COMMITTED TO EXCELLENCE

August 28, 2009

Lions beat Laurentien Wildcats 28 - 19.

Lions now 3 - 0.

The North Shore Lions brought down another opponent Friday night.
The upstart Laurentien Wildcats now playing in the Bill Allan division in 2009 came in to
Riverdale sporting a 2 - 0 record and intent on being the first team to beat the Lions in the past 5 years. However the Lions showed their true metal and beat the Wildcats 28 - 19.

The Lions were the first to open the scoring on a score by Tevin Gray, Eric Paquette called upon for kicking duties in the absence of regular kicker Shawn Steen, kicked the extra point.
Shortly after the Lions added and extra point when punter Francis Chiquette came in and booted a ball thru the endzone for a rouge. After a score by the Wildcats to make the score 8 - 6. The Lions came back with 2 more scores of their own to open a 21 - 6 lead. Kevin Kyere and Cedric Joseph scored the majors, Eric Paquette converted 1 of the TD's successfully.
The 2 teams went into half time with the Lions leading 21 - 6.

The second half started with the Lions quickly marching down field, however an interception by the opposition just as quickly snuffed out the drive. The opposition wasn't going to lie down just yet and scored 2 TD's to cut the Lions lead to 21 - 19.
However the Lions defense finally came thru and started to shutdown the opposition.
After a few more possessions for each team without any major offense being created. The Lions punt team finally came thru and forced a fumble which they recovered, giving the Lions good field position at midfield.
The offense then took the ball down the rest of the field and David Byrns ran the ball in for the final score of the game. After that the Lions defense shutdown the Wildcats and didn't allow them any room to score again.
The Lions once again prevailed as winners 28 - 19.

The Lions next game will be played on the road Sept 5th 16:00 at Westwood park in St. Lazare.


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