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SASKATCHEWAN HUSKIES FOOTBALL VANIER CUP CHAMPIONS : 1990, ‘96, ‘98 | CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS: 1965, ‘74, ‘89, ‘90, ‘91, ‘94, ‘96, ‘98, ‘99, 2002, ‘04, ‘05, ‘06 90 CIS ALL-CANADIANS | 261 CANADA WEST ALL-STARS | 35 CANADA WEST AWARD WINNERS | 7 U SPORTS AWARD WINNERS 2018 SCHEDULE Game Information Fri 8/31 vs Alberta W 42-0 Date ............................. Saturday, Nov. 10 Fri 9/7 at Manitoba W 48-46 Time ....................................................2 p.m. Fri 9/14 vs Calgary L 37-28 Location .................................Calgary, AB Fri 9/21 vs Regina W 33-20 Venue ..........................McMahon Stadium Sat 9/29 at Calgary L 37-28 Fri 10/12 at UBC L 33-13 Watch ......SaskTel Max/Canadawest.tv Sat 10/20 vs Manitoba W, 27-24 Listen ........................................ CJWW 600 Fri 10/26 at Regina W, 57-3 SASKATCHEWAN Series ......................... CGYleads 54-33-2 CALGARY Sat 11/3 at UBC W, 31-28 HUSKIES Current Streak ...................... CGY - 3 W DINOS Sat 11/10 at Calgary 2:00 PM Last Meeting ................. Sep. 29, 2018 Sat 11/17 OUA TBD 5-3 SSK13 at CGY 33 8-0 Sat 11/24 U SPORTS TBD (1-0) (1-0) CANADA WEST STANDINGS GP Record #5 THINGS 1 The Huskies are back in the Hardy Cup for the first time since 2009 and will Calgary 8 8-0 be looking to claim their first CW Championship since 2006. Bowan Lewis was named the CW Defensive Player of the Week for his 10.5 UBC 8 5-3 2 tackle effort against UBC last week. Saskatchewan 8 5-3 The Huskies and Dinos have combined for 35 Hardy Cups. 18 for Saskatch- 3 Manitoba 8 3-5 ewan and 17 for Calgary. Alberta 8 2-6 Four Huskies were named to the CW All-Star Team. Tyler Chow, Tristian 4 Koronkiewicz, Evan Machibroda and Mattland Riley. Regina 8 1-7 Only three Hardy Cup games have gone to overtime and two of those 5 three involved the Huskies and Dinos. U SPORTS TOP 10 Pts (1st place) Last week 1. Western 232(7) 1 REG SEASON STAT LEADERS #ByTheNumbers 2. Laval 220 (4) 2 2 Saskatchewan Category Calgary Tyler Chow scored as many 3. Calgary 196 (1) 3 rushing touchdowns in the game TYLER CHOW Rushing JESHRUN ANTWI 4. Montreal 168 4 against UBC as he did in the 100 ATT, 640 YDS, 2 TDS 42 ATT, 360 YDS, 3 TDS regular season. 5. Guelph 135 6 KYLE SIEMENS Passing ADAM SINAGRA 29 6. Saskatchewan 111 7 155-249, 2117 YDS, 16 TDS 186-281, 3233 YDS, 23 TDS In the two games the teams 7. StFX 75 - COLTON KLASSEN Receiving HUNTER KARL played this season, the Dinos 8. Ottawa 65 5 38 REC, 676 YDS, 8 TDS 47 REC, 937 YDS, 6 TDS have outscored the Huskies by 29 9. Saint Mary's 50 - BEN WHITING Tackles BOSTON ROWE 9 44 TACKLES 35.5 TACKLES 10. Carleton 39 8 Calgary has hosted the past nine T. KORONKIEWICZ Sacks JOEL VAN PELT Hardy Cup Championship games. SPORTS INFORMATION DIRECTOR: CAMERON DOHERTY 7 SACKS 6 SACKS PHONE: 306-966-1024 • CELL: 250-818-2408 N. LOKOMBO, J. HAGERTY Interceptions S. TAYLOR, D. LEONARD EMAIL: [email protected] 18 WEBSITE: HUSKIES.USASK.CA 3 INTS 2 INTS TWITTER: @HUSKIEATHLETICS SEAN STENGER Field Goals NIKO DIFONTE The Huskies 18 Hardy Cups are the FACEBOOK: HUSKIE ATHLETICS most in conference history. INSTAGRAM: @HUSKIEATHLETICS 14-18 FGs, 29-29 XPs 24-28 FGs, 35-35 XPs Game 10 vs. Calgary Dinos • Huskie Football 2018 Game Notes 2017 Huskie Football Game Notes - 2 UOFS QUICK FACTS: SCOUTING THE DINOS Location: Saskatoon, SK Enrollment: 19,700 • Calgary dominated the 2018 regular season in Canada West football, finishing either Founded: 1907 first or second in 13 major statistical team categories. Nickname: Huskies • The Dinos were rewarded for their 8-0 regular season record with a conference-high Huskie Colours: Green, White 11 All-Stars. Conference: Canada West • Adam Sinagra’s 3,233 passing yards this season set a new Canada West and U SPORTS President: Peter Stoicheff single-season record. Chief Athletics Officer: Shawn Burt • Catching those passes from Sinagra were a number of Dinos with six receivers top- Stadium: Griffiths Stadium ping 300 yards on the season. Surface: Field Turf • The Dinos can also hurt you with their defence, they led the league with 17 sacks and Capacity: 5,743 4 defensive TD’s. HUSKIE HISTORY: SERIES HISTORY All-Time Conference Record: 213-159 (since 1972) All-Time Playoff Record: 30-21 VS CALGARY DINOS: All-Time: 33-54-2 Conference: 31-49-2 