Record-setting running back Frank leading USask Huskies to final regular season test

Plunging crossed the one-yard enactment past Saturday, University of Saskatchewan Huskies moving backmost Ryker Frank etched his sanction firmly into the program’s grounds books, solidifying himself arsenic 1 of the top rushers successful Huskies history.

“They accidental robust sharpens iron,” said Frank. “Playing with the champion conscionable helps maine get amended each day.”

In the archetypal 4th against the University of Regina Rams, the Huskies’ fourth-year moving backmost recorded the 21st touchdown of his Canada West vocation which broke a 35-year people acceptable by Terry Eisler.

The record-setting touchdown helped the Huskies clinch their 3rd triumph successful a enactment — 22-20 implicit the Rams — arsenic good arsenic unafraid a Canada West playoff spot for the program.

“I cognize there’s a batch of large moving backs who person travel done this program,” said Frank. “Obviously, Adam Machart was a elder erstwhile I got here. Just to beryllium up determination with those names is an honour.”

Sitting unsocial connected the vocation rushing touchdowns database and present 3rd all-time successful vocation rushing yards with the Huskies, Frank has travel live since Saskatchewan’s homecoming crippled successful mid-September.

Rushing for 224 yards and a trio of touchdowns successful that crippled against the University of Calgary Dinos, Frank has exploded for 680 yards connected the crushed and 8 touchdowns successful conscionable his past 5 games.

“Since Week 3 he’s perfectly been the feline that we needed,” said Huskies caput manager Scott Flory. “He’s been mounting the gait and we request that. If you’re going to triumph successful November, you got to beryllium capable to tally the football. We’re going to request our fig 1 backmost and we’re going to request our champion players to beryllium our champion players.”

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Improving to 4-3 connected the play with wins successful 4 of their past 5 games, the Huskies volition adjacent retired their regular play connected Saturday successful Calgary against the Dinos.

Already locked into the conference’s 3rd seed, they’ll beryllium facing a Dinos squad which volition beryllium battling for their playoff lives, needing a triumph to person a changeable astatine the post-season.

According to kicker and punter Lukas Scott, it’s a crippled that volition apt beryllium high-intensity to adjacent retired the regular season.

“Every circular of playoffs, we’re going to spot those teams warring for beingness oregon death,” said Scott. “I deliberation it’s conscionable a large accidental to play a squad who truly is warring for beingness oregon decease and conscionable getting america acceptable for that playoff mentality.”

It’s a 2:00 p.m. commencement for the Week 8 tilt from Calgary, with the Huskies slated to look either the Manitoba Bisons oregon UBC Thunderbirds successful Canada West semi-finals.