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Bisons give it away in final 20 seconds

By: Ashley Prest

Posted: 09/29/2012 12:06 AM | Comments: 0

Bisons quarterback Cam Clark didn't have the best night. He was intercepted four times. (RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS ARCHIVES) Photo Store

With 20 seconds left in the game, the University of Manitoba Bisons football team saw victory snatched away from them by the Regina Rams. The Rams scored the game-winning touchdown on their last drive of the game for a 30-27 win at Mosaic Stadium at Taylor Field in Regina.

It was like snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Manitoba had a four-point lead with two minutes left in the game when Rams quarterback Mark Mueller marched the Rams on a nine-play, 95-yard drive that was capped with a 23-yard touchdown pass to Connor Haas. The Rams' drive took just one minute and 38 seconds to execute.

The No. 7-ranked Rams improved to 4-1 while the No. 8-ranked Bisons slipped to 3-2.

Mueller, the grandson of CFL Hall of Fame quarterback Ron Lancaster, completed 35 of 55 passes for 397 yards and two touchdowns while slotback Jared Janotta had 12 catches for 107 yards including a key grab on third-and-long to set up the game-winning major.

"They've got a fifth-year quarterback (Mueller) who marched them down the field on that last drive. Our defence did some good things, we had them on a couple of third-and-10s and sacked Mueller once but they just made some big plays," said Bisons offensive coordinator Vaughan Mitchell.

The Bisons were behind 23-13 with about six minutes left in the game and scored two touchdowns in just under two minutes by Anthony Coombs (18-yard catch) and Brendon Bowman (55-yard catch) to take a 27-23 lead with 2:03 left in the game.

"Offensively, we've been struggling quite a bit but we got some momentum in the fourth quarter when Brendon Bowman caught a touchdown pass (from Bisons quarterback Cam Clark) to put us up by four points. In a perfect world we would have just milked the clock right down," Mitchell said.

"We're still a young team trying to learn to deal with success, adversity, when we're up. We haven't really put together a solid 60 minutes as a team yet this season, we're working to figure out who we are."

Clark completed nine of 28 passes for 236 yards and two touchdowns for Manitoba but was intercepted four times.

ashley.prest@freepress.mb.ca

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