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The long, lost, lonely highway It rained, it poured and the Gaiters offense snored for most of the afternoon Saturday as the Acadia Axemen took what Bishop’s gave them, six turnover’s in total, en route to a 31-3 loss in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
A cold, rainy Raymond
field was the sight of arguably the Gaiters worst loss of the season, as
the team squandered numerous redzone opportunities, and allowed Acadia
to continually put up points by giving the Axemen tremendous field
possession. Five times the team had the ball within the twenty yard line
and all the Gaiters could walk away with was one Alex Dyer field goal. “It’s really disappointing to drive here for 15 hours and leave with nothing,” said cornerback Dave Parent after the game. “But we have to throw this one away, because next weekend is so important, it’s a playoff game.” The Gaiters had the chance to take an early lead, but an Alex Dyer field goal attempt was blocked by Cam Clements. Acadia then only had to look to running back Mike Black to lead the way, as Black opened the scoring with a 95 yard run in the dying minutes of the first quarter. Black would later score another touchdown on Acadia’s next possession, after the Gaiters took a roughing the kicker penalty to give Acadia prime field position. From there things only got worse, as the Axemen put the Gaiters away, despite Acadia quarterback Kristin Pipe throwing four interceptions and the team fumbling the ball twice. The loss combined with the McGill Redmen losing to the Concordia Stingers Saturday creates a playoff like showdown this weekend as the 2-5 Redmen travel to Lennoxville to face the Gaiters in the final game of the regular season. “We need to bounce back from this because our season is on the line next weekend,” said halfback Kevin Mailloux. Mailloux indecently broke his thumb minutes into the first quarter, but still stayed in the lineup, finishing the game. “These are the types of games you always want to play, when everything is on the line, and you hold nothing back.” Game time is 1:00 p.m. Saturday, October 25.
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