Bishops Game Re-cap

We came away with a victory this past Friday night, but still feel we have a lot of aspects of our game that still need to be improved. We made some mistakes on both sides of the ball, and committed a lot of penalties that either gave away field position, or took us out of scoring position. We even let Bishops take the lead on us after a special teams turn-over deep in our own end. We had stopped them on second down inside our ten yard-line, but committed an off-sides that gave them a second chance to punch it in, and go up 7-0.

That being said, we did accomplish many good things throughout the game. Newcomer Tony Testa had a great game returning punts, and also caught a touchdown reception. Our offense was consistently able to move the ball, and racked up 355 total yards. This was especially key when we needed to regain field-position, and more often than not, we were able to do so. Though not all of our drives ended in scores, we forced Bishops to start deep in their own end repeatedly throughout the game. Our kicker Rene Paredes, was also a key factor in this respect, making a few angled punts that went out-of-bounds inside their twenty yard line.

Defensively we gave up 24 first downs and a lot of yards to the Gaiters offense, but we also took the ball away from them four times. We even converted one turnover into a score when William Miller picked up a fumble and returned it all the way. Then Nic Arsenault-Hum absolutely blew-up a Bishops receiver in the seam, and set the 'big hit' bar pretty high for us, as we'll attempt to improve upon his effort throughout the season. 

This Friday night we'll look to put another 'W' in the win column, as we go to McGill to play the Redmen.