After claiming their first victory of the 2014 football season on Saturday with a 61-0 victory over the York Lions, the No. 3 CIS ranked Mustangs (1-0) will now travel to Kingston to go head-to-head with their long-time rivals in the Queen's Gaels (1-1). In fact Saturday's contest will be the 90th time that Queen's and Western have lined up opposite one another on the gridiron.

Saturday`s match up is sure to be an exciting one, with the Gaels looking to earn some payback for last year's 50-31 loss to the Mustangs at Western's Homecoming—a game which drew a sell-out crowd of 12,185—as well as for their 51-22 defeat at the hands of the purple and white in the 2013 Yates Cup final.

Western, on the other hand, will be looking to start an early winning streak after registering their seventh straight season-opening victory this past weekend against York. Interestingly enough, the last team to hand the Mustangs a loss in their first game of the season was Queen's in 2007, and while the Gaels won't have an opportunity to spoil Western's season opener this year they will certainly be looking to throw a wrench in any plans for an early Mustangs roll.

But in order to do so, they're going to have to stop Western's potent offence and solve their strong defence, both of which got off to a strong start against the Lions on Saturday.

Leading the Mustangs offence in the first game of the 2014 campaign was third-year quarterback Will Finch. Finch threw for 253 yards and three touchdowns in Saturday`s game, completing 21 of 25 passes to help Western get their season started with a 61-0 win over the Lions.  

On the defensive side of the ball, the Mustangs were led by sophomore defensive back Jesse McNair and third-year defensive back Malcolm Brown, as the duo racked up four tackles each to keep the Lions offence from entering the Mustangs end zone through the four frames of action.

Mustangs kicker Zack Medeiros will suit up for his second career OUA game this Saturday after making his Mustangs debut against the Lions. Medeiros made his mark in his first OUA start, going 4-6 on field goals while adding three singles and six extra points for 21 total points on the afternoon.

Queen's heads into Saturday's match-up fresh off of a tough 37-30 loss to the Ottawa Gee-Gees last weekend that brought their record to 1-1. The Gaels opened the season on September 1 with a 39-30 road victory over Windsor.

Leading the Gaels attack last Saturday was third year receiver Curtis Carmichael, who had a game-high 134 yards receiving on eight catches with one touchdown, while veteran quarterback Billy McPhee dominated the air, throwing for two touchdowns and recording over 300 yards in the matchup.  

At the other end of the field, third-year defensive back Brendan Morgan led the Gaels defensive pressure as he racked up 11.5 total tackles on the day, including 10 solo tackles.

Game time is set for 1 p.m. on Saturday, September 13 at Kingston`s Richardson Stadium. Fans can watch the action live on OUA.tv, or listen on CHRW or on CJBK with Tom McConnell and legendary Mustangs coach Larry Haylor calling all the action.