Queen's at Waterloo - 20131011
Photos of the Queen's Golden Gaels vs. the Waterloo Warriors at Waterloo University Stadium, Waterloo, ON on October 11, 2013.
All photos are by Jeff Chan. Jeff is past Chairman of the Vanier Cup - Canada's University Football Championship and the Premier University Event in Canada, and was a member of the Canadian College Bowl Board and Vanier Cup Organizing Committee from 1978-2000.
All photos are Copyright (c) Jeff Chan 2000-2013, and may be used for personal non-commercial applications including by Queen's University, the CIS and its member conferences, so long as photo credits are shown or the photos are otherwise attributed to Jeff Chan. All other rights, including for all corporate use, are reserved.
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QUEEN'S 78, WATERLOO 21
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No. 5 GAELS DOWN WARRIORS 78-21 IN WATERLOO
By Shawn MacDonald, Queen's Sports Information
The No. 5 Queen's Gaels beat the Waterloo Warriors 78-21 marking the second most points scored in a single game in Queen's football history.
Dillon Wamsley (London, Ont.) also had a record setting night for the Gaels as his 52-yard field goal tied the Gaels longest field goal record set by Blaine Shore in 1979.
"I really thought there were a lot of good things tonight," said head coach Pat Sheahan after the game. "They were undermanned tonight but there was some great execution. Guys really made some great plays and we had some new faces in there on defence and they played pretty well."
Doug Corby (Burlington, Ont.) finished with three touchdowns, two receiving and one on a return, to lead the Gaels while Jesse Andrews (Arnprior, Ont.), Daniel Heslop (Scarborough, Ont.) and Jonah Pataki (Wallaceburg, Ont.) all ran for over 100 yards each. Billy McPhee (Burlington, Ont.) was 12-15 with 215 yards and three touchdowns all coming in the first half.
Waterloo was led by Brian Chris who threw for 195 yards and two touchdowns. Glorian Ganza and Christian Lewis hauled in both scores from Chris and Alexander Doczi added his own on the ground.
In the first quarter the Gaels scored early and often. Heslop started things off with a 42-yard run for a touchdown and McPhee followed up with a 63-yard connection to Giovanni Aprile (Scarborough, Ont.).
A Corby punt-return 53 yards for a touchdown was followed by Cory Dyer (Gananoque, Ont.) who added a touchdown off a fumble recovery to bring the Gaels lead to 28-0.
After the Warriors conceded a safety Wamsley closed out the first quarter with his record tying 52-yard field goal and the Gaels were out in front 33-0 after one.
Ryan Granberg (Sherwood Park, Alta.) started the second quarter with a five-yard rushing score and the Warriors got their first points on the board right after. Christian Mahler blocked Wamsley's punt attempt and the Warriors recovered. Chris then connected with Ganza for a 10-yard touchdown.
It was all Gaels afterwards with McPhee connecting on passing touchdowns to both Corby and Scott Macdonell (Montreal) to close out the first half up 54-7.
The second half saw Andrews add a pair of rushing scores and Corby nab his third touchdown of the night. Waterloo added two more scores as Chris connected with Lewis and Doczi ran in a two-yard score after the Warriors took a fumble to inside the Gaels 10.
The Gaels finished with a 78-21 final, just two points shy of tying their all-time high for points scored in a game.
Derek Wiggan (Toronto) led the way for the Gaels on defense recording six tackles, four sacks and a forced fumble.
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GAELS THUMP HAPLESS WARRIORS; IMPROVE TO 6-1
By Claude Scilley, SportKingston
It was just the kind of game the Queen’s Golden Gaels needed, not so much to impress anyone but themselves.
On a clear, calm, unseasonably warm night, the Gaels took it to the hapless Waterloo Warriors, beating them 78-21. No adjectives or colourful verbs are necessary for a contest where the score pretty much says all you need to know, but consider a few highlights:
• In improving its record to 6-1, Queen’s led 33-0 before the game was 12 minutes old; the Gaels punted only twice all night.
• Three of the four tailbacks Queen’s employed rushed for better than 100 yards apiece. The exception was starter Ryan Granberg, who had a paltry 93 yards when he came out of the game early in the second quarter.
