Crapigna boots winning field goal in OT as Riders edge Redblacks 32-30
OTTAWA — The hometown boy made quite an impression on Friday night.
In his first professional game in the city in which he grew up playing, Tyler Crapigna had six field goals, including a 30-yarder in overtime, to pace the Saskatchewan Roughriders over the Ottawa Redblacks 32-30.
The win came in front of dozens of family and friends who mobbed the kicker on the field post game. Crapigna, who was born in nearby Nepean, Ont., had missed a 55-yard attempt on the final play of the fourth quarter that would have won the game a bit earlier for the Riders.
“I was thinking of trying to put it through the upright, that’s about it,” Crapigna said of his thought process prior to the one missed attempt.