KELOWNA – The Okanagan Sun got the second half of the B.C. Football Conference season off on the right foot with a convincing 42-7 win over the winless Chilliwack Huskers 42-7 Sunday afternoon at the Apple Bowl.
The Sun (5-1) had not given up a point to the Huskers in the last 17 quarters and extended that streak to 19 by grabbing a 24-0 halftime lead.
The Sun opened the scoring on a one-yard touchdown plunge from Steven Doege, a defensive lineman who was part of the team’s jumbo package and pounded in his first BCFC touchdown.
Before the break, the Sun scored 90 seconds apart as quarterback Jeremy Mraovic hit Michael Friend with a 10-yard touchdown strike before Arman Bokitch found the end zone on an eight-yard touchdown scamper.
In the third quarter, the Huskers finally broke through the Sun and stopped their scoreless streak. After a Sun fumble, defensive back Tanner Hamade rumbled 47 yards to paydirt for a Husker score.
The Sun added two more touchdowns in the fourth quarter. Doege punched in a second touchdown from two yards out and Carson Park intercepted a pass and returned it 15 yards.
Kicker Steven McFadyen hit field goals from 34 and 29 yards.
“We were committed to run the football,” said new offensive coordinator Jay Christensen.
It showed, as the Sun racked up 313 yards with Bokitch carrying 13 times for 104 yards and a TD. New fullback Evin Polack carried seven times for 72 yards and back-up Alex Bradley had an impressive five carries for 74 yards.
Mraovic completed 11 of 22 passes for 131 yards and a TD.
The Sun travel to Victoria on Saturday for a date with the Westshore Rebels at 7 p.m. The Sun hammered the Rebels 49-7 in Week 4 and the Rebels fell 52-8 to the unbeaten Vancouver Island Raiders last weekend.
Fulton grad Ben Olson earned a pair of solo tackles and one sack as the Langley Rams ambushed the visiting Kamloops Broncos 43-7 Saturday night at McLeod Stadium.
