Ticats, Bombers to bid farewell to Ivor Wynne
The Ticats are home to face the Bombers on Saturday afternoon, as they look to close out the final regular season game at Ivor Wynne Stadium with an important divisional win.
Every team in the East remains in the race for a playoff berth, and for these two division foes Saturday afternoon presents a chance to move one step closer to getting some post-season action in 2012.
For Henry Burris and the Black and Gold, they are looking to give their fans one last regular season game to remember at their old barn and bounce back from a loss where they played one of their best performances of the season on a snow-covered field at McMahon Stadium in Calgary.
An impressive late comeback effort came up just short on a last-play field goal attempt, when the ball slipped off the tee forcing holder Andy Fantuz to pull it away, ending the game in a 34-32 Stampeders win.
Burris threw for 354 yards and a pair of touchdowns, including a late score to Chris Williams on a long last-minute drive to give the Tabbies a chance to tie it up.
The Stamps forced an incompletion on the two-point conversion attempt, but Hamilton recovered an onside kick from Luca Congi that couldn’t have been more perfect. Burris took over again, leading the Ticats deep into scoring range thanks to another long completion to Williams. But it wasn’t enough in the end.
With a return trip to Ivor Wynne coming quickly though, followed by an invasion of the Rogers Centre to duel with the hated Argos, this week Burris and the ‘Cats have their focused pinned squarely on Winnipeg, and the task of getting into the playoffs.
“I’ll have to deal with it when I go home in the off-season, but right now, it’s all about doing what we need to do to get into these playoffs,” said Burris of Saturday’s loss.
