McMaster Marauders battle for playoff spot Saturday – Hamilton

The previous sports activities cliche says “win and also you’re in.”

For the McMaster Marauders, it’s “win, and preserve your fingers crossed.”

The two-3 Marauders host the 3-2 Guelph Gryphons at Ron Joyce Stadium Saturday afternoon.

Heading into the ultimate week of the OUA common season, there are eight totally different playoff eventualities for the varied groups.

For Mac, the simplest path to a playoff berth is that this – beat Guelph and hope that Waterloo loses to Laurier.

Anything, and you might get a headache making an attempt to determine it out.

The sport story has one huge query: Can the Mac offensive line defend quarterback Andreas Dueck so he can get the ball to his playmakers?

Guelph leads the OUA with 18 sacks. Mac has given up 20 sacks.

Nonetheless it performs out, it’ll be a day of drama.

CHML protection begins at 1 p.m.

Participant profile: Andreas Dueck

It’s an previous adage – soccer is the last word crew sport, nevertheless it all begins with the quarterback.

For the McMaster Marauders, that quarterback is Andreas Dueck. The fourth-year pivot determined to go away his hometown of Winnipeg, after graduating from Vincent Massey Secondary.

Merely put, he wished to get out and discover the world.

“After I went on the go to there, the factor that actually struck me was simply their setting and it felt good,” Dueck recalled. “The setting was fairly spectacular.”

In eight regular-season video games in 2019, Dueck accomplished 200 of 301 move makes an attempt for a 66.4 per cent completion common. He racked up 2,431 yards and 15 landing passes, with eight interceptions.

Dueck performs his closing residence recreation Saturday afternoon.