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Knights Close Off Exhibition
Season with Split Against Wolverines
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The Kanata Knights Football Club concluded its exhibition
season with two wins and two loses against the West
Carleton Wolverines on Sunday, August 20 on a
wet, soggy Kanata Recreation Centre Field.
Tyke
The Kanata Knights Tykes served notice that their home
field is their House as they charged over the West Carleton
Tykes 39 - 6 despite suffering numerous injuries.
Even the relentless rain could not deter the Knights
from their quest for victory as Logan (the Lion Heart)
McKenna, who played on both offence and defense, lead
the team with 2 touch downs, 2 fumble recoveries, 2
QB sacks, 30 yards in kick-offs, 55 rushing yards and
10 tackles. Rookie Mahlon Head decided the end zone
was his house as he scored an amazing 3 touch downs
behind the strong blocking of the O-Line lead by centre
Jake Hamm. Sam Kronick and Levi Neeson also had good
games picking up impressive yardage along the ground.
On defense, Robbie Clement put in a spectacular performance
delivering 4 tackles, 1 fumble recovery and a touch
down. The defensive line put on a fumble recovery clinic
as Scott Taylor, in his 1st game, led the tutelage with
4 fumble recoveries and 3 tackles and Carter Poulin
delivered 5 punishing tackles and had 2 fumble recoveries.
Other strong showings were recorded by Dylan Lachance
and Connor Smallwood who had 3 tackles each while Jordan
Olleik, Tyler Moffat, Brendan Singleton and Grant
Moser combined for 7 hits.
Mosquito
The Kanata Mosquito's put in a determined effort but
in the end lost by a score of 24 – 0 to a much
improved West Carleton Mosquito team. The offense took
advantage of the exhibition series to continue to work
on their game and prepare for the regular season. The
coaches were pleased with the effort of all players
and look to working on timing and play execution this
coming week in preparation for the league opener.
The defense, after an uneven 1st quarter, settled down
and executed their game plan to perfection, putting
pressure on the Wolverines backfield. Mitch Graham and
Harrison de Costa lead the way with 9 tackles each while
Graham also added 3 sacks and 2 fumble recoveries. Zach
Palmer, Mike Zadra, Bret Champagne and Evan Swire followed
with 7 tackles apiece and Devin McIntyre, Jordon Gorgichuk,
Vince Galea, and Zack Andruchow contributed 3 tackles
each. Swire added one fumble recovery.
PeeWee
The PeeWee squad continues to improve but dropped a
close 15 – 6 decision to the Wolverine Pee Wees. The
two teams were evenly matched throughout the game and
the final tally wasn’t certain until the final moments
of the game. Dallon Kuprowski led the way for the Knights
with close to 100 yards rushing and scored the lone
touchdown.
Bantam
The Bantam Knights recorded their second win in the
exhibition season with a 26 – 0 victory over the Bantam
Wolverines. The offense was slow in starting but turned
it on in the second half in producing an overall balanced
attack of 177 yards along the ground and 143 yards through
the air. The offensive line “Hoggies” opened big holes
all afternoon for running backs Godwin Addai, Eric Champagne
and Ryan Graham. Receivers Jordan Singbeil, Shane Hills
and Kyle Lafond were favorite targets of QB Ryan Ireland
who scored one of the Knights TDs. Graham scored the
other Knights offensive TD while Addai had one field
goal and two point after converts.
The defense was again unbeatable in recording the shutout.
Shane Sabourin led the charge with 11 tackles and a
sack followed closely by Brad Gorgichuk with 7 tackles
and 2 sacks. Joey Timpson was tough to beat in the middle
recording 6 hard hitting tackles and a sack. Kyle Watson
added to score board with a 40 punt return for TD.
All Knights teams begin the regular football season
on August 26 and 27 with games against the Bel Air Lions
and Norseman.
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