TaitBROct11

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This article was published 12/10/2008 (6561 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

CALLING ALL STATS GEEKS: The question: When was the last time the Bombers had two 100-yard rushers in one game, as they did Friday against the Argos? We’ve gone back 20 some years and haven’t found anything. We can tell you the club record for rushing yardage in a single game is 349, set in a game against Hamilton on Sept. 24, 1975 but the details from that game are lacking.

OUCH REPORT: DL Jon Oosterhuis is lost for the season with a torn bicep and the Bombers are thin along the D-line after releasing Willie Evans and Dorian Smith from their taxi squad last week. “We gotta talk about what we’re going to do there,” said Berry. “We’ve been through that before where we’ve only played with five D-linemen, but I’m not really comfortable with that. So, some issues may come up here.”

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SERNA THE STREAK: Bomber kicker Alexis Serna was 1-for-2 in his field-goal attempts Friday, dropping his percentage to an even 60.0. He missed from 36 on the last play of the first half, but did connect from 34 in the fourth quarter to put the Bombers ahead for good at 17-16.

“I’m concerned about the miss,” said Berry. “I looked at it on film a number of times and he has nobody to blame, really, but himself. It’s in the mechanics — I can see that he’s not the same in his whole approach and follow-through that he was on the second field goal or any of the extra points. He just looks so smooth on all the other opportunities but on that particular one he looks like he’s off balance and consequently wide right.

“He continues to sometimes mystify.”

And yet, the club will continue to hang with Serna and hope he gets on a hot streak when it matters most — November.

“That’s what we’ve been doing,” Berry said. “For anybody’s that been here at practice, I mean, I hope they understand what the decision-making is. We go on what we see in practice and he’s just been outstanding in practice.”

NO. 5 SO-SO: Here’s Berry on the work of Kevin Glenn, who finished 14-of-31 for 153 yards with two TDs and two interceptions: “It’s like I told him after the game, ‘This wasn’t your sharpest game ever. You know it and I know it. But what’s really good about your performance tonight is you were able to identify what we were doing well and use it to our advantage in the way we move the ball and the play calling.’ Certainly he was off a little bit. I know that every player has a bad day, whether you’re talking about a golfer to a baseball pitcher… you name the sport, you name the player, they’ve all had bad days. This was one of those nights where Kevin was not at the top of his game but he did a really good job in keeping the integrity of the offence and what we wanted to do in the game plan and being able to execute.”