{"id":223723,"date":"2025-10-19T03:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T03:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/223723\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T03:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T03:43:09","slug":"stampeders-trample-argonauts-in-44-13-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/223723\/","title":{"rendered":"Stampeders trample Argonauts in 44-13 win"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Toronto Argonauts’ Da’Marcus Johnson closes in on Calgary Stampeders quarterback Vernon Adams Jr. during first half CFL football action on Saturday.Jeff McIntosh\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Vernon Adams Jr. threw three touchdown passes in the first half for the Calgary Stampeders in a 44-13 win over the Toronto Argonauts on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Cornerback Adrian Greene scored off an interception, Dedrick Mills contributed a rushing touchdown and Dominique Rhymes, Tevin Jones and Jalen Philpot each caught touchdown passes for Calgary (10-7-0).<\/p>\n

CFL rushing leader Mills ran the ball a season-high 115 yards for his fourth 100-plus game this season, and added 62 receiving yards.<\/p>\n

Rene Paredes kicked field goals from 49, 45 and 30 yards, but missed from 50, in front of an announced 22,528 at McMahon Stadium.<\/p>\n

Adams surpassed a career 20,000 passing yards with an interception-free 213 on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The quarterback, who went 12-for-14 in pass attempts, came out of the game late in the third quarter after he was sacked. Joshua Love completed five of eight pass attempts for 67 yards in relief.<\/p>\n

The Stampeders held a playoff berth before kickoff because of an Edmonton Elks 37-24 loss to the B.C. Lions on Friday night.<\/p>\n

So the stakes for Calgary on Saturday were the race for second in the West Division in a season that will feature a crossover to the East Division for the first time since 2019.<\/p>\n

The Saskatchewan Roughriders (12-5-0) host the West final Nov. 8.<\/p>\n

Calgary needs both a win over the Elks on Friday and the Lions (10-7-0) to drop their regular-season finale Saturday to Saskatchewan, to claim second in the West and host the division semifinal Nov. 1.<\/p>\n

The Lions hold the tiebreaker with a 2-0 record against the Stampeders this season.<\/p>\n

Calgary holds the tiebreaker (3-0) over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (9-8-0), who meet the Montreal Alouettes next Saturday.<\/p>\n

After winning the Grey Cup two of the last three years and reaching the East Division finals four straight years, Toronto (5-13-0) will finish outside the playoffs in 2025.<\/p>\n

Spencer Brown caught a touchdown pass from Max Duggan in the final minute of the game.<\/p>\n

Jarret Doege starting in place of injured Nick Arbuckle (shoulder) went 15-for-19 in passing for 119 yards and one interception.<\/p>\n

His third-quarter replacement Tucker Horn completed half of his eight pass attempts for 18 yards. Duggan in the fourth quarter went 13 for 16 for 109 yards.<\/p>\n

Lirim Hajrullahu kicked field goals from 56 and 50 yards, and missed from 58 and 47 yards.<\/p>\n

Calgary\u2019s defence produced four sacks, a forced fumble and a pass knockdown by halftime when the Stampeders led 28-7.<\/p>\n

Mills scored his 11th rushing touchdown this season on a one-yard charge in the third quarter.<\/p>\n

Adams threw to Jones and Philpot in the end zone in the second quarter for three-yard and seven-yard touchdowns, respectively.<\/p>\n

Hajrullahu\u2019s 56-yard field goal with less than a minute remaining in the first quarter gave him a dozen from over 50 yards this season.<\/p>\n

Adams scrambled to escape Toronto linebacker Branden Dozier and got a pass away to Rhymes for a 55-yard touchdown.<\/p>\n

Greene picked off Doege on Toronto\u2019s opening drive, when Argos wideout Dave Ungerer stumbled, and ran the ball back 64 yards to score for his second pick-six and sixth interception this season.<\/p>\n

Toronto countered with a 54-yard Hajrullahu field goal on the Argos\u2019 next drive.<\/p>\n

The Argonauts will finish the regular season on a bye week as the Stampeders conclude their regular season Friday in Edmonton against the Elks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Toronto Argonauts’ Da’Marcus Johnson closes in on Calgary Stampeders quarterback Vernon Adams Jr.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,2922,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-223723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-football-league","11":"tag-canadianfootballleague","12":"tag-cfl","13":"tag-noastack","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223723","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=223723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}