minutes later Nemet found himself in the end zone again, following a 66-yard rush, with a one-yard touchdown run to give the Marauders a commanding 40-7 lead.
As the game progressed the Gryphons continued to adjust on offence, and began to cut into McMaster’s hefty lead. With less than two minutes left in the third quarter, Guelph quarterback Chris Rosetti (Mississauga, Ont.) threw a 17-yard pass to Gardner and then connected with Dillon Dimitroff (Burlington, Ont.) for the two-point conversion.
Down 40-15, Guelph scored again early in the fourth quarter with a touchdown reception from Dimitroff reducing the McMaster lead to nineteen points.
The Marauders would only score three points in the final quarter on a Tyler Crapigna (Ottawa, Ont.) field goal and the Gryphons would find the end zone twice more.
Guelph got within eight points when Rossetti connected with Kevin Campbell (Pickering, Ont.) on a 20-yard touchdown pass with 1:24 left in the game.
McMaster ran down the clock, but was forced to punt with 14 seconds left. On the ensuing play the Guelph specials team attempted to block the Crapigna punt, but ended up knocking him down, and out of the game, with a serious injury. The referees choose to call the game with three seconds remaining on the clock.
With the win McMaster improved to 5-2 on the season and secured a home playoff date. Guelph fell to 3-3 on the season and continue to battle for a spot in the post season.
McMaster returns to action next Saturday, October 16 [SUP]th[/SUP] when they travel to the Varsity Centre in Toronto to take on the Varsity Blues. Kick is at 1:00 pm.
Notes: McMaster reached a single season attendance record at Ron Joyce Stadium with 17, 563 fans for their four regular season home dates.

43 McMaster vs. Guelph 35 10/07/2010 :: 7:00 pm @ Hamilton, Ont. Team Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Tot Guelph 0 7 8 20 35 McMaster 21 5 14 3 43 Attendance: 2290 Click here for Game Recap / Cliquez ici pour résumé du match Quarter #1 McMaster – TD Nemet, Joey 3 run (Crapigna, Tyler convert) 2:55 McMaster – TD Nemet, Joey 1 run (Crapigna, Tyler convert) 7:57 McMaster – TD DiCroce, Michae 72 pass from Quinlan, Kyle (Crapigna, Tyler convert) 9:45 Quarter #2 (M Fortino convert) 8:16 McMaster – Safety (Team conceded) 11:37 McMaster – FG Crapigna, Tyler 33 14:02 Quarter #3 McMaster – TD Nemet, Joey 20 pass from Quinlan, Kyle (Crapigna, Tyler convert) 4:36 McMaster – TD Nemet, Joey 1 run (Crapigna, Tyler convert) 6:38 Guelph – TD J Gardner 17 pass from C Rossetti 13:12 Quarter #4 Guelph – TD D Dimitroff 7 pass from C Rossetti 3:24 Guelph – TD S Lagace 23 run (M Fortino convert) 9:05 McMaster – FG Crapigna, Tyler 34 11:16 Guelph – TD K Campbell 20 pass from C Rossetti (M Fortino convert) 13:36

McMaster	Guelph
PASSING Player COMP ATT YDS TD INT LG Kyle Quinlan 19 31 365 2 2 72 Matthew Peressini 0 1 0 0 0 0	PASSING Player COMP ATT YDS TD INT LG Chris Rossetti 16 24 221 3 0 33 Luke Nangle 0 4 0 0 1 0
RUSHING Player ATT YDS TD LG FMB Joseph Nemet 23 180 3 66 0 Matthew Peressini 4 37 0 14 0 Kyle Quinlan 4 31 0 10 0 Ryan Kotar 2 10 0 11 0	RUSHING Player ATT YDS TD LG FMB Chris Rossetti 9 65 0 21 0 Steve Lagace 6 47 1 23 0 Nick Fitzgibbon 7 40 0 15 0 R Farquharson 4 10 0 6 0
RECEIVING Player NO YDS LG TD Michael Dicroce 9 169 72 1 Matthew Peressini 3 62 25 0 Kevin D’hollander 3 62 27 0 Joshua Kreidl 3 52 25 0 Joseph Nemet 1 20 20 1	RECEIVING Player NO YDS LG TD Kevin Campbell 3 79 33 1 Jedd Gardner 4 62 31 1 Dillon Dimitroff 4 46 27 1 Steve Lagace 1 13 13 0 Dave Honig 1 12 12 0 Nick Fitzgibbon 3 9 4 0
DEFENSE Player SOLO T ASS T SACKSUA INT(yds) Ryan Chmielewski 3 0 0 0 William Thomas 5 0 0 0 Dylan Roesch-crane 1 0 0 0 Nelson Hutchings 3 0 0 0 Ryan Saunders 1 0 0 0 Matthew Sewell 1 0 0 0 Tanvir Bhangoo 1 0 0 0 Kareem-anthony Ferreira 3 0 0 0 Adam Dickson 1 0 0 0 Daniel Baronas 3 0 0 0 Stephen Dennis 1 0 0 0 Mario (joey) Cupido 2 1 0 0 Allan Dicks 4 1 0 0 Ryan Kotar 1 0 0 0 Byron Metcalfe 5 0 0 0 John Hartnett 1 0 0 0 Scott Caterine 3 0 0 0 Cory Bye 2 0 0 0 Steven Ventresca 6 0 0 0 Trevor Gary 2 0 0 0
DEFENSE Player SOLO T ASS T SACKSUA INT(yds) Adam Dunk 6 1 0 0 Matthew Rossetti 6 0 0 0 Curtis Rukavina 1 0 0 0 Scott Eggleton 2 0 0 0 Kalven Seilis 3 0 0 0 Brett Macdonald 1 0 0 0 Sebastian Howard 1 0 0 0 Matthew Suzuki 5 0 0 0 Jake Reinhart 3 0 0 0 Taylor Palmer 3 0 0 0 James Savoie 4 0 0 0 Zach Androschuk 1 0 0 0 Jordan Duncan 8 1 0 36
PUNTING Player NO YDS LG Tyler Crapigna 8 283 39	PUNTING Player NO YDS LG Evan Short 10 390 64
KICKOFFS Player NO YDS LG Stephen Dennis 5 267 0	KICKOFFS Player NO YDS LG Mike Fortino 7 168 0
PUNT RETURN Player NO YDS LG Robert Babic 6 12 8 Stephen Dennis 1 0 0 Alessandro Francella 2 5 5	PUNT RETURN Player NO YDS LG Jedd Gardner 1 130 130 Carl Trivieri 2 17 13 Nick Anapolsky 4 13 9
KICK RETURN Player NO YDS LG Robert Babic 1 0 0 Daniel Baronas 1 0 0 Gary Spero 1 0 0 Bryan Dowd 1 16 16 Michael Dicroce 2 0 0	KICK RETURN Player NO YDS LG Jedd Gardner 1 20 20 Tim Berta 1 11 11 Nick Anapolsky

Source: Jessica Barrett, Athletic Communications