A late interception from Tevaughn Campbell gave the Saskatchewan Roughriders a 34-30 victory over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in dramatic fashion Sunday.<\/p>\n
Winnipeg quarterback Zach Collaros connected with Dalton Schoen in the end zone for a last-minute touchdown, and the Blue Bombers set up for a two-point conversion that could have tied the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Instead, Campbell intercepted the ball and dashed 112 yards up the field to give the Roughriders two points and a win before a sellout crowd of 34,243 at Mosaic Stadium.<\/p>\n
The victory improved Saskatchewan\u2019s record to 9-2, good for first place in the CFL\u2019s West Division, while Winnipeg dropped to 6-5 for third place in the West.<\/p>\n
Riders QB Trevor Harris connected on 17-of-27 pass attempts for 219 yards with a touchdown, while Mario Andersson drove in two majors.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Collaros threw for 326 yards, making good on 26 of his 37 attempts with three TDs and one interception.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Saskatchewan held an eight-point lead heading into the final minute of the fourth quarter.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With the Bombers facing third and 14 from their own 36-yard line, Collaros attempted a long pass to Nic Demski. The pass fell incomplete, but Riders safety Jaxon Ford was penalized for pass interference, giving the Bombers the ball on the Saskatchewan 17-yard line.<\/p>\n
Three plays later, Collaros hit Schoen on a six-yard touchdown pass to cut the deficit to 32-30. Campbell’s big play came on the ensuing conversion attempt.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Riders took control of the contest in the fourth quarter when a disastrous offensive series by the Bombers led to a golden opportunity for Saskatchewan. After an offensive pass interference penalty against Demski, the Bombers proceeded to take two additional penalties that left them facing a second and 24 scenario from their own 17-yard line.<\/p>\n
Winnipeg resorted to a draw play with tailback Brady Oliveira, who fumbled at the 26-yard line with Saskatchewan\u2019s Jameer Thurman recovering the loose ball. Four plays later, tailback Anderson scored on a five-yard run.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The touchdown, Anderson\u2019s second of the game, was followed by a two-point conversion where Harris connected with Ajou Ajou to give the Riders a 31-17 lead with 10 minutes left in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
Winnipeg made things interesting when Collaros hit Keric Wheatfall on a 33-yard touchdown pass with 4:03 left in regulation to cut the Riders’ lead to 31-24.<\/p>\n
The Riders scored a single on a third-down quick kick by Harris with 1:21 left to make the score 32-24.<\/p>\n
The Bombers started the game strong with Oliveira scoring the game\u2019s first touchdown on the opening play of the second quarter on a five-yard run. The play was set up by a pair of long completions from Collaros to Demski, for 33 yards, and to Kevens Clercius, for 51 yards.<\/p>\n
Clercius made a spectacular twisting grab despite tight coverage from Marcus Sayles. The reception put the Bombers on the Riders’ eight-yard line and Oliveira scored two plays later.<\/p>\n
On Saskatchewan\u2019s next play, Harris fumbled deep in the Riders’ zone with Winnipeg linebacker Tony Jones recovering the ball on the Saskatchewan five-yard line. The Riders’ defence stiffened on two Winnipeg running plays, with the Bombers settling on a 10-yard field goal from Castillo for a 10-0 lead.<\/p>\n
With the Saskatchewan offence struggling, the defence came up with another big play as Malik Carney sacked Collaros on the Winnipeg seven-yard line with the tackle forcing a fumble. Carney recovered the ball on his second sack of the game and the Riders took over.<\/p>\n
Tailback A.J. Ouellette then scampered seven yards for the touchdown, cutting Winnipeg\u2019s lead to 10-7 midway through the quarter.<\/p>\n
Harris got the offence rolling late in the half, directing a four-play, 102-yard drive that culminated with a 69-yard touchdown pass to Tommy Nield. The major, coming with 2:36 left in the half, gave Saskatchewan a 14-10 lead.<\/p>\n
After the Riders increased their lead to 17-10 midway through the third quarter on a 34-yard field goal by Brett Lauther, the Bombers responded with a five-play, 70-yard drive culminating with a 22-yard touchdown grab by Demski. On the drive Demski had three catches for 47 yards.<\/p>\n
Saskatchewan answered Demski\u2019s major with a seven-play, 87-yard scoring drive.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Anderson finished on a 26-yard run around the right end, breaking a number of tackles on the way to the end zone with 22 seconds left in the third. Lauther missed the point after attempt and the Riders had a 23-17 lead.<\/p>\n
The teams will meet in the second game of a home-and-home series on Sept. 6 when the Bombers host the Riders in the Banjo Bowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A late interception from Tevaughn Campbell gave the Saskatchewan Roughriders a 34-30 victory over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-111007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}