MONTREAL – Isaac Lauzon, a freshman from Gatineau, Que., rushed for 134 yards and a pair of touchdowns as the Sherbrooke Vert & Or defeated McGill 44-26 before 1,785 in CIS football at Percival Molson Stadium, Friday.
It marked Sherbrooke’s first win of the season and improved their record to 1-3, while the Redmen evened their record at 2-2 in the RSEQ conference. The Vert & Or, which hasn’t lost to McGill since 2009, extended their win streak over the Redmen to six straight, improving to 10-5 lifetime in head-to-head meetings.
Sherbrooke took advantage of seven McGill turnovers, including a blocked punt that led directly to a touchdown. They jumped into a 21-0 first quarter lead, highlighted by Carl Gagnon-Bisaillon’s 70-yard pass-and-run scoring play from quarterback Jeremi Roch before the game was five minutes old. A seven-yard TD toss to Gabriel Goulet at 10:31 put Sherbrooke ahead 19-0.
Lauzon tallied both of his majors in the final quarter, one on a two-yard plunge midway through the stanza and the other on a 76-yard breakaway on the final play of the game after it appeared that Sherbrooke was going to run out the clock and kneel down.
Roch went the distance, making 12 of 27 passes for 174 yards, a pair of TDs and one interception.
McGill, which had a 22-18 edge in first downs, outscored Sherbrooke 26-24 the rest of the way but it was too little, too late.
The teams combined to generated 763 yards of net offence, including 401 by the Vert & Or.
Senior Jonathan Collin of Greenfield Park, Que., started at quarterback for McGill but completed only 12 of 23 passes for 119 yards and was intercepted twice, which led to him being benched in the second half. Understudy Pierre-Luc Dussault of Quebec City added a spark to the McGill offence. He was good on 16-of-28 attempts for a game-high 207 yards and one pick. He also led the Redmen in rushing with 41 yards on eight carriers.
The Redmen will travel to Concordia for the Montreal Shrine Bowl on Sept. 28, while Sherbrooke returns to Montreal to take on the No.4-ranked Carabins on Sept. 29.
Photo Credit: Ryan Reisert
Source: Earl Zukerman, McGill Redmen Sports Information
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