Saints three-peat and will face Okanagan for CJFL title
- Bob Bellacicco
- Oct 27, 2024
- 2 min read
Updated: Oct 28, 2024
Quarterback Matthew Guenette threw seven touchdown passes as St. Clair College beat the London Beefeaters Saturday night at Acumen Stadium to three-peat as OFC champions.
"This one feels absolutely unbelievable," Guenette told Powerplay Sports. "When Sodja was down we've been planning all week to torch them on offence for over a hundred, three hundred, four hundred yards, whatever we gotta do. It feels unbelievable."
"He's a beauty," Head coach Mike Lachance said of Guenette. "It's an embarrassment of riches really at quarterback because we've got the offensive player of the year in our conference who's fantastic a generational athlete (Sodja) and then backing him up, in my opinion, is the second best quarterback and it's not a it's not a huge chasm between the two of them."
After shutting out the Beefeaters at Acumen Stadium on September 21st the Saints gave up 39 points, one shy of their overall total of points allowed heading into the final. "Our defense has been awesome all year and they had some struggles today," Lachance remarked. "But the offense picked them up. Really proud of that group today. The defense has really carried us through tough games against Ottawa and it was time to pay them back and the offense did a great job with that."
St. Clair will now get set to host the CJFL national championship game November 9th. The last time the program won the national title was 1999 as the AKO Fratmen.
"I was part of that '99 staff and I keep preaching to these guys how special it is to be part of something like that," Lachance said. "It's within their reach. We're athletic enough, we're big enough, we're strong enough. We coach these guys up. They've got every advantage in the world. It's just time to do it."
Okanagan beat Regina Sunday afternoon and will be coming to Windsor for a second time in three years. "No matter what team won it was going to be a challenge. They have the best running back in the country and will be a good challenge." Lachance said.
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