In a game that had big standings implications the Stampeders couldn’t scrap past the Lions in OT.
Calgary fell to the visiting BC Lions 31-29 to fall to 8-5 on the season.
Jake Maier went 26-for-38 for 301 yards and three touchdowns.
Ka’Deem Carey rushed the ball 10 times for 61-yards.
Malik Henry caught four passes for 107-yards and one touchdown.
On defence, Cam Judge was a dominant force. He had nine tackles, a forced fumble and one fumble recovery.
The Lions wasted no time finding the endzone on Saturday night with a penalty aided first drive that ended in a James Butler 10-yard touchdown run to make the score 7-0 early.
Calgary responded with a good drive of their own.
Maier found Luther Hakunavanhu for 22-yards deep into Lions territory before the drive stalled, leading to a 38-yard Rene Paredes field goal to put the Stamps on the board.
The points would continue to come in the first quarter as BC once again put some first downs together with the help of an illegal contact penalty and then added three points on a field goal to make it 10-3 after one quarter of play.
Calgary came up with a big play early in the second quarter on the first play after a BC punt.
No. 12 found who else than his favourite target Malik Henry for 77-yard bomb to even the score 10-10.
MALIK.
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The Lions pushed the ball deep into Stampeders territory at the three minute mark of the second quarter, but Judge forced a Vernon Adams Jr fumble and eventually recovered it as well at the Calgary 37-yardline.
The Stamps found the scoreboard again just before halftime as Maier guided the offence into field-goal range allowing Paredes to hit from 37-yards out with no time left in the half. Calgary went into the locker-room up 13-10.
The Lions wasted no time tying the game back up to start the second quarter after a seven play drive led them to a 30-yard field-goal.
BC took the lead late in the third quarter after the Stampeders took a pass interference penalty in the endzone.
Backup pivot Antonio Pipkin plunged into the pay dirt from one yard out to make the score 20-13, that would be the score heading into the final frame.
Calgary put together an eight play, 51-yard drive at the midway point of the final quarter that lead to a 13-yard Paredes field-goal to make the score 20-16 Lions.
BC counted on their next drive, after a long pass to the Calgary 35-yardline leading to an eventual 14-yard field-goal to put the Lions back up seven, 23-16.
Calgary started from their own 40-yardline and put together their best drive of the night.
Maier found Begelton on third-down at the BC 36-yardline to keep the drive alive and then tossed the ball to Hakunavanhu who was wide open in the endzone to tie the game up 23-23 with two minutes remaining.
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Mike Rose came up with a sack on first down forcing a second-and-long for the Lions who could not convert and had to punt the ball away with 1:13 remaining in the game.
The Stampeders got the ball into field-goal range but Paredes missed wide left from 48-yards away with 23 seconds left on the clock.
The Lions downed the ball to send the game to overtime tied 23-23.
The Leos started the first overtime period on offence. Adams Jr found Burnham to the Calgary 18-yardline and Butler would run it in from there to give BC the lead. They would make the two-point convert after a Stamps offside penalty making the score 31-23.
Maier hit Peyton Logan out of the backfield on the Stamps first offensive play. After converting on third down Maier found former CLGry Dino Jalen Philpot in the endzone to bring them within a two-point convert. Maier threw it to Begelton in the endzone but it fell incomplete. Stamps Head Coach Dave Dickenson felt Begelton was interfered with and challenged but the booth disagreed.
The Lions defeated the Stampeders 31-29 in overtime.
THEY SAID IT:
NEXT UP:
The Stamps head to BC for a rematch with the Lions next Saturday, September 24 at 8pm.
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