• The Gaels rushed for 499 yards — 490 more than the Warriors — and had 800 yards of total offence. They sacked beleaguered Waterloo quarterback Brian Chris eight times.
• Dillon Wamsley tied a 34-year-old school record with a 52-yard field goal in the first quarter, matching the previous best, booted by Blaine Shore, in 1979.
The outcome might have been more severe had one of those two punts not been blocked at the Queen’s 10-yard line, and a Queen’s fumble at the Waterloo one-yard line not been returned 92 yards to set up the Warriors’ final touchdown.
Had Wamsley not missed two shorter field-goal attempts after his record-tying boot, and Jonah Pataki not fumbled on the one-yard line on his way into the end zone in the fourth quarter, the Gaels easily would have surpassed the team record for points in a game, 80, set in an 80-0 debacle at York in 2008.
As it was, the Gaels — with freshman Pataki rushing nine straight plays, for 72 yards — got to the Waterloo five-yard line with a little more than a minute to play in the game. Quarterback Ryan Mitchell dutifully took a knee three plays in a row to avoid scoring his team’s 11th touchdown of the game.
It was too little, too late, for some Waterloo fans, who were giving the Queen’s bench the business.
“What do you do?” Gaels coach Pat Sheahan mused. “We threw the ball 19 times and that was it. It was a ridiculous score … but you still have to do something. It’s a difficult spot. I like (Waterloo coach) Joe Paopao. He’s a good guy. You don’t want to be accused of rubbing it in, but you want your kids to play hard so they don’t get hurt. In this game at this level, if you don’t play hard, you’re going to get nicked.
“That’s what our kids did — they came down, they played hard, they took this game seriously, they were excited to play and they did a good job.”
Not to diminish the superb play of Granberg, Daniel Heslop (125 yards), Jesse Andrews (168 yards) and Jonah Pataki (118 yards) — the latter three all personal-best performances — it was a night when the principal’s pet turtle could have averaged seven yards a carry behind an inspired Queen’s offensive line.
On such a night it was suggested to Sheahan that his only failing as a coach was not to have a fifth tailback to put in the game.
Sheahan chuckled and said he resisted the urge to slip Granberg back onto the field long enough to surpass the 100-yard plateau, and make it 4-for-4 for 100-yard running backs, a rare achievement, indeed.
“I talked to him on the sideline and I said, ‘You know what? With my luck and your history, I’m not putting you back in,’” Sheahan said.
Granberg got hurt late in the final regular-season game last year and missed the playoffs.
Many people have been waiting for the Gaels to have their breakout game and there’s no question all facets had splendid displays Friday night. Queen’s first four touchdowns — scored in the first seven minutes of the game — came on a 42-yard run on a fake punt, a 63-yard pass, a 53-yard punt return and a fumble recovery near the Waterloo goal line.
Was this finally the Queen’s team everybody been expecting to see all year?
“We’re getting there,” said Sean Plumley, the only veteran linebacker healthy enough to play Friday night. “There is still some improvement that we can make, but we’re getting there.”
Jesse Andrews, who rushed for a career-best 168 yards on 10 carries in a little more than 10 minutes of the third quarter, agreed.
“It’s our seventh game in but I think this is the one that everyone wanted. It gave us a chance to show what we’re capable of.
“We have the talent. We have a lot of chemistry, too. It was just a matter of time in terms of throwing it all together and coming out as successfully as we did (tonight). It just seemed like every aspect of the game was finally clicking.”
Corby, who had a career-best three-touchdown game, was more to the point.
“This is the Queen’s team everybody’s been waiting to see,” he said. “There were a few mistakes we made here and there but other than that we were just flying. This is the team we’re going to be from here on out.
“With playoffs coming and Guelph next week this was a big game to try and get things going. We’re ready to go now.”
Even against an opponent as clearly over-matched as Waterloo, a 1-6 team floundering so badly Friday wasn’t even the first time this year they’ve allowed 78 points?
“That’s what teams said about Laurier, right?” Corby said, referring to last week’s game when another 1-5 team took the Gaels to overtime before losing. “You’ve got to be aware of every opponent.”
Plumley made note of the fact the Gaels were missing eight players who have started a game on defence this year.
“We were missing a lot of guys but some of the younger guys stepped up and played some good games. We had to get by this week and I think we did a pretty good job, as a team, outplaying our opponent for most of the game.
