McGill comes from behind to defeat Queen’s in football exhibition

MONTREAL – The Queen’s Gaels lost 22-17 on a rainy afternoon in Montreal to the McGill Redmen in CIS football exhibition action. Nate Hobbs connected on a short pass with Peter Hannon for the Gaels lone touchdown.

GAME FLOW
The weather conditions slowed down the pace of the game early as the rain was a constant and neither team was able to sustain any offence to start out the game.

The Redmen got the first chance to hit the scoreboard on offence as Nicolas English lined up for a 23-yard field goal but missed. The ball went through the back of the end zone, and the Redmen picked up a single point.

Aided by a 15-yard run from Gaels running back Jonah Pataki, the Gaels found the scoreboard two possessions later as Nick Liberatore hit a 30-yard field goal to make it 3-1 Gaels.

From there the Gaels defence stood tall. First, a Cam Lawson sack forced McGill deep into their own territory. Rather than punt the ball away they conceded their first of three safeties on the afternoon making it 5-1 Gaels.

After Liberatore missed a field goal but picked up a single, McGill conceded another safety in the third quarter, and Queen’s opened up an 8-1 lead.

The Gaels defence stepped up once again as Tyler Roy got the McGill quarterback Frédéric Paquette-Perrault who fumbled and Roy collected on the Redmen two yard line. From there Nate Hobbsconnected with Peter Hannon for an easy two-yard score making it 15-1 Queen’s.

After a late touchdown in the third quarter, the Redmen put together a big fourth. It started out with a third and goal play where Paquette-Perrault threw a touchdown pass to Joel Soucy tying the game at 15-15.

After McGill had conceded a safety to give Queen’s a 17-15 lead, the Redmen pushed through with another touchdown as Dominic Perron caught his second score of the game securing the 22-17 win for the home team.

BY THE NUMBERS
7 – More days until the OUA season starts
6 – The Gaels defence forced McGill to concede a safety on three occasions, scoring a touchdown worth of points for Queen’s
2 – Touchdowns for  Perron in the game for McGill
36 – Yard run for Gaels running back Adam Black was the longest play of the day on offence

UP NEXT
The Gaels open up their 2016 OUA campaign as they travel to Waterloo next Sunday to take on the Laurier Golden Hawks. Kick-off is set for 1pm and the game can be seen live on OUA.tv.

Source: Shawn MacDonald (Queens Sports Information Officer)

Late Redmen rally quells Queen’s in CIS preseason football

MONTREAL — Rookie quarterback Frederic Paquette-Perrault came off the bench to throw two touchdown passes as McGill rallied from a 15-1 deficit to surprise Queen’s 22-17 in CIS preseason football on a rainy afternoon at Molson Stadium, Sunday.

The result leaves the Redmen — who went 3-5 in the Quebec conference last year — with a promising outlook for their 136th campaign as the Gaels dropped to 101-75-5 lifetime against McGill, in a series that dates back to 1884.

Queen’s, which posted a 5-3 record in the OUA conference last season, led 3-1 after the opening quarter, took a 6-1 lead into halftime and stretched that to 15-1 in the third before McGill mounted a comback. Trailing 15-8 heading into the final stanza, the Redmen offence outscored the Gaels 14-2 down the stretch.

Paquette-Perrault, a 6-foot-2, 212-pound product of College du Vieux-Montreal, completed seven of 13 pass attempts for 114 yards. The 20-year-old accounting freshman hooked up with rookie receiver Dominic Perron for a 17-yard TD catch to cap a six-play scoring drive at 8:05 of the third quarter, reducing the deficit to 15-8. He then found rookie receiverJoel Soucy on a one-yard TD toss just 19 seconds into the final stanza, knotting the score at 15-15.

“We’re happy about the direction the team is going in,” said Ronald Hilaire, in his third season as head coach at McGill. “We had a very grueling training camp and it’s good to see that we had the spirit to fight back today. In the first half, it wasn’t pretty but the guys kept believing and came back. Our offensive line did a very good job and we ran the ball well. Defensively, we played very well and didn’t give up many scoring opportunities aganst a pretty good team in Queen’s. It was a good test for us.”

