Chatham-Kent Cougars Shut Out in Burlington

Burlington proved to be too powerful for the Varsity and Junior Varsity Chatham-Kent Cougars this weekend as both teams were shut out with the Varsity Cougars losing 39-0 and the JV Cougars losing 53-0.

In the JV Chatham-Kent Cougars game, the Burlington Stampeders took it to the Cougars from start to finish. The Chatham-Kent defence saw a lot of playing time with Kameron Rylett-Ward getting his share of tackles with 7 and 2 fumble recoveries. Carter Wood had a QB sack  and 6 tackles, Erich Demars totalled 6 tackles and Anthony Cunha had 4. Last week’s star, Ben Bartlett of Charing Cross, who was also a key component of the Blenheim Bobcats junior high school squad, had 3 tackles and blocked a convert.

Offensively, Chatham-Kent JV Cougars quarterback Cole Herman threw 7 completions totalling 75 yards, while running back Tanner Emery accumulated 87  yards on 11 carries. Jon Ashby caught 2 passes for 24 yards, while Bartlett picked up 21 yards.

The next game is for the Chatham-Kent JV Cougars is on June 19th at 7:30pm, when CK will be hosting the Sarnia Sturgeons at the CKSS athletic complex  under the lights.

Statistics from the Varsity game were not available at the time of this post. This story will be updated as more information becomes available.