“We definitely needed it. This season we haven’t been able to bring it all together for one game. I think we can improve on this but it’s good to get everybody playing well. This will help our team gain some confidence.”
Andrews said it was difficult to identify a catalyst for the terrific performance, given that players have been vowing for a month it was time they collectively got their act together.
“The previous six games have been too close for our liking,” he said. “We just came together as a team and said it’s time to step up, it’s time to actually do the work, it’s time to show what we can do.
“It’s now or never. We’re in the playoffs, effectively.”
Indeed, Friday’s results — in addition to the Queen’s victory, Guelph survived an early scare at Carleton, where the Ravens had the Gryphons in a 10-10 tie early in the second quarter before ultimately losing 48-12 — ensure the Gaels’ final game next Saturday against undefeated Guelph will be a showdown for second place, and the prizes that go with it: A first-round playoff bye and a home game in the semifinals.
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GAME STATS
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First Quarter
Qns — TD, Heslop 42 run (Wamsley convert) 2:49
Qns — TD, Aprile 63 pass from McPhee (Wamsley convert) 4:45
Qns — TD, Corby 53 punt return (Wamsley convert) 6:00
Qns — TD, Dyer 5 fumble recovery (Wamsley convert) 6:44
Qns — Safety, Smith concedes 8:04
Qns — FG, Wamsley 52 11:12
Second Quarter
Qns — TD, Granberg 5 run (Wamsley convert) 2:38
Wat — TD, Ganza 10 pass from Chris (Coy convert) 10:56
Qns — TD, Corby 30 pass from McPhee (Wamsley convert) 13:18
Qns — TD, Macdonell 24 pass from McPhee (Wamsley convert) 14:49
Third Quarter
Qns — TD, Andrews 33 run (two-point convert attempt failed) 2:02
Qns — Single, Wamsley 75 kickoff 2:03
Qns — TD, Corby 50 pass from McPhee (Wamsley convert) 5:02
Qns — TD, Andrews 3 run (Wamsley convert) 8:26
Qns — Single, Wamsley misses 42 FG 12:06
Fourth Quarter
Wat — TD, Lewis 8 pass from Chris (Coy convert) 0:06
Qns — Safety, Smith concedes
Wat — TD Doczi 2 run (Coy convert) 10:29
Queen’s 33 21 22 2 — 78
Waterloo 0 7 7 7 — 21
Attendance (Waterloo) — 500.
Statistics
Qns Wat
First downs 37 12
Yards rushing 499 9
Yards passing 302 151
Total offence 801 160
Passes made-tried 17-21 23-36
Interceptions by 1 0
Fumbles-fumbles lost 2-2 2-2
Punts-average yards 2-21 9-38
Penalties-total yards 6-71 4-86
Individual Statistics
Rushing
Queen’s — Andrews 10 carries for 168 yards, 2 TDs; heslop 13-125, 1 TD; Pataki 12-118, Granberg 12-93, 1 TD; Aprile 1-4, Mitchell 1-1, Corby 1-(-5).
Waterloo — Silvestri 7-9, Chris 1-9, Doczi 2-3, 1 TD.
Passing
Queen’s — McPhee completed 12 of 15 for 215 yards, 3 TDs; Mitchell 5-5, 92 yards; Gazendam 0-1.
Waterloo — Chris 23-36, 195 yards, 2 TDs, 1 interception.
Receiving
Queen’s — Corby 4 catches for 104 yards, 2 TDs; Macdonell 3-55, 1 TD; Aprile 2-70, 1 TD; Gazendam 2-21, Carmichael 2-11, Pataki 1-19, Carroll 1-16, Heslop 1-8, Granberg 1-3.
Waterloo — Anapolsky 12-90, Lewis 4-26, 1 TD; Silvestri 2-32, Ganza 2-19, 1 TD; Tapsell2-14, Eaket 1-14.
Punting
Queen’s — Wamsley 1 for 42 yards.
Waterloo — Smith 9 for 345 yards, avg. 38.3, longest 44.
Interceptions
By Queen’s — Chase-Dunawa (2).
By Waterloo — None.
Quarterback Sacks
By Queen’s — Wiggan 4 (5), Plumley (3), Kinkead (1), Leroux (2.5); Dyer (5.5) and Flude (0.5).
