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THE GAME
Two of the four Canada West teams currently tied for second place in the conference with 1-1 records battle on Saturday night, as the University of Regina Rams host the Saskatchewan Huskies at Mosaic Stadium. Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m.

BROADCAST INFO
Michael Ball and Marco Ricci will have the call on 620ckrm.com, while Access7 will rebroadcast the game on Sunday at 1 p.m. The game will also be available on Max Local on Demand beginning next week, and the Darryl Skender/Kelly Bowers duo will be live on CK750 out of Melfort.

THE HEADLINES
- Both teams are ranked in this week's FRC-CIS Top Ten, with the Huskies at No. 6 and the Rams checking in at No. 9 for the second week in a row
- The teams will also play in Saskatoon on Friday, Oct. 29, marking the second consecutive season that the Rams and Huskies have met twice in the conference schedule
- Saskatchewan enters the game on a four-game winning streak against the Rams and hold a 14-4 advantage in the 18 conference games played between the two teams
- The Rams are 5-8 all-time against Saskatchewan at Mosaic Stadium (including playoffs)
- Saskatchewan leads Canada West in both yards of total offence (452.5/game) and least yards of total offence allowed (346/game)
- The Rams are tied for the conference lead in both interceptions (4) and sacks (6) and have yet to concede a point in the first quarter this season
- Regina QB Marc Mueller leads Canada West in completions (41) and passing yards (530)
- Regina's Brenden Owens leads the conference in receptions (13) and receiving yards (214)
- The Rams have committed just one turnover in their first two games of the season
- Regina DB Steve Famulak had another sack against Calgary and has 3½ for the season
- Saskatchewan's Luke Thiel leads Canada West with an average of 17.4 yards per punt

UNIVERSITY OF REGINA RAMS (1-1)
After a 45-11 win over Manitoba in Week 1 to start off the Canada West schedule, the Rams saw their record drop back down to the .500 mark after suffering a 24-21 loss to Calgary last week.

The Rams had the ball deep in Calgary territory trailing by five points in the final minute, but an interception by Calgary's Michael Lau snuffed out the potential game-winning drive. The Dinos gave up a safety and gave the ball back to the Rams on their own 35-yard line with eight seconds left, but it wasn't enough time to get into Chris Bodnar's range for a game-tying field goal.

Running back Adrian Charles had a fantastic game for the Rams, rushing for 135 yards and scoring both of the team's majors on one-yard plunges. His 135-yard effort was the first time a U of R player reached triple digits in rushing yards since the 2008 season.

Quarterback Marc Mueller was 25-for-41 and piled up 341 passing yards. Brenden Owens was his top receiver for the second consecutive game, ending up with eight catches for 117 yards. Starting his second consecutive game at slotback, Rory Copithorn enjoyed career highs in both receptions (6) and receiving yards (85).

Safety Matt Yausie was credited with a team-leading 12 total tackles (11 solo, two assisted) last week against Calgary and now leads the Rams with 15½ tackles for the season.

UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN HUSKIES (1-1)
After a convincing 34-13 road win over defending Canada West champion Calgary to open the season, Saskatchewan was ranked No. 2 in last week's FRC-CIS Top Ten. The top-two ranking was short-lived, however, as Saskatchewan dropped a 31-12 decision at home to the UBC Thunderbirds last week and saw its ranking plummet to No. 6.

Ben Coakwell was among Saskatchewan's bright spots last week, rushing 16 times for 104 yards against the Thunderbirds to register his second 100-yard effort in as many weeks. With 213 rushing yards for the season, Coakwell ranks behind only Alberta's Matthew Jarvis (234) and Regina's Adrian Charles (218) in the category.

The Huskies started quarterback Laurence Nixon last week against UBC, but replaced him with Trent Peterson late in the third quarter in an attempt to spark the offence. Peterson, in his first year back in the country after a two-year Mormon mission in Paraguay, was 7-for-11 and had 78 passing yards, including a 10-yard touchdown strike to Mitch Stevens midway through the fourth quarter.

Safety Bryce McCall has been the Huskies' leader on defence this season, recording a team-high 13½ total tackles and one of the team's two interceptions.

After Saturday's game against the Rams, the Huskies will prepare for a road game against Canada West-leading Alberta (2-0) on Friday, Sept. 24.

...BUT HE'S JUST A LITTLE GUY!
Usually a conference's leader in sacks is a physically imposing figure. Take Alberta's Craig Gerbrandt (6'2”, 250 lbs.) for example, who led Canada West in sacks in 2009. Or two-time conference sack leader Scott McCuaig from UBC, who stood 6'4” and checked in at 255 lbs.

Well, so far this season, score one for the little guy. Rams dimeback Steve Famulak is all of 5'10” and tips the scales at 185, but recorded another sack last week against Calgary to bring his Canada West-leading total to 3½ for the season.

Famulak - who was the conference's Defensive Player of the Week following the Manitoba game - is the only player in Canada West with more than two sacks and is already more than halfway to reaching the Rams' single-season mark of six, set by Sean Brimacombe back in 2005.

UP THE CHARTS FOR OWENS
Fourth-year slotback Brenden Owens is starting to make his mark on the U of R's all-time charts. He now ranks seventh on the Rams' list in career touchdown catches (10), ninth in career receptions (83), and 10th in career receiving yards (1224).

FORMER RAMS IN THE PROS
The impressive list of former University of Regina players now toiling in the professional ranks is led by the Seattle Seahawks' Jon Ryan, who ranked No. 8 in the NFL last season with an average of 46.2 yards per punt.

Seven former University of Regina Rams are now in the CFL, including Chris Bauman (Hamilton), Jason Clermont (Saskatchewan), Chris Getzlaf (Saskatchewan), Neal Hughes (Saskatchewan), Nick Hutchins (Saskatchewan), Brendon LaBatte (Winnipeg), and Jordan Sisco (Saskatchewan).

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