Photo Credit Stéphane Gaudreau
OTTAWA – Guelph kicker Daniel Ferraro and Laval
quarterback Hugo Richard are the latest entries in the CIS football
record book.
Ferraro, a fourth-year senior from Mississauga, Ont., was good on
each of his three field goal attempts Saturday afternoon in the
Gryphons’ regular season finale -- a 41-36 win at Laurier --
to bring his 2014 total to 26, one more than the previous national
mark set in 2008 by former Laval standout Christopher Milo, who now
stars with the CFL’s Saskatchewan Roughriders.
After splitting the uprights from 40 yards out in the opening
quarter, Ferraro matched Milo’s 2008 total in the second
stanza with an 18-yarder and then set the new CIS standard 2:26
into the fourth thanks to a 42-yard kick.
McMaster’s Tyler Crapigna, who last Saturday became the
all-time CIS leader in career field goals with 83, also started the
day with 23 on the season but settled for a single field goal in
the Marauders’ league finale at Ottawa – a 38-18 loss
-- to finish with 24 in 2014 and 84 in his career. Crapigna scored
four points against the Gee-Gees to end up in third place on the
CIS career scoring list with 404.
Meanwhile, another single-season CIS record fell on Friday night in
Montreal, where Richard resumed his sensational rookie campaign
with a 379-yard, three-touchdown performance in a 53-14 win at
McGill. With one game left on Laval’s league schedule (next
Saturday at Montreal), the native of St. Bruno, Que., has already
racked up 2,440 passing yards this fall, eclipsing the previous CIS
rookie standard of 2,383 set in 2011 by Sherbrooke’s
Jérémi Roch, who benefited from an extended nine-game
RSEQ schedule that season.
Richard, who also set a new RSEQ mark for most TD passes in a
season on Friday (22), had already shattered the CIS rookie record
in that category last Sunday.
NOTE: In the Guelph-Laurier contest, Golden Hawks’ running
back Dillon Campbell added 203 rushing yards to his season total to
finish league play with 1,458 yards on the ground, the sixth
highest total in CIS history.
About the 50th TELUS Vanier Cup
Canadian Interuniversity Sport will celebrate the 50th TELUS Vanier
Cup throughout its 2014 football season. For the first time in
history, the championship game will be staged in Montreal - at
Percival Molson Memorial Stadium - on Saturday, November 29, at 1
p.m. ET, live on Sportsnet and Radio-Canada.
Official TELUS Vanier Cup website (including ticket information) www.vaniercup.com
About Canadian Interuniversity Sport
Canadian Interuniversity Sport is the national governing body of
university sport in Canada. Every year, over 11,500
student-athletes and 700 coaches from 56 universities and four
regional associations vie for 21 national championships in 12
different sports. CIS also provides high performance international
opportunities for Canadian student-athletes at Winter and Summer
Universiades, as well as numerous world university championships.
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