September 24, 2007

Success On The Road Continues With 50-0 Win Over St. Leonard

The Lions continued their streak of successive wins yesterday afternoon as they handily beat the St. Leonard Cougars by a score of 50-0.  The tone was set right from the beginning as Matthew John ran back the opening kickoff for a touchdown.  From there, the Lions offensive machine started to do its work and produced more scores with running back Sammy Mesidor getting 2 TD's along with Andrew Hopkins and Matthew John getting one each.  The only passing TD of the afternoon came from a 19 yard reception by Damian Hirt from QB Maxx St. James, who incidently also ran in for a two point convert on that same touchdown.  Hopkins was successful on 6 convert attempts.  Oddly enough, as a result of a series of successive turnovers, the Lions offense was not on the field at all during the second quarter.  This limited the amount of yardage they were able to generate and took them off of their previous average of 400 yards per game.

The Lions defense proved once again that they are a force to be reckoned with. Shaquille Lattimore came up with his second interception return for a TD this year.  Luka Ricard also came up with a pick and Phil Hebert blocked a punt earlier in the game to give the Lions offense great field position.  Defensive end Irving Fosu got the only QB sack of the game.  Linebackers Kevin Kilbourne and Aldo Cione were key players for the defense getting 6 tackles each.

Next week, the Lions continue their road trip where their next stop will be in Richelieu. They will take on the Pirates at Parc Polybel on Sunday, Sept. 30th at 2:00.

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