Panel data provided by Madison's Canadian Lumber Reporter.

Heeere's Johnny! Lions 28 Tiger-Cats 22

By 250 News

The Battle of Felix Domesticus 

-by John Goodwin

Two teams going two different directions collided in Hamilton tonight, with the Tiger-cats seeking some respect after an 0 and 3 start and the B C Lions looking to run through them and take their league leading record to 4 and 0.

BC entered the game with 13 sacks, good for a tie for second in the CFL however their offensive line had allowed an alarming 16 sacks on Dave Dickenson. Dickenson had completed an astounding 74% of his passes for 6 TD’s, and one can only imagine
what he would be capable of with an offensive line that could offer some degree of reasonable protection. 

While backup Casey Printers would “kill” for some playing time, fact is he would in all likely-hood not be gazing at a close up and personal view of his center’s backside for awhile yet, to include a whole lot of action tonight if his mentor continued on this torrid pace.
On that note coach Wally Buono pointed out that in his view Dave Dickenson was yet to show the length and breadth of his arsenal. What those performances would look like most of us can only imagine....

One would think the Leos would absolutely dominate in all aspects of this game inasmuch as show-time takes place less than once per week during the season and they had the best part of seven days to prepare. Fact is the game for the most part was a real “nail filer”.

The Lions looked out of sorts during the entire event, forgetting most of the fundamentals and what they remembered they had trouble executing on. The O line would again appear to watch helplessly as their quarterback spent much of the game running for his life as they allowed him to be sacked 4 times. 

But give the Tabbies some well deserved credit ‘cause Danny McManus was on his game with a creative plan and great reads of the Lion’s defensive alignments running up the Ti-cats offense. It looked as though the only deterrents to a runaway game for the hungry tabbies was his receiver’s inability to hang onto the ball, and costly stupid penalties by his supporting cast negating 2 touchdown passes.

Hamilton opened the scoring in the first frame on a Jamie Boreham 46 yd. FG at 7:44. The Lions show some life and look to be on their way with the introduction of Antonio Warren into the offensive scheme, not only keeping the Hamilton’s pass rush honest but thus allowing Dave Dickenson time to get the passing attack on track.

Dickenson was to hit Jason Clairmont with a 20 yd. pass and run beating LB Mat Petz for the major at 10:54 of the first making the score 7-3 in favor of the Lions and more importantly bringing some badly needed spark to the Leo’s offense. Before the night was over Dickenson would hit Paris Jackson in the 3rd quarter for a 12 yd. strike as well running the score to 23-19 Lions at that time.

Kicker Duncan O’Mahony went 4 for 4 with 3's from the 17, 29, 36 and his longest of the season from the 45 yard line. On the other side of the ball Hamilton kicker Jamie Boreham was also perfect for the night scoring from 46, 25, 24, 33 and 18 yards out.

QB Danny McManus would see 2 touchdown passes to D.J. Flick called back when in the first quarter he was flagged for an offside and yet another score in the second quarter was negated for pushing off on Lion’s CB Dante Marsh.

Team discipline was uncharacteristically conspicuous in it’s absence tonight as the Lions ran up a long string of momentum killing penalties. Can’t see this becoming a trademark of this team, at least so long as coach Buono patrols the sidelines.
Previous Story - Next Story



Return to Home