August 22, 2008

Bishop's Gaiters 2008 Football Prospectus (pdf)

LENNOXVILLE: The Bishop’s Gaiters will travel to Ottawa this Sunday, August 24, to take on the Ottawa Gee-Gees in an exhibition football matchup. Kickoff at Ottawa’s Frank Clair Stadium is at 1 p.m.

The game will cap the first week of the Gaiters’ 2008 training camp. Over 100 student-athletes have descended on the Lennoxville campus this week for the Gaiters’ annual camp, including 50 returning players from last year’s squad, which posted a 5-3 record, the Gaiters’ first winning season in over a decade.

Ottawa, led by former Champlain College quarterback Josh Sacobie, went 8-0 last season, before losing to the University of Western Ontario in last season’s Ontario University Athletics (OUA) semifinals.

Sunday’s game will be the first preseason tilt played by Bishop’s since 1994, when the Gaiters downed McMaster 10-2 in Hamilton. It will also mark the first meeting in eight years with the Gee-Gees, who were formerly members of the Ontario-Quebec Interuniversity Football Conference (OQIFC) with the Gaiters. In 21 seasons in the OQIFC, Bishop’s held a 14-13 lead in head-to-head matchups.