{"id":260617,"date":"2025-11-04T08:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T08:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/260617\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T08:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T08:11:07","slug":"davis-alexander-leads-montreal-to-win-in-cfl-playoff-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/260617\/","title":{"rendered":"Davis Alexander leads Montreal to win in CFL playoff opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Portland State quarterback Davis Alexander guided the Montreal Alouettes to a 42-33 win over Winnipeg to open the Canadian Football League playoffs on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander found Tyson Philpot on a 45-yard touchdown strike to put Montreal in command 17-0 at the end of the first quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg rushed back with three quick scores to take a 27-25 lead late in the third quarter. But Alexander hit Austin Mack for 50 yards to set up a short touchdown run to push Montreal back into the lead to stay.<\/p>\n<p>Leading 39-33 heading down the stretch, Alexander got loose on an 18-yard scramble and a first down to help set up a short field goal in the final minute to secure the win.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander finished the game completing 24-of-34 passes for 384 yards, while also rushing for 32 yards and a touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>The former Viking signal-caller stretched his CFL record to 12 consecutive wins to begin his CFL career.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal (11-8) plays at Hamilton in the Eastern Final at Noon on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Portland State quarterback Davis Alexander guided the Montreal Alouettes to a 42-33 win over Winnipeg to open&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-260617","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-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260617","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=260617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}