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Buck confident he'll be ready for Alouettes
Blue Bombers' quarterback Buck Pierce was scrambling for his life until he got hurt Friday night. (CP)
INJURED Winnipeg Blue Bombers quarterback Buck Pierce says he is "confident" he will be healthy enough to play Friday when the Bombers travel to Montreal to face the Alouettes.
Pierce was asked Saturday afternoon if he felt he would be ready to go in time for the Als game after injuring his right knee in the first half of a 33-16 Bombers loss to the B.C. Lions in Vancouver Friday night. Pierce answered immediately.
"We'll have to go through the evaluation process still. But myself, I'm confident," Pierce said after the Bomber's plane touched down at James A. Richardson International Airport.
"I'm pretty sore right now. We'll evaluate it a little more (Saturday) afternoon and go from there."
Pierce was using a cane and walking very slowly Saturday morning as he made his way to the departure gate at Vancouver International Airport, but the cane was gone a couple of hours later when Pierce emerged at the Winnipeg airport to face the media. There was no getting rid of a nasty limp, however.
Pierce said he wasn't sure on which of the four sacks he suffered Friday that he was injured, but it appeared the injury occurred on the third sack in the second quarter by Lions lineman Eric Taylor. Pierce came up limping and returned for the next series, before being sacked a fourth time by lineman Keron Williams. Pierce stayed in the game for just one more play after that.
-- Wiecek
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition July 2, 2012 C3
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