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Two days before flying out to Ontario, the Saskatoon Hilltops were feasting on cinnamon buns, courtesy of offensive lineman Ryder Klisowsky’s mom.

Oh, it’s been a sweetened football diet for those reigning five-time Canadian Bowl champion Hilltops, who are two wins closer to a sixth-straight Canadian Junior Football League title.

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On Saturday night, the Prairie Football Conference champions will face the Ontario Football Conference champion London Beefeaters — named after the Tower of London guards and not the animal protein diet — in London, Ont.

Those two programs last met back in 2012 when the Hilltops hammered the visiting Beefeaters 51-7 in CJFL national semifinal action.

Toppers head coach Tom Sargeant is well aware of the 2019 edition and he’s not resting on his laurels. These won’t be football strangers.

“We know lots,” said Sargeant, whose Hilltops have 21 national titles to their credit since 1953.