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Nigel Applewhaite
Gerry Marentette

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Lancer Football defeats Warriors

Box Score The Windsor Lancer Football team defeated the Waterloo Warriors 63-4 in their first road game of the season on Saturday afternoon in Waterloo, ON. 

The Lancers are now 3-0 on the season, heading into next Friday nights match-up against the York Lions in Toronto. This is the first time the Lancers have opened the season with a 3-0 record since 2006, when the Blue & Gold finished the year with a 6-3 record. 

Fifth year quarterback Austin Kennedy went 10-for-13 and 141 yards and had three touchdowns. Kennedy is now only 8 passing touchdowns away from breaking the OUA career record for overall passing touchdowns. The record is currently held by Josh Sacobie from Queen's (2004-08) with 79. On the ground, Kennedy added 23 yards. 

Nigel Applewhaite led the Lancers on the ground with 166 yards and two touchdowns. Beau Lumley contributed 105 yardsm while Nick Vincent chipped in 76 yards and two touchdowns. Jeff Masson led the Lancer receivers with 47 yards, while Dallas Boow, Mark Carter and Scott McEwen each had a touchdown in the air. 

The Lancer defense held the Warriors to just 138 total offensive yards. 

Windsor opened the game with a sense of determination, running the ball often and putting pressure of the Warriors defensive line. The Lancers Tarrance Crawford opened the scoring on their first drive of the game with an 18-yard rushing touchdown to open the game 7-0. Windsor's Mark Carter would connect on a 33-yard pass from Austin Kennedy to push the score to 14-0 before the end of the quarter.

The Lancer's would continue to push the offensive in the second quarter when Scott McEwan made a 16-yard touchdown just 1:23 into the quarter. Nick Vincent and Dallas Boow would add majors along with a field goal from Anthony Malandruccolo before reaching half time. Lancers entered the break with a 38-0 lead.

The Warriors would come out of the break and continue to be pressured by the Lancer's strong running game. After a Malandruccolo field goal conversion, Warriors would add four points in way of safeties to get erase the goose egg. A big story of the game was total penalties as both teams were agitating each other often and combined for 32 penalties (304 yards) in the physical contest.

The Lancers would continue to shine as Applewhaite scored a 1-yard and 45-yard run respectively in back-to-back possessions to put the stamp on the game and move to 55-4 Lancers.  Vincent would add his second TD of the game to close the game out 63-4.

Windsor will now travel to Toronto on Friday night, September 26th, to take on the York Lions. Kick-off is scheduled for 7:07pm and can be seen live at www.oua.tv. 


 
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