STE. ANNE DE BELLEVUE, Que -- Thomas Stokes of Vancouver, B.C., scored 10 points and made a last-second penalty-kick as McGill rallied from a 15-point halftime deficit to hand the Universite de Montreal Carabins a crushing 20-18 defeat in men's rugby, Saturday. Due to advance preparations for Sunday's CFL game at Percival Molson Stadium, the rugby contest was played at McEwen Field, a well-manicured grass pitch located on McGill's West Island based Macdonald campus.

The victory extended McGill's unblemished record to 6-0 atop the RSEQ standings, while the Carabins dropped to 4-2.

Stokes, a fifth-year political science senior, made two penalty kicks and added a pair of conversions to spark the Redmen offence. He put McGill on the board with his first penalty goal at the eight-minute mark to give the Redmen an early 3-0 lead. But the pesky Carabins then scored 18 unanswered points on a pair of tries -- from Nicolas Monlouis-Bonnaire and Éloi Collignon -- a rare drop-kick goal and a penalty kick -- all by Pierre Constantin -- to take an 18-3 lead into halftime.

The Redmen came out of the intermission with their own scoring rampage on tries by Bernard Kaminski, a junior from Pte. Claire, Que., and freshmen Sebastien Boyer from Montreal. Both tries were converted by Stokes, who then made the game-winning kick in the 79th minute.

McGill (6-0) can go undefeated in regular season play if they win their final regular season game on oct. 25, when they host Bishop's (4-2).

SCORING SUMMARY
McGill 20, Montreal 18
(at McEwen Field, Ste. Anne de Belleview)

FIRST HALF:
8' McGILL: Thomas Stokes PENALTY KICK (McGill 3-0)
9' MONTREAL: Pierre Constantin DROP-KICK GOAL (Montreal 3, McGill 3)
19' MONTREAL Pierre Constantin PENALTY KICK (Montreal 6-3)
25' MONTREAL Nicolas Monlouis-Bonnaire TRY (converted by Constantin) (Montreal 13-3)
36' MONTREAL Éloi Collignon TRY (conversion missed by Constantin) (Montreal 18-3)
 
SECOND HALF:
60' McGILL: Bernard Kaminski TRY (converted by Stokes), (Montreal 18-10)
75' McGILL: Sebastien Boyer TRY (converted by Stokes), (Montreal 18-17)
79' McGILL: Thomas Stokes PENALTY KICK (McGill 20-18)

 

2015 RSEQ Men's Rugby Standings • Classement de la saison régulière 2015	Bris d'égalité »	Imprimer »

Pos	WEST DIVISION	MJ	V	D	N	PP	PC	PTS	Bonis	PTS tot
1	Montréal	6	4	2	0	125	73	16	1	17
2	Concordia	6	3	3	0	91	107	12	1	13
3	Sherbrooke	6	0	6	0	59	116	0	3	3

Pos	EAST DIVISION	GP	W	L	T	PF	PA	PTS	Bonus Pts	TOT PTS
1	McGill	6	6	0	0	197	51	24	2	26
2	Bishop's	6	4	2	0	122	106	16	3	19
3	ETS	6	1	5	0	57	198	4	0	4

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