Michael Harrington caught seven passes for 154 yards and a touchdown to lead the Concordia Stingers to a 39-16 victory over the McGill Redmen in the 25th annual Shrine Bowl at Concordia Stadium in Montreal on Saturday afternoon.
The second-year slotback from LaSalle, Que. enjoyed a career day with his best performance in two seasons with Concordia. He was awarded the John Gilday Memorial Trophy by the Shriners as the outstanding offensive player on the Stingers.
In addition to Harrington, Concordia had touchdowns from receiver Kris Bastien on a 25-yard pass from Reid Quest, returner Kris Robertson who took a punt back 69 yards and linebacker Max Caron who ran an interception back 56 yards in the dying seconds of the first half. The Caron major gave the Stingers a 19-11 halftime lead.
Kicker Keegan Treloar rounded out the Concordia scoring with three field goals (14, 34 and 39 yards) and four converts
Offensively, the Stingers rolled up 20 first downs and 326 yards of offence. While the Redmen were equal to the task with 19 first downs and 326 yards offence.
Concordia quarterbacks split time with Quest completing 13 of 21 passes for 193 yards and two touchdowns. Terrance Morsink connected on seven of 10 passes for 114 yards. Neither pivot turned over the ball.
McGill’s quarterbacks also shared duties. Ryne Bondy completed 17 of 33 passes for 262 yards, one TD and two interceptions. Dallon Kuprowski was good on four of 11 passes for 36 yards.
Their favorite target was Tristan Baldini who caught three passes for 151 yards. He was the McGill recipient of the Gilday award. Receiver Gabriel Aubrey scored the lone McGill TD on a four-yard pass from Bondy.
The Grant H. Peterson trophies for the outstanding defensive players went to Caron for the Stingers. He had 10 tackles, including a sack, and the interception. He led all tacklers in the game. McGill’s Ryan Trudeau with 7.5 tackles was also a Peterson recipient.
The Montreal Alouettes Alumni Association honors the outstanding defensive linemen at every Shrine Bowl game. A presentation is made in honor of Ted Elsby, a perennial all-star for 13 seasons with the Alouettes and a dedicated Shriner. This year, the awards went to Concordia tackle Quinn Smith and McGill tackle Ben Thompson.
The Stingers up their win-loss record to 3-3, while McGill falls to 0-6.
Concordia travels to Sherbrooke to play the Vert & Or next Saturday at 7 p.m. The teams met on Sept. 23 with Sherbrooke eking out a last minute 33-26 victory.