After Queen’s took a 17-15 lead on their third safety of the game at 4:56 of the fourth quarter, McGill trumped that with the deployment of a third quarterback — sophomore Matthew Mannarino — who found rookie Dominic Perron in the endzone for the winning TD on a nine-yard scoring strike with just over five minutes remaining. Mannarino was 5-for-8 passing for 74 yards and Perron led all receivers with 58 yards on four receptions.

Sophomore pivot Nicolas English started the game and was 4-for-10 for 67 yards. Despite the wet conditions, none of the three McGill quarterbacks were picked off and they combined to direct an offence that amassed 348 yards compared to 243 by the Gaels. There was only one fumble in the game — by McGill — and the Redmen also maintained a lopsided 23-12 edge in first downs.

“We have the luxury of having three quarterbacks with the potential to lead this offence, so that’s an interesting race going on in that position,” noted Hilaire, who dressed 60 players, 12 more than normal for a regular season game, while Queen’s had 84 players in uniform.

The lone Gaels scoring major came early in the third quarter when starting quarterback Nate Hobbs found receiver Peter Hannon for a two-yard toss to put the visitors up 15-1. Hobbs was 15-for-22 passing, for 151 yards but was sacked six times by a voracious McGill defence that posted a 7-3 edge in quarterback sacks, including two apiece by defensive linemen Philippe Carrier and Ousmane Guindo. Carrier was credited with a team-high five tackles.

The Gaels open up their 2016 OUA campaign next Sunday when they travel to Waterloo to take on the Laurier Golden Hawks. McGill opens their RSEQ season on Friday, Sept. 2 when they host cross-town rival Concordia in the 48th annual Shaughnessy Cup game. Kickoff was moved up to 4:30 p.m. to accomodate a large student turnout as part of Frosh Week.

REDMEN RAP: McGill freshman Donavan Martel led all rushers with 82 yards on 11 carries before suffering a lower-body injury in the final quarter… Other Redmen to collect QB sacks were Alexandre Ghaly, Scott MacDonald-Ducharme and Anis Kali… McGill currently has 82 players on their roster, including 44 freshmen, 19 sophomores, nine juniors and 10 seniors… Among the accredited media at the game was a camera crew from ESPN.
Source: Earl Zukerman (McGill athletics)

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DATE:

8/21/2016

SITE:

Montreal, Qc

STADIUM:

Percival Molson Stadium

ATTENDANCE:

339

KICKOFF TIME:

16:09

END OF GAME:

19:00

DURATION:

2:51

TEMPERATURE:

22C

WIND:

6 kmh S

WEATHER:

Constant rain

Scoring Summary

Scoring Summary

Qtr	Time	Scoring Play	QUEEN	MCGILL
1st	05:48	QUEEN – Nick Liberatore 30 yd field goal 7 plays, 31 yards, TOP 3:27	3	1
2nd	13:24	QUEEN – TEAM 7 yd safety	5	1
3rd	13:59	QUEEN – TEAM 12 yd safety	8	1
3rd	09:49	QUEEN – Peter Hannon 2 yd pass from Nate Hobbs (Nick Liberatore kick ) 1 plays, 2 yards, TOP 0:12	15	1
3rd	06:55	MCGILL – Dominc Perron 17 yd pass from F. P-Perreault (Findlay Brown kick ) 6 plays, 77 yards, TOP 2:44	15	8
4th	14:41	MCGILL – Joel Soucy 1 yd pass from F. P-Perreault (Findlay Brown kick ) 5 plays, 71 yards, TOP 1:44	15	15
4th	10:04	QUEEN – TEAM 11 yd safety	17	15
4th	05:22	MCGILL – Dominc Perron 9 yd pass from Matt. Mannarino (Findlay Brown kick ) 8 plays, 75 yards, TOP 3:25	17	22
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