Moncton Mustangs’ Steven Fox, right, celebrates his fourth quarter touchdown against the Dartmouth Knights with teammate Josh Dickinson in the Maritime Football League championship game at Rocky Stone Memorial Field on Saturday.
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The Mustangs won their fourth consecutive McIntyre Cup with a 29-10 win over the Dartmouth Knights in the Maritime Bowl IX league championship game Saturday at Rocky Stone Memorial Field.
Quarterback Donovan Boucher threw a pair of touchdown passes to lead Moncton to its 23rd straight victory, a streak that dates back to July 4, 2008.
How dominant have the Mustangs become? They have gone 37-1 in the regular season and playoffs combined since 2007.
“You work hard all season long to try to get to this point and win a game,” said Moncton head coach Rob Weir, whose team went 8-0 overall on the season.
‘It’s nice to have the history that we have winning championships, but this is the season that matters the most right now. This is the one that counts and this is the reason you work so hard for, to have a moment like we did on Saturday. Next year, it will be that title that counts the most.”
The Mustangs scored a pair of second-quarter touchdowns to take a 14-0 lead into halftime. Moncton got on the board early in the second quarter when Boucher hooked up with receiver Olivier Eddie on an 85-yard catch and run for a major.
Then, with just six seconds left on the clock, the Mustangs pulled a fake field goal play out of their bag of tricks. James Michener found Colin Weldon in the end zone to go up by two touchdowns.
The Knights came to life on their first drive of the third quarter and it ended with Ryan Moxom running in from six yards out to cut the lead to 14-7.
Moncton answered though on a three-yard touchdown run by Steve Cormier to go ahead 21-7. The score was set up by a nice catch and run from Boucher to Weldon.
The Mustangs put the game away early in the fourth quarter when Steve Fox made a spectacular, one-handed reaching touchdown catch from Boucher with just his toes inbounds.
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