By Waterloo — Tolliver (2.5).
Read MoreAll photos are by Jeff Chan. Jeff is past Chairman of the Vanier Cup - Canada's University Football Championship and the Premier University Event in Canada, and was a member of the Canadian College Bowl Board and Vanier Cup Organizing Committee from 1978-2000.
All photos are Copyright (c) Jeff Chan 2000-2013, and may be used for personal non-commercial applications including by Queen's University, the CIS and its member conferences, so long as photo credits are shown or the photos are otherwise attributed to Jeff Chan. All other rights, including for all corporate use, are reserved.
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QUEEN'S 78, WATERLOO 21
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No. 5 GAELS DOWN WARRIORS 78-21 IN WATERLOO
By Shawn MacDonald, Queen's Sports Information
The No. 5 Queen's Gaels beat the Waterloo Warriors 78-21 marking the second most points scored in a single game in Queen's football history.
Dillon Wamsley (London, Ont.) also had a record setting night for the Gaels as his 52-yard field goal tied the Gaels longest field goal record set by Blaine Shore in 1979.
"I really thought there were a lot of good things tonight," said head coach Pat Sheahan after the game. "They were undermanned tonight but there was some great execution. Guys really made some great plays and we had some new faces in there on defence and they played pretty well."
Doug Corby (Burlington, Ont.) finished with three touchdowns, two receiving and one on a return, to lead the Gaels while Jesse Andrews (Arnprior, Ont.), Daniel Heslop (Scarborough, Ont.) and Jonah Pataki (Wallaceburg, Ont.) all ran for over 100 yards each. Billy McPhee (Burlington, Ont.) was 12-15 with 215 yards and three touchdowns all coming in the first half.
Waterloo was led by Brian Chris who threw for 195 yards and two touchdowns. Glorian Ganza and Christian Lewis hauled in both scores from Chris and Alexander Doczi added his own on the ground.
In the first quarter the Gaels scored early and often. Heslop started things off with a 42-yard run for a touchdown and McPhee followed up with a 63-yard connection to Giovanni Aprile (Scarborough, Ont.).
A Corby punt-return 53 yards for a touchdown was followed by Cory Dyer (Gananoque, Ont.) who added a touchdown off a fumble recovery to bring the Gaels lead to 28-0.
After the Warriors conceded a safety Wamsley closed out the first quarter with his record tying 52-yard field goal and the Gaels were out in front 33-0 after one.
Ryan Granberg (Sherwood Park, Alta.) started the second quarter with a five-yard rushing score and the Warriors got their first points on the board right after. Christian Mahler blocked Wamsley's punt attempt and the Warriors recovered. Chris then connected with Ganza for a 10-yard touchdown.
It was all Gaels afterwards with McPhee connecting on passing touchdowns to both Corby and Scott Macdonell (Montreal) to close out the first half up 54-7.
The second half saw Andrews add a pair of rushing scores and Corby nab his third touchdown of the night. Waterloo added two more scores as Chris connected with Lewis and Doczi ran in a two-yard score after the Warriors took a fumble to inside the Gaels 10.
The Gaels finished with a 78-21 final, just two points shy of tying their all-time high for points scored in a game.
Derek Wiggan (Toronto) led the way for the Gaels on defense recording six tackles, four sacks and a forced fumble.
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GAELS THUMP HAPLESS WARRIORS; IMPROVE TO 6-1
By Claude Scilley, SportKingston
It was just the kind of game the Queen’s Golden Gaels needed, not so much to impress anyone but themselves.
On a clear, calm, unseasonably warm night, the Gaels took it to the hapless Waterloo Warriors, beating them 78-21. No adjectives or colourful verbs are necessary for a contest where the score pretty much says all you need to know, but consider a few highlights:
• In improving its record to 6-1, Queen’s led 33-0 before the game was 12 minutes old; the Gaels punted only twice all night.
• Three of the four tailbacks Queen’s employed rushed for better than 100 yards apiece. The exception was starter Ryan Granberg, who had a paltry 93 yards when he came out of the game early in the second quarter.
• The Gaels rushed for 499 yards — 490 more than the Warriors — and had 800 yards of total offence. They sacked beleaguered Waterloo quarterback Brian Chris eight times.