Playoffs: 1-5 Away: 15-27-1 TEAM STATS 32.3 (2nd) Points per game 44.0 (1st) 3905 (2nd) Total offense 4491 (1st) 492.9 (2nd) Yards per game 570.9 (1st) 320.8 (3rd) Passing yards per game 433.1 (1st) 19 (2nd) Passing touchdowns 26 (1st) 172.1(1st) Rushing yards per game 137.8 (4th) 6.3 (2nd) Yards per rush 6.3 (3rd) 7 (2nd) Rushing touchdowns 7 (2nd) 26.6 (1st) 1st downs per game 26.4 (2nd) 57 (1st) 3rd down % 47 (2nd) 20.3 (1st) Kick return average 17.4 (5th) 7.7 (5th) Punt return average 7.2 (6th) 77.8 (3rd) Field goal % 85.7 (1st) 41.6 (2nd) Average per punt 40.5 (3rd) 85 (3rd) Red zone % 90 (1st) 19-33 (1st) Red zone touchdowns 16-31 (2nd) 5 (4th) Fumbles recovered 6 (3rd) 10 (1st) INT’s 8 (3rd) 3 (2nd) Defensive TD’s 4 (1st) 395 (5th) Tackles 389 (6th) 17 (1st) Sacks 17 (1st) 70 (1st) Penalties 85 (4th) 588(1st) Penalty Yards 731(4th) Facebook “f” Logo CMYK / .eps Facebook “f” Logo CMYK / .eps Huskie Athletics huskies.usask.ca @huskieathletics 2017 Huskie Football Game Notes - 3 LAST WEEK... LAST MEETING... NOVEMBER 3, 2018 SEPTEMBER 7, 2018 1 2 3 4 OT F 1 2 3 4 T SASKATCHEWAN (6-3) 0 17 3 8 3 31 SASKATCHEWAN (3-2) 0 3 10 0 13 UBC (5-4) 7 3 7 11 0 28 CALGARY (5-0) 6 17 0 10 33 Sean Stenger knocked through the game-winning field goal in overtime The sixth-ranked University of Saskatchewan Huskies could not find a to send the University of Saskatchewan Huskies football team past the way past the undefeated No. 3 Calgary Dinos in a 33-13 loss Saturday UBC Thunderbirds, 31-28, and on to the Hardy Cup Championship game afternoon at McMahon Stadium. for the first time in nine years. With the win the Dinos improve to 5-0 on the season heading into the In what was a wild affair played at Thunderbird Stadium in Vancouver, bye week, while Saskatchewan falls to 3-2 – with both of those losses B.C. the Huskies were able to ride out huge swings in momentum to coming at the hands of Calgary. book their ticket to Calgary to play against the Dinos for the 82nd Hardy Cup, this coming Saturday, Nov. 10. Kyle Siemens went to the air often, completing 21 of 40 passes for 297 yards and one interception. Jesse Kuntz was his top target with six "UBC is such a talented football team, our guys just played so well as a catches for 87 yards, while Carter Dahl had 93 receiving yards on just team," said Saskatchewan head coach Scott Flory after his first playoff three receptions. win with the Huskies. "We were connected top to bottom, from special teams to offence to defence. As it turns out we just made one more play Those 297 yards were more than enough to continue moving Siemens in the end. I'm just so proud of our guys." further up the Huskie record books. The native of Saskatoon is now fourth in all-time career passing yards with 7,233 moving past his The game was sent into overtime in the most dramatic way possible. father Doug with his efforts in Calgary. With UBC holding a seven-point lead and just 51 seconds left to play, Two promising Saskatchewan drives were snuffed out in the first fifth-year quarterback Kyle Siemens orchestrated a four-play drive that quarter by turnovers. ended with a 14-yard touchdown pass to Jesse Kuntz to tie the game and send it into overtime. Calgary's Deane Leonard intercepting Siemens inside the 10-yard line on the Huskies' first drive; then, after a missed 43-yard field goal try UBC took possession of the ball first in overtime but the Huskies defence by Sean Stenger, Grant McDonald popped the ball out of Tyler Chow's stood strong. grasp and Blake Gau jumped on it to give the Dinos great field posi- tion. One play later, Sinagra found Jalen Philpot for a 40-yard touch- After a nine-yard completion to start the proceedings, the Thunderbirds down to give the Dinos a 6-0 lead after a bad snap on the convert. needed just one more yard to extend their drive. Evan Machibroda and the Huskies defensive line stepped up and combined for the huge stop Saskatchewan got on the board early in the second with a 17-yard however, forcing kicker Greg Hutchins to come out on the field and field goal, and the Dinos offence went to work from there. Calgary attempt a field goal. scored on three of its next four drives – a 35-yard touchdown to Justin Julien, a 13-yard Niko DiFonte field goal, and a 26-yard Hunter Karl TD Hutchins sent his attempt wide-right, setting the stage for Saskatche- grab – to take a 23-3 lead into the break.