MONTREAL – Martin Laval of Biarritz, Que., scored 15 factors and sparked McGill to a powerful 30-10 victory over Concordia within the males’s rugby common season opener earlier than a spirited, rain-soaked crowd of 1,127 at Percival Molson Stadium, Saturday, to seize the fifth Dave Hardy Cup rivalry recreation.
It was a second straight conquest over Concordia for the Redbirds, who had dropped the earlier 9 conferences with their cross-town rivals. Each of the McGill wins had been in Hardy Cup play after dropping the primary three Cup confrontations to Concordia. The occasion is called after Dave Hardy, who coached at each establishments. He served as bench boss at McGill from 1982 to 1989 and later served as an assistant coach at Concordia.
Laval, a 24-year-old grasp’s pupil in administration retailing, was a one-man wrecking crew for the Redbirds. The senior 5-foot-11, 182-pound fullback was good on all three of his penalty kick makes an attempt and transformed all three tries made by McGill.
The house facet jumped into an early 7-0 lead and took a lopsided 20-3 benefit into halftime, then gained the second half by a 10-5 margin.
The primary McGill strive was tallied by Anderson Recker (28′) – a first-year MBA pupil from Halifax who graduated final spring from Acadia College. The opposite strive was scored by veteran Neos Dionisopoulos (38′) ) a local of Westmount, Que., who graduated in 2023 and returned to check dentistry.
Teammate Will Simpson, a historical past junior from the U.Ok., who closed out the McGill scoring within the 74th minute with a strive that put the Redbirds forward 30-3.
Concordia’s Nicholas Gagnon narrowed the early deficit to 6-3 with a penalty kick within the ninth minute of play. The Stingers had been then stored off the scoresheet till the ultimate second of the sport when Cameron Harte tallied a strive, transformed by Philip Hacala.
McGill (1-0) will now put together to make a brief jaunt round Mt. Royal to tackle the Montreal Carabins (9-0) on Friday the thirteenth with an 8:30 p.m. kickoff at UdeM’s Terrain Vincent d’Indy.
Concordia (0-1) will host Ottawa (1-0) on Sept. 15 at 3 p.m. The Gee-Gees are the defending RSEQ convention champions after posting a 4-2 second-place report final season and upsetting undefeated ETS 18-17 within the league championship recreation.
SCORING SUMMARY
McGill 30, Concordia 10
(fifth Dave Hardy Cup Recreation; at Percival Molson Stadium, Sept. 7/24)
First Half:
- McG: Martin Laval: (PENALTY KICK), 1′ (McGill leads 3-0)
- McG: Martin Laval: (PENALTY KICK), 7′ (McGill leads 6-0)
- CON: Nicholas Gagnon: (PENALTY KICK), 9′ (McGill leads 6-3)
- McG: Anderson Recker: (TRY, transformed by Martin Laval), 28′ (McGill leads 13-3)
- McG: Neos Dionisopoulos: (TRY, transformed by Martin Laval), 38′ (McGill leads 20-3)
Second Half
- McG: Martin Laval: (PENALTY KICK), 58′ (McGill leads 23-3)
- McG: William Simpson: (TRY, transformed by Martin Laval), 74′ (McGill leads 30-3)
- Con: Cameron Harte: (TRY, transformed by Philip Hacala), 80′ (McGill leads 30-10)
RSEQ STATS & STANDINGS
SOURCE:
Earl Zukerman
Sports activities Data Officer
Athletics & Recreation
McGill College
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