2011 Sep. 23-25: Résultats des parties / Game results

The midget team's game against the Lakeshore Cougars turned out to be a speed contest - Stallions' speed on offense versus the Cougars' speed on defense. That and turnovers. Whereas the Cougars committed two of them, Stallions turned the ball over six times.

At the start of the game, it looked like it was going to be another easy win for the Stallions. They scored on their first two possessions after barely seven minutes of play to take a 14-0 lead. With less than three minutes left to play in the first half and leading 14-7, they had a chance to increase their lead with a first down at the Cougars 25-yd line. On the ensuing play they handed the ball off to Kevin Cronn who went right through the Cougars d-line and headed for the corner of the end zone. It looked like a sure touchdown. However, Lakeshore's Shanton Smith managed to chase him down and made a tackle at the 1-yd line. Stallions fans thought that he simply delayed the inevitable but it turned out to be the turning point of the game because on the next play, Stallions fumbled the ball and Lakeshore's Lucky Daniels recovered it, just like he did in exactly the same situation at the start of the season against the Victoriaville Vicas. The Cougars then put together a 108-yd, six play scoring drive to tie the game at 14-14 which gave them the momentum from then on. The key play on that drive was a 55-yd run by Cougars' QB William Lemire on a third down play from his own team's 5-yd line.

Stallions got back in front 21-14 near the end of the 3-rd quarter but Cougars took advantage of an interception by Greg Hansen (almost exactly like he did against the Vicas) that gave them the ball at the Stallions 7-yd line to tie the game at 21-21 at the start of the 4-th quarter. Lakeshore took the lead right after thanks to a touchdown on a 70-yd punt return and sealed the win with another TD on their next possession.

On offense, Serge Pilon was again outstanding for the Stallions gaining 155 yards on 21 carries and 68 yards on two catches. Lakeshore's Peter Taddeo, however, matched him almost step-for-step with 144 yards on 17 carries.

On defense, the players who stood our for Stallions were Etienne Asselin and Xavier Gagnon-Tremblay who each had a sack and Antonin Cusson-Delisle who recovered a fumble. Asselin, Gagnon-Tremblay, Gerry -Dean Mavrokefalos, Alexandre Normand and Jean-Danny Chouinard were the leading tacklers.