OTTAWA – McMaster kicker Tyler Crapigna set a pair of
prestigious Canadian university football records on Saturday in a
27-10 home win over Laurier at Ron Joyce Stadium in Hamilton.
Crapigna, a native of Nepean, Ont., playing in his fifth and final
campaign with the Marauders, was successful on each of his four
field goal attempts on the afternoon giving him 83 for his career,
a new CIS standard, and 23 on the season, a new OUA conference mark
and two shy of the national record (25, Christopher Milo, Laval,
2008).
The previous CIS career record of 82 had been set by former
Sherbrooke standout William Dion from 2008 to 2012, while the old
OUA single-season standard of 22 was shared by McMaster’s
Michael Ray (2003) and Western’s Lirim Hajrullahu (2013).
Crapigna only held the OUA season record by himself for about an
hour however, as Guelph’s Daniel Ferraro kicked four field
goals of his own on Saturday in a win against Western and also sits
at 23 in 2014 with one game remaining on the Gryphons’
schedule.
Crapigna will have one last chance to add to these totals –
and to break the CIS single-season record - next Saturday when the
nationally third-ranked and OUA-leading Marauders (7-0) wrap up
league play at Ottawa.
The 5-foot-7, 170-pound economics student, who split the uprights
from 29 and 20 yards out early in the contest against Laurier, tied
both the CIS and OUA marks on the final play of the opening half
with an 18-yard kick and made history with 7:54 remaining in the
fourth quarter thanks to a 41-yarder.
With 15 points on the day, Crapigna also moved to third place on
the CIS career scoring list with 400 points, trailing only
Hajrullahu, who tallied 422 points for Western from 2009 to 2013,
and former Ottawa running back and kicker Neil Lumsden, a recent
Canadian Football Hall of Fame inductee who had 410 for the
Gee-Gees from 1972 to 1975.
Crapigna, who was named to the first all-Canadian team in both 2011
and 2012, kicked the winning field goal in overtime in the 2011
Vanier Cup to lift McMaster to a thrilling 41-38 victory over Laval
and the only national title in program history.
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
About the 50th TELUS Vanier Cup
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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