• Dillon Wamsley tied a 34-year-old school record with a 52-yard field goal in the first quarter, matching the previous best, booted by Blaine Shore, in 1979.
The outcome might have been more severe had one of those two punts not been blocked at the Queen’s 10-yard line, and a Queen’s fumble at the Waterloo one-yard line not been returned 92 yards to set up the Warriors’ final touchdown.
Had Wamsley not missed two shorter field-goal attempts after his record-tying boot, and Jonah Pataki not fumbled on the one-yard line on his way into the end zone in the fourth quarter, the Gaels easily would have surpassed the team record for points in a game, 80, set in an 80-0 debacle at York in 2008.
As it was, the Gaels — with freshman Pataki rushing nine straight plays, for 72 yards — got to the Waterloo five-yard line with a little more than a minute to play in the game. Quarterback Ryan Mitchell dutifully took a knee three plays in a row to avoid scoring his team’s 11th touchdown of the game.
It was too little, too late, for some Waterloo fans, who were giving the Queen’s bench the business.
“What do you do?” Gaels coach Pat Sheahan mused. “We threw the ball 19 times and that was it. It was a ridiculous score … but you still have to do something. It’s a difficult spot. I like (Waterloo coach) Joe Paopao. He’s a good guy. You don’t want to be accused of rubbing it in, but you want your kids to play hard so they don’t get hurt. In this game at this level, if you don’t play hard, you’re going to get nicked.
“That’s what our kids did — they came down, they played hard, they took this game seriously, they were excited to play and they did a good job.”
Not to diminish the superb play of Granberg, Daniel Heslop (125 yards), Jesse Andrews (168 yards) and Jonah Pataki (118 yards) — the latter three all personal-best performances — it was a night when the principal’s pet turtle could have averaged seven yards a carry behind an inspired Queen’s offensive line.
On such a night it was suggested to Sheahan that his only failing as a coach was not to have a fifth tailback to put in the game.
Sheahan chuckled and said he resisted the urge to slip Granberg back onto the field long enough to surpass the 100-yard plateau, and make it 4-for-4 for 100-yard running backs, a rare achievement, indeed.
“I talked to him on the sideline and I said, ‘You know what? With my luck and your history, I’m not putting you back in,’” Sheahan said.
Granberg got hurt late in the final regular-season game last year and missed the playoffs.
Many people have been waiting for the Gaels to have their breakout game and there’s no question all facets had splendid displays Friday night. Queen’s first four touchdowns — scored in the first seven minutes of the game — came on a 42-yard run on a fake punt, a 63-yard pass, a 53-yard punt return and a fumble recovery near the Waterloo goal line.
Was this finally the Queen’s team everybody been expecting to see all year?
“We’re getting there,” said Sean Plumley, the only veteran linebacker healthy enough to play Friday night. “There is still some improvement that we can make, but we’re getting there.”
Jesse Andrews, who rushed for a career-best 168 yards on 10 carries in a little more than 10 minutes of the third quarter, agreed.
“It’s our seventh game in but I think this is the one that everyone wanted. It gave us a chance to show what we’re capable of.
“We have the talent. We have a lot of chemistry, too. It was just a matter of time in terms of throwing it all together and coming out as successfully as we did (tonight). It just seemed like every aspect of the game was finally clicking.”
Corby, who had a career-best three-touchdown game, was more to the point.
“This is the Queen’s team everybody’s been waiting to see,” he said. “There were a few mistakes we made here and there but other than that we were just flying. This is the team we’re going to be from here on out.
“With playoffs coming and Guelph next week this was a big game to try and get things going. We’re ready to go now.”
Even against an opponent as clearly over-matched as Waterloo, a 1-6 team floundering so badly Friday wasn’t even the first time this year they’ve allowed 78 points?
“That’s what teams said about Laurier, right?” Corby said, referring to last week’s game when another 1-5 team took the Gaels to overtime before losing. “You’ve got to be aware of every opponent.”
Plumley made note of the fact the Gaels were missing eight players who have started a game on defence this year.
“We were missing a lot of guys but some of the younger guys stepped up and played some good games. We had to get by this week and I think we did a pretty good job, as a team, outplaying our opponent for most of the game.
