McGILL B 0 vs OTTAWA 15
The McGill club team fell to an rogueish but impressive side from the University of Ottawa this past Sunday, Oct 4th.
Where the McGill side made a big 1st half impression was goal line offense. In the first half, Ottawa pushed over the goal line three times but only amounted 5 points for their efforts. One would-be try was held up by a flocculating mass of Red defenders. Big hits from forwards Devon “Red 2.0” Howard and Mike Meehan kept McGill in the game. Later on, a rotund Ottawa winger with surprisingly good speed and surprisingly abysmal hands was forced to knock it on just moments scoring.
Eventually Roy Voigt was forced to kill a ball close to his own goal line to halt a breakaway series of Ottawa grubbers. Chris Pam, pedant referee extraordinaire, decide to call it a penalty try. A conversion and a penalty kick before half put Ottawa up 10-0.
A few snapshots of the sidelines: Varsity players loiter on the sidelines and prepare for their match against Concordia. Rookie center Mike Maloon ruminates [fig/lit] over a Nutrigrain pastry bar. Alastair Crow gets tantric with his Styrofoam stretch noodle. Mike Davis starts the electricity flowing amongst his teammates with his homoerotic hellos. Anton Nestle looks out on the field with iPod earpods dangling messily around his ears, a blank stare that many a college floozy has mistaken for emotional and intellectual depth…
The second half showed a bit more McGill vivacity. Second half sub, Ed “L.B.” Cottingham aka Leg-Breaker aka The Real Slim Shady, added his gangster panache in the centers. Fullback Roy Voigt (infamous for his habit of interrupting practice to kick drop goals from impossible angles, bowing to marginally impressed club players, and declaring “that gentlemen, is why I play rugby.”) blotted out the sun with an impressive series of up-and-unders. Hassan Akbar attacked the line with the screeching bloodlust of a Persian spider monkey. Added to his efforts were good penetrations by Tim Ruban and leggy wing JM Lacourciere.
McGill conceded a late try to lose 15-0. Expect a better show from a disappointed but determined club side gets their rematch October 18th.
write up by Adrian Thorogood.
