Football Canada Cup, Day 1, Game 1: Alberta 76, New Brunswick 00

The following recap is copied from Football Alberta's website.

Different year, same result as Alberta scored on every possesion of the game and held the New Brunswick offense in check to the point where they never crossed mid-field, which was very reminicent of last years 79-6 thrashing of New Brunswick in the same game. 

Quarterback Alex Basilis (St. Mary's, Calgary) started things off rushing for the first two TD's of the game from 1 and 7 yards respectively which was followed by three more Alberta rushing TD's in the first quarter from Myles Browne (Notre Dame, Calgary), Jacob Janke (Harry Ainlay, Edmonton) and Landon Rosene (H.J. Cody, Sylvan Lake) to make it 34-0. New Brunswick's lone bright spot was a blocked convert on the second Alberta TD. 

The second quarter saw more Alberta firepower but this time through the air as Des Catellier (St. Francis, Calgary) hooked up with Tristan Getzinger (Medicine Hat) and Sam Clayton (Bev Facey, Sherwood Park) for TD passes of 15 and 32 yards respectively. That was followed by TD run from Browne of 42 yards and to make it 55-0 at the half. 

The second half saw a running clock and TD's from Rosene of 2 yards, Cam St. Amand (Bishop Carroll, Calgary) with a 10 yard fumble recovery, and finally Kelton Bailey (Peace River) with a 58 yard pass and run from Basilis.

New Brunswick's Head Coach took the best attitude possible.

Despite the win New Brunswick head coach, Chris Hopkins was happy with his team’s improvement over the course of its first 2014 Canada Cup contest. 

“I’m happy the guys battled hard non-stop. We can in with the goal of getting better every rep with maximum effort and that’s exactly what we did.” 

We played four quarters of football, got better every rep. Every rep throughout with week is going to make us better and that’s what this tournament is about – changing the culture of Football New Brunswick...”

MVPs
Alberta offense: WR Jacob Janke - I gather that Janke must have done some spectacular things in the return game because he is not credited with any receptions.  He is, however, credited with two carries for 58 yards and a score.
Alberta defense: DL Bobby Sugai - Two tackles, two assists and a sack.

New Brunswick offense: QB Gordon Brown - six completions on nine attempts, for 67 yards.
New Brunswick defense: DB Kyle Baxter - Three solo tackles