“We definitely needed it. This season we haven’t been able to bring it all together for one game. I think we can improve on this but it’s good to get everybody playing well. This will help our team gain some confidence.”
Andrews said it was difficult to identify a catalyst for the terrific performance, given that players have been vowing for a month it was time they collectively got their act together.
“The previous six games have been too close for our liking,” he said. “We just came together as a team and said it’s time to step up, it’s time to actually do the work, it’s time to show what we can do.
“It’s now or never. We’re in the playoffs, effectively.”
Indeed, Friday’s results — in addition to the Queen’s victory, Guelph survived an early scare at Carleton, where the Ravens had the Gryphons in a 10-10 tie early in the second quarter before ultimately losing 48-12 — ensure the Gaels’ final game next Saturday against undefeated Guelph will be a showdown for second place, and the prizes that go with it: A first-round playoff bye and a home game in the semifinals.
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GAME STATS
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First Quarter
Qns — TD, Heslop 42 run (Wamsley convert) 2:49
Qns — TD, Aprile 63 pass from McPhee (Wamsley convert) 4:45
Qns — TD, Corby 53 punt return (Wamsley convert) 6:00
Qns — TD, Dyer 5 fumble recovery (Wamsley convert) 6:44
Qns — Safety, Smith concedes 8:04
Qns — FG, Wamsley 52 11:12
Second Quarter
Qns — TD, Granberg 5 run (Wamsley convert) 2:38
Wat — TD, Ganza 10 pass from Chris (Coy convert) 10:56
Qns — TD, Corby 30 pass from McPhee (Wamsley convert) 13:18
Qns — TD, Macdonell 24 pass from McPhee (Wamsley convert) 14:49
Third Quarter
Qns — TD, Andrews 33 run (two-point convert attempt failed) 2:02
Qns — Single, Wamsley 75 kickoff 2:03
Qns — TD, Corby 50 pass from McPhee (Wamsley convert) 5:02
Qns — TD, Andrews 3 run (Wamsley convert) 8:26
Qns — Single, Wamsley misses 42 FG 12:06
Fourth Quarter
Wat — TD, Lewis 8 pass from Chris (Coy convert) 0:06
Qns — Safety, Smith concedes
Wat — TD Doczi 2 run (Coy convert) 10:29
Queen’s 33 21 22 2 — 78
Waterloo 0 7 7 7 — 21
Attendance (Waterloo) — 500.
Statistics
Qns Wat
First downs 37 12
Yards rushing 499 9
Yards passing 302 151
Total offence 801 160
Passes made-tried 17-21 23-36
Interceptions by 1 0
Fumbles-fumbles lost 2-2 2-2
Punts-average yards 2-21 9-38
Penalties-total yards 6-71 4-86
Individual Statistics
Rushing
Queen’s — Andrews 10 carries for 168 yards, 2 TDs; heslop 13-125, 1 TD; Pataki 12-118, Granberg 12-93, 1 TD; Aprile 1-4, Mitchell 1-1, Corby 1-(-5).
Waterloo — Silvestri 7-9, Chris 1-9, Doczi 2-3, 1 TD.
Passing
Queen’s — McPhee completed 12 of 15 for 215 yards, 3 TDs; Mitchell 5-5, 92 yards; Gazendam 0-1.
Waterloo — Chris 23-36, 195 yards, 2 TDs, 1 interception.
Receiving
Queen’s — Corby 4 catches for 104 yards, 2 TDs; Macdonell 3-55, 1 TD; Aprile 2-70, 1 TD; Gazendam 2-21, Carmichael 2-11, Pataki 1-19, Carroll 1-16, Heslop 1-8, Granberg 1-3.
Waterloo — Anapolsky 12-90, Lewis 4-26, 1 TD; Silvestri 2-32, Ganza 2-19, 1 TD; Tapsell2-14, Eaket 1-14.
Punting
Queen’s — Wamsley 1 for 42 yards.
Waterloo — Smith 9 for 345 yards, avg. 38.3, longest 44.
Interceptions
By Queen’s — Chase-Dunawa (2).
By Waterloo — None.
Quarterback Sacks
By Queen’s — Wiggan 4 (5), Plumley (3), Kinkead (1), Leroux (2.5); Dyer (5.5) and Flude (0.5).
By Waterloo — Tolliver (2.5).
