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Western 27 Queen's 19
Oct. 29, 2007
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The Queen's Golden Gaels football season came to an abrupt end on Saturday as they lost 27-19 to the Western Mustangs during the opening round of the OUA Playoffs.

"They were the better team today. No excuses, the beat us," said Gaels Head Coach Pat Sheahan. "I think we were two evenly matched teams, but today we couldn't make the best of our opportunities.

"I know the guys are disappointed right now and it's a disappointing end; it's tough to swallow," said Sheahan. "However, tomorrow I think they will wake up and realize they had a good season and lots to be proud of. This is a fine bunch of individuals who represented Queen's well."

Sheahan also added, "It's going to be hard to see a lot of good athletes move on and that's an unsettling thing about College sports. You have an intense relationship with so many good athletes and then they move on in a short period of time."

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By Brock Harrison

There was a moment in the Queen's Golden Gaels' 27-19 playoff loss to the Western Mustangs on Saturday where it looked as though the Gaels would stage another spectacular comeback against their rivals from London.

With visions, no doubt, of repeating their dramatic come-from-behind win over the Mustangs on the opening week of the Ontario University Athletics football season, the Gaels marched down the ravaged turf of Richardson Stadium. Down 27-16 with six minutes left the fourth quarter, they cleared the way for quarterback Danny Brannagan to find his favourite target in the end zone.
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The sting is in knowing the Queen's Golden Gaels were supposed to win Saturday, while the overhyped Western Mustangs actually pulled it off with a win in the OUA quarter- final.

Western, who sent the Gaels' season up in smoke with a 27-19 win, was the best of the three teams on the field. It was too much for Queen's to beat a good team when it wasn't firing on all cylinders and dealing with referees whose work was kind of questionable. It is stomach liner-shredding to imagine how it felt for graduating Gaels such as Rob Bagg, Matt Vickers and D.J. Mulholland to have their time in Tricolour end this way. Closure for them, and for this overzealous alum, might have come a lot easier with a 45-7 stomping. It removes all the coulda-woulda- shoulda.

Let's be clear: Western coach Greg Marshall and his players were full value for playing a superb road game. They ground down the Gaels, taking the crowd out of it with a clock- controlling, one-turnover offensive showing led by an efficient Mike Faulds (24 passes for 253 yards) and gritty Randy McAuley (38 carries, 161 yards).

The players can get over it, but here there is no getting past the work of a crew which had three blown calls that amounted to a 13-point swing for Western. It's part of the game, of course.
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A fifth straight win after starting the season 0-4 sends Western to the OUA semifinals.

By RYAN PYETTE, FREE PRESS SPORTS REPORTER

KINGSTON -- After an 0-4 start, the Western Mustangs have basically been playing playoff football for the last five weeks.

They're about to make it six.

Feeding off momentum from four straight desperation wins to grab the last Ontario university postseason berth, Western lived up to its claim to be a dangerous playoff team by stunning the third-place Queen's Golden Gaels 27-19 yesterday.

The win sets up a semifinal with the undefeated defending Yates Cup champion Ottawa Gee-Gees on their turf Saturday.
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By RYAN PYETTE, SUN MEDIA; FREE PRESS SPORTS REPORTER

It wasn't as dramatic as the sloppy playoff win at Windsor last year, but the Western players with the biggest smiles on their faces in Kingston on Saturday were the guys with the most mud on their jerseys.

That was the entire Mustangs offensive line, running back Randy McAuley and quarterback Mike Faulds, all instrumental pieces in their team's 27-19 upset win over the Queen's Golden Gaels in Saturday's Ontario university football quarter-final.
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JAMES MIRTLE, from Monday's Globe and Mail

Ottawa Gee-Gees head coach Denis Piché calls them "an anomaly." The Regina Rams' Frank McCrystal says they're "peculiar and unique to themselves."

And, across the country, everyone agrees the Laval Rouge et Or are the favourites.

The top-ranked team in the country all season, Laval has won the Vanier Cup as Canadian Interuniversity Sport football champions three of the past four years, and with three weeks to go until the big game returns to Toronto, the fact the Rouge et Or have a 51-4 record in the past five years is in the back of more than a few coaches' minds.

The CIS football playoffs will begin on Saturday with seven conference semi-final games across the country, with the Montreal Carabins designated as the unlucky team set to first visit Laval's PEPS Stadium in Quebec. The Rouge et Or are the overwhelming favourites to come out of the conference, at which point it would take only a win over the Atlantic champion to earn a trip to the Vanier once more.
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Read the about the favourites entering the CIS playoffs, the weekly CIS football wrap up, a potential Top 10, playoff matchups and many articles from around the CIS.

This blog is put together by James Mirtle of the Globe and Mail and Neate Sager from Out of Left Field.
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See the Guelph/McMaster and Laval/Concordia video highlights from this past weekend from theScore.com.

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