Oct. 30 - The Bison football squad won their last regular season match of the 2004 season, 41-36 over the SFU Clan. The team however, was eliminated from the Canada West playoffs after Calgary upset UBC 26-17 to clinch fourth place.

A crowd of 550 saw almost 1,200 yards in offense for the two teams and had both quarterbacks throw for almost 900 yards combined.

The back-and-forth game started slow with a 3-3 score after the first quarter.

The teams produced four touchdowns (two each) in the second quarter. SFU Clan Brendan Mahoney grabbed two TDs of 22 and 27 yards while Bison Blair Atkinson matched him with a 50 yarder and 26 yard TD catches to make the score 19-17 at the half.

In the second half, Atkinson hauled in his third touchdown of the game while SFU countered with a 29 yard pass to Brent Cowden. After three, Manitoba 27-24.

In the fourth, the Bisons had two touchdown drives within a two minute span to take a 14 point lead with 3:28 left in the game. A.J. Zeglen scored his fifth TD of the season on a 16 yard pass while Bison quarterback Ryan Zahara plunged in from one yard. SFU made it close with a safety and a last second run by starting quarterback J.R. Davies but fell short and the Bisons prevailed for a 41-36 win.

For SFU, J.R. Davies went 27-44 for 495 yards and 3 TD. Mahoney had nine catches for 156 yards and 2 TDs, Cowden had seven catches for 94 yards and 1 TD and Jesse Costello had five receptions for 135 yards. SFU had 605 total yards.

Starting QB Ryan Zahra led the Bisons by throwing for 390 yards (third most by a Bison in a game) on 16-30 with 4 TDs and one rushing TD. Darwin Thompson rumbled for 163 yards on the ground on 27 carries. Steve Gronick had eight catches for 181 yards and Atkinson had four receptions for 138 yards and three touchdowns. Manitoba had 539 total yards.

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