![]() Janssen completed 18 of 28 pass attempts for 251 yards with touchdowns to Maxim Malenfant (22 yards) and Scott Fulton (13 yards). Ottawa managed only 16 first downs and 351 yards. I felt confident we could execute.”Ĭarleton posted strong offensive numbers in the game with 22 first downs and 390 yards total offence. “We still had enough time to get ourselves into field-goal position and we practised that situation over the last two weeks. “I always believe we have an opportunity right to the last play,” Bellefeuille added. ![]() After being released by Calgary, he signed with the Saskatchewan Roughriders on July 10. He played a pre-season game for the Stampeders and kicked a 36-yard field goal. Being with the Stampeders and Roughriders over the summer I think really gave him confidence.”įair was selected by the Calgary Stampeders in the sixth round and 51st overall during the 2023 CFL Draft. He let the wind die a bit before asking for the ball. “Campbell did that last year, he had a 55-yarder to walk it off against Laurier at their homecoming,” said Marcel Bellefeuille, the Gee-Gees’ head coach. Last season, Fair used a 55-yard field goal with no time on the clock to give the Gee-Gees a 21-18 decision over the Wilfrid Laurier University Golden Hawks. Janssen then hit Nicholas Gendron for a 10-yard completion to the Ravens’ 48-yard line.Ĭarleton called a timeout with four seconds remaining to prepare for the final play and let Fair think a little longer about his monumental 55-yard field-goal try.įair also was the Gee-Gees’ hero at the 2021 Panda Game, when his 45-yard field goal with one minute remaining in the game gave Ottawa a come-from-behind 19-17 victory over Carleton. He followed by connecting with Noah Avery for a nine-yard gain, but that left a third-down and one-yard situation. The first-down pass by Gee-Gees quarterback Josh Janssen was incomplete. ![]() I have my mental process I follow for every kick, and obviously there was a little more pressure this time, but I tried to focus on the kick and not the moment.”Ĭarleton punter Joey Sciandra appeared to solidify the Ravens’ win with a 48-yard punt to the Ottawa 28-yard line, but Gee-Gees’ Charles Asselin made a 15-yard return to this team’s 43-yard line with 36 seconds remaining. “I’ve never had an experience like that and I don’t know if I ever will again. People were coming up to me and taking pictures, people I don’t even know,” Fair said in a story posted on the Gee-Gees’ website. “After the kick, celebrating with the whole university was crazy. ![]() Let the celebration begin, yet again, for the Gee-Gees, who now lead the Panda Games series 37-17.įair was fully focused for his game-winning field goal and not disturbed by anxious Ravens fans, who false-started their celebration by running onto the field, thinking the Gee-Gees’ kick would be missed, assuring a Carleton victory. The ball went about five yards into the end zone. But it wouldn’t be an automatic as Fair had missed an earlier 42-yard field goal attempt in the first quarter of the Panda Game.Īs the ball was snapped to holder/backup quarterback Matt Mahler and the clock showed no time, Fair booted a high, end-over-ball ball through the uprights. ![]() When Fair, 23, ran onto the field for his potential game-winning field goal from centre field, he was accustomed to solving that lengthy equation at least once in each of the past two seasons. The top six teams make the playoffs with three regular-season games remaining for the Gee-Gees and Ravens. The Ravens, meanwhile, dropped into a three-way tie for seventh place with Queen’s University Gaels and the University of Waterloo Warriors at 2-3. Played before 23,500 exuberant fans, the crosstown rivalry win allowed the Gee-Gees to move into fourth place alone in the OUA standings with a 3-2 record. The University of Ottawa Gee-Gees passed on the Ghostbusters and called the name of Campbell Fair for an uplifting, straight-as-an-arrow field goal to earn the victory.įor the third time in his five-year Gee-Gees career, placement kicker Fair was the man of the hour with no time on the clock during Sunday’s Panda Game at TD Place Stadium and delivered the Gee-Gees a critical win instead of a deflating defeat.įair matched his club record and set a Panda Game mark, when he struck a 55-yard field goal to give the Gee-Gees an 18-16 nail-biting decision over the Carleton University Ravens and a fifth-consecutive Panda Game victory. When the game is on the line and time is running out, who ya gonna call to decide the issue? ![]()
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