Bishop's beaten by Bjella as lacrosse Redmen win streak now at 35

McGill's Anders Bjella (#19)

LENNOXVILLE, Que. -- Anders Bjella, a senior from Milwaukee, Wisc., scored twice, including the game-winner as visiting McGill rallied to edge Bishop's 7-6 in a key men's lacrosse confrontation between two undefeated teams at Coulter Field, Thursday.

The Redmen, who took sole possession of first place atop the CUFLA East standings at 9-0, improved their win streak to 35 consecutive games in regular-season play. It put a damper on Homecoming Week for the Gaiters, who dropped to 8-1 in the standings and have now lost six straight meetings to McGill since an 11-10 Bishop's victory on Sept. 27, 2012.

McGill, which had an 18-17 edge in shots, led 1-0 after the opening quarter, 3-2 at halftime and 6-4 after three. The Gaiters came out quickly after the intermission and scored a pair of goals to take a short-lived 4-3 lead before McGill stormed back with four consecutive markers, capped by Bjella's second of the soiree, with less than nine minutes remaining on the clock.

Goaltender William Waesche, a 5-foot-11, 190-pound economics junior from Greenwich, Conn., turned aside 11 of 17 shots for the victory and improved to 8-0 on the season.

"He made a number of circus-act like stops. especially from in close against some of the top shooters in the league," said Tim Murdoch, who has served as volunteer head coach at McGill since 2003 and is now in his 13th season. "It was an amazing performance, perhaps the best I've ever seen by a McGill goalie.

"Our defence played incredibly well on a day where our offence never really got on track."

Seniors Connor Goodwin of New Westminster, B.C., and Rhys Burnell of Abbotsford, B.C., each added a pair of goals for the Redmen while Spencer Bromley, a junior from Surrey, B.C., tallied the other.

McGill, which is the only remaining undefeated school in the 15-team CUFLA conference, will put their lengthy win streak back on the line when they host Ottawa (2-5) in the team's annual Homecoming weekend at Percival Molson Stadium, Saturday, Oct. 3 at 6 p.m. That event will be preceded by an alumni game at 2:30 p.m. on Forbes Field, located beside the student residences.

Bishop's (8-1) will get another crack at McGill, when the two teams tango in Montreal on Oct. 8 at 8:30 pm.

2015 CUFLA Regular Season Standings
(updated after Thursday's game)

West Div.	GP	W	L	PTS ?	GF	GA
Western	5	4	1	8	72	45
Brock	6	4	2	8	95	66
Nipissing	4	3	1	6	35	48
Guelph	4	3	1	6	41	22
Laurier	6	3	3	6	42	58
Laurentian	5	3	2	6	47	38
McMaster	6	1	5	2	49	67
Toronto	6	0	6	0	41	78

East Div.	GP	W	L	PTS	GF	GA
McGill	9	9	0	18	98	49
Bishop's	9	8	1	16	87	51
Queen's	8	4	4	8	60	76
Trent	8	4	4	8	64	71
Carleton	6	2	4	4	40	64
Ottawa	7	2	5	4	29	64
Concordia	11	0	11	0	0	3

SCORING SUMMARY
McGill 7 @ Bishop's 6
Date: Thursday October 01, 2015 @ 8:30 pm - 10:30 pm
Location: Bishop's University - Coulter Field

Goals by Quarter
TEAM	1	2	3	4	F
McGill	1	2	3	1	7
Bishop's	0	2	2	2	6

1st Quarter Scoring
TIME	TEAM	SCORING DETAIL
2:22	McGill	14 Connor Goodwin (C) Unassisted

2nd Quarter Scoring
TIME	TEAM	SCORING DETAIL
15:18	Bishop's	27 Robert Hall Unassisted
10:15	McGill	19 Anders Bjella (C) Unassisted
5:43	McGill	14 Connor Goodwin (C) Unassisted
1:42	Bishop's	15 James Malloy Assisted by: 23 Dewar

3rd Quarter Scoring
TIME	TEAM	SCORING DETAIL
13:34	Bishop's	8 Mason Austen Assisted by: 23 Dewar
8:27	Bishop's	6 Sam Fontaine Unassisted
7:13	McGill	20 Spencer Bromley Unassisted
5:30	McGill	88 Rhys Burnell Assisted by: 23 Laird
0:03	McGill	88 Rhys Burnell Assisted by: 8 Bradley

