The York University Lions football team claimed its first Argo Cup since 2012 on Saturday afternoon with a dominant 41-16 victory over the rival Toronto Varsity Blues in the 48^th annual Red & Blue Bowl at Alumni Field.
 
Fifth-year receiver Adam Adeboboye, playing in his final game against his city rivals, made sure his team was victorious on Saturday, returning from injury to set a new Red & Blue Bowl record with 14 receptions, gaining 140 yards and scoring a pair of touchdowns.
 
Both scoring passes came from third-year quarterback Brett Hunchak, who had his best game of the season going 19-of-27 for 244 yards, with three touchdown passes and no interceptions. He also picked up 22 yards on the ground on three carries.

"It feels great!," said head coach Warren Craney about the result. "I'm really proud of how our guys played today. All in all, I think we dominated almost every aspect of that football game. We made a lot of correctable mistakes, but it's a good leap forward to the second half of the season."
 


The game did not begin the way the Lions would have hoped. On the first drive, a long return was negated by penalty and they started on their own six-yard line, going 2-and-out and ultimately conceding a safety. But it was all York after that.
 
The Lions stuffed the Blues on a third-down attempt on Toronto's first drive and then rookie kicker Dante Mastrogiuseppe nailed a 34-yard field goal for York's first points of the game. Toronto's next drive ended with a 43-yard interception return by rookie defensive back Talik Ehouman, and two drives later the Lions scored their first touchdown of the afternoon, an eight-yard catch by Alex Daley to make it 10-2, the score after the first quarter.
 
Third-year running back Jesse Amankwaa extended the lead in the second with a two-yard touchdown run that capped a seven-play, 100-yard drive highlighted by the play of the game. Facing first-and-10 from their own 49-yard line, Hunchak was wrapped up around the waist but somehow escaped and then found Daley a few yards down field. Daley turned and sprinted 59 yards before he was tackled right before the end zone.
 
Two plays after Amankwaa's score the Lions got on the board again with a 10-yard fumble recovery touchdown by second-year defensive end Rossini Sandjong-Djabome that he picked up after a huge strip-sack by second-year linebacker Damian Jamieson. That made it 24-2, a lead the Lions carried into halftime.


 
The Lions' offence struggled to get anything going in the third quarter and Toronto scored the only points of the frame, a two-yard touchdown run by quarterback Clay Sequeira.
 
The offence came to life again in the fourth when the Lions began the frame with an 11-play, 90-yard drive that ended with Adeboboye's first touchdown.
 
The Blues had a big play on the next drive, an 85-yard touchdown by Jaykwon Thompson, but soon after Adeboboye found the end zone again with a great individual effort to reach over the goal line and add to the Lions' lead. Another field goal by Mastrogiuseppe rounded out the scoring.
 
Sequeira finished the game 10-of-19 for 225 yards, with one touchdown and one interception. Toronto starting quarterback Connor Ennis went 5-of-9 for 54 yards.
 
The Lions improved to 1-3 with the victory, and the Blues now have the same score after the loss.
 
The Lions will finally head back out on the road again next weekend with a trip to Hamilton, Ont., to take on the McMaster Marauders on Saturday beginning at 1pm.