Gaiters beat Mounties in OT thriller 32-31

Nicolas earns first U Sports victory on the road ahead of homecoming

After 60 full minutes of football, overtime was needed to determine a winner at Mount Allison University this past Friday night between the Gaiters and Mounties.

After both team’s scored touchdown’s in the first part of overtime, Vincent Dube’s missed field goal resulted in a rouge allowing the Gaiters to go up 3231. After an impressive defensive stand by the Purple and Silver pushing the Mounties outside of field goal range. Mount Allison’s attempt at a rouge of their own fell on the 5-yard line giving the overtime victory to the Gaiters.

The game had a slow start with no scoring by either team, Bishop’s got scored the first touchdown of the game when Dashaun Smellie caught a 1-yard pass from Mathieu Demers to take a 103 lead at the half.

The third quarter saw the Mounties take control of the game with two touchdowns of their own on a pair of receptions by Quinn Leblanc from Jakob Loucks coming on 42 and 10-yard passes.

After Leblanc scored his third straight touchdown to put the Mounties up 24-10 in the fourth quarter, Bishop’s mounted a late comeback in the final two minutes scoring twice to tie the game, including a 1-yard run by Trey Wilson-millings as the clock expired to force the extra frame.

Mathieu Demers got the second consecutive start for the Purple and Silver passing for 387-yards on 29 of 46 passes and a touchdown.

Nathan Walker continuously proves to be an explosive asset for the Gaiters, the third-year receiver hauled in a total of 10 receptions for 136 yards helping to move the chains, including a 20-yard reception to help set up the game tying score. Smellie in addition to the touchdown finished the game with 6 receptions for 69 yards.

On defence, third year linebacker Maxx Toutant led Bishop’s with 7 total tackles.

This upcoming week the Gaiters will take up the defence of Coulter Field for homecoming September 23 at 2 pm against the St. Francis Xavier X-men (1-2) on Saturday. The X-men will be well rested coming off their bye week before travelling to Lennoxville, in their last game the X-men lost to Acadia by a score of 38-24.