4th Quarter Scoring
TIME	TEAM	SCORING DETAIL
8:26	McGill	19 Anders Bjella (C) Unassisted
4:20	Bishop's	22 Rhett Handley Unassisted
2:45	Bishop's	23 Ryan Dewar Unassisted

1st Quarter Penalties
TIME	TEAM	PENALTY DETAIL
No Penalties

2nd Quarter Penalties
TIME	TEAM	PENALTY DETAIL
17:40	McGill	16 Mullen Personal 1 minutes
5:11	Bishop's	22 Handley Personal 1 minutes
2:10	McGill	27 Fontaine Technical 0.5 minutes

3rd Quarter Penalties
TIME	TEAM	PENALTY DETAIL
No Penalties

4th Quarter Penalties
TIME	TEAM	PENALTY DETAIL
5:42	Bishop's	10 Kinakin Personal 1 minutes
4:03	McGill	4 Sassone-Lawless Personal 1 minutes

McGill

#	Player	G	A	PTS	PPG	SHG	PIMS
14	Goodwin (C), Connor	2	0	2	0	0	0
19	Bjella (C), Anders	2	0	2	0	0	0
88	Burnell, Rhys	2	0	2	0	0	0
20	Bromley, Spencer	1	0	1	0	0	0
8	Bradley, Quinton	0	1	1	0	0	0
23	Laird, Drew	0	1	1	0	0	0
12	Lekacz, Alex	0	0	0	0	0	0
21	Rakoczy (C), Paul	0	0	0	0	0	0
10	Frost (C), Rufus	0	0	0	0	0	0
44	Roussos, Alec	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	Gutman, Jake	0	0	0	0	0	0
40	Nix, Hayden	0	0	0	0	0	0
55	Williams, Dan	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Sassone-Lawless, Emile	0	0	0	0	0	1
28	Hofmann, Bradley	0	0	0	0	0	0
24	Tse, Matthew	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	Bouzianis, Matt	0	0	0	0	0	0
50	Bolton, Goose	0	0	0	0	0	0
13	Genereux, Louis-Charles	0	0	0	0	0	0
27	Fontaine, Shawn	0	0	0	0	0	0.5
77	Beckes, Alex	0	0	0	0	0	0
36	Wilson, Ben	0	0	0	0	0	0
16	Mullen, Brendan	0	0	0	0	0	1
11	Abric, Durham	0	0	0	0	0	0
9	Van Hees, Eric	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	Murdoch, Maxime	0	0	0	0	0	0
25	Rougeau, Paul	0	0	0	0	0	0
37	Wickersham, Cyrus	0	0	0	0	0	0
99	Hosking, Bohe	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Vickery, James	0	0	0	0	0	0

#	McGill Goaltender	Mins	Shots	GA
5	Waesche, William	80:00	17	6

Bishop's

#	Player	G	A	PTS	PPG	SHG	PIMS
23	Dewar, Ryan	1	2	3	0	0	0
8	Austen, Mason	1	0	1	0	0	0
27	Hall, Robert	1	0	1	0	0	0
22	Handley, Rhett	1	0	1	0	0	1
15	Malloy, James	1	0	1	0	0	0
6	Fontaine, Sam	1	0	1	0	0	0
5	Brands, Nicholas	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	Haddon, Bradley	0	0	0	0	0	0
28	Lewis, Matt	0	0	0	0	0	0
24	McNeil, Andrew	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	Bouchard, Etienne	0	0	0	0	0	0
42	Jackson, Shayne	0	0	0	0	0	0
99	Murphy, Keegan	0	0	0	0	0	0
39	Winquist, Simon	0	0	0	0	0	0
10	Kinakin, Leigh	0	0	0	0	0	1
45	Bateman, Cam	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Tooth, Alex	0	0	0	0	0	0
26	Heon, Alex	0	0	0	0	0	0
21	Beattie, Scott	0	0	0	0	0	0
19	Bowker, Tim	0	0	0	0	0	0
29	Cook, Taren	0	0	0	0	0	0
17	Cook, Andrew	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	Arsenault, Ryan	0	0	0	0	0	0
44	McAnuff, Sean	0	0	0	0	0	0
33	Marceau, Sam	0	0	0	0	0	0
73	Wright, Joel	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	Reynolds, Aidan	0	0	0	0	0	0
13	Holliday, Phil	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Mccrea, Kyle	0	0	0	0	0	0
9	Martineau, Nick	0	0	0	0	0	0