{"id":271633,"date":"2025-11-09T07:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T07:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/271633\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T07:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T07:38:09","slug":"riders-score-late-td-to-down-lions-punch-ticket-to-grey-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/271633\/","title":{"rendered":"Riders score late TD to down Lions, punch ticket to Grey Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tommy Nield’s three-yard touchdown reception with 11 seconds left in the fourth quarter lifted the Saskatchewan Roughriders to a 24-21 victory over the B.C. Lions in the West Division final Saturday, sending the Riders to the Grey Cup.<\/p>\n

Trailing 21-17 with 1:03 left in the fourth quarter, the Riders drove 74 yards in seven plays to score the game-winning touchdown and punch their ticket to the Grey Cup. The Riders will play the Montreal Alouettes in the Grey Cup in Winnipeg on Nov. 16.<\/p>\n

The Alouettes advanced to the championship game with a 19-16 win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the East Division final earlier on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Riders held a 14-7 lead in the third quarter only to see the Lions score two touchdowns to go ahead 21-14.<\/p>\n

WATCH | QB Trevor Harris says ‘it’s our time’:\"\"<\/p>\n

‘It’s our time’: Saskatchewan Roughriders Quarterback Trevor Harris looks ahead to Grey Cup<\/p>\n

Tommy Nield’s three-yard touchdown reception from quarterback Trevor Harris with 11 seconds left in the game lifted the Saskatchewan Roughriders to a 24-21 West Division final victory over the visiting B.C. Lions. The Riders will travel to Winnipeg to play the Montreal Alouettes in next Sunday’s CFL Grey Cup game. <\/p>\n

The Riders were first-and-goal from the B.C. five-yard line with three minutes remaining but after two incompletions, head coach Corey Mace decided to settle for a field goal rather than gambling on third down. Lauther’s 13-yard field goal cut the deficit to 21-17 with 2:42 remaining.<\/p>\n

The Saskatchewan defence forced back-to-back two-and-out possessions to give their offence an opportunity to win the game.<\/p>\n

Defences controlled the first half of Saturday’s game, played before a sellout crowd of 33,350 at Mosaic Stadium. The teams combined for 11 punts in the half, six by the Riders and five by the Lions.<\/