Box Score The Lancer Football team closed out the regular season portion of their 2011 season with an impressive 40-15 victory over the York Lions on Saturday afternoon at York Stadium.

With the victory, Windsor finishes the regular season with a 5-3 record and in a tie for 4th place in the conference. They will travel to Ottawa next weekend for a highly anticipated re-match with the Ottawa Gee Gees in the OUA playoffs.

On Saturday afternoon, Lancer quarterback Austin Kennedy (Windsor, Ont.) went 14-18 for 338 yards and four touchdowns on the day before being replaced by rookie Andrew Downer (Toronto), who went 5-8 for 42 yards. Cory Fernandes (Mississauga, Ont.) led all receivers with 128 yards on eight receptions for a single touchdown, and Shomari Grant (Kissimmee, Fla.) led the team in rushing with 32 yards on 12 carries. On defence, Jermaine Simpson (Brampton, Ont.) picked up a team-high four tackles.

The Lancers, led by Kennedy, scored all 40 of their points in the first half. Kennedy entered the game sixth in the CIS with a completion rate of 63.9% an average of 253 passing yards per game, and he was hitting all of his targets early.

On the Lancers' second drive of the game, Kennedy took advantage of a York fumble that put the Lancers deep in Lions territory by finding Jordan Brescacin (Tecumseh, Ont.) with a 22-yard touchdown pass on the very next play to put the Lancers up 7-0 early.

On the Lancers' following drive, after the Lions came up with a couple of stops in the red zone to prevent another Kennedy touchdown, Dan Cerino (Stoney Creek, Ont.) stepped up and hit an 11-yard field goal that put the Lancers up 10-0.

Kennedy wouldn't be denied long, however. Two drives later, after completing a 36-yard pass to Brescacin that put the Lancers on the Lions' two-yard line, Kennedy would tuck the ball away and run it in himself, putting the Lancers up 17-0.

With the clock ticking down on the first quarter, Udoka Nwaesei (Windsor, Ont.) intercepted a deep pass from Frank, putting the ball in Kennedy's hands one more time. Kennedy quickly made the Lions pay, finding Evan Pszczonak (Amherstburg, Ont.) with a 59-yard touchdown pass on the final play of the quarter to put the Lancers up 24-0 at the break.

The Lions tried to contain the potent Windsor offence in the second quarter, but again weren't able to keep Kennedy off the board.

After the Lancers recorded a single point on a rouge early in the quarter, Kennedy went back to work, airing out a 49-yard touchdown pass to Fernandes that put the Lancers up 32-0.
  
A few drives later, Kennedy would find his favourite target, Brescacin, with a second touchdown pass, this time from 20 yards out, to increase the Lancers' lead to 39-0. The Lancers made their lead an even 40 with a second rouge moments later.

The Lions finally found the scoreboard with less than one minute remaining in the half courtesy of a one-yard touchdown run.

York had a chance to further cut into the Lancers' lead before the end of the quarter, but their 48-yard field goal attempt would come up short of the uprights, sending the Lions into the break down 40-7.

With Kennedy and many of starters resting on the bench for the second half, the Lancers were able to get some newcomers some reps to close out the game as they cruised to the 40-15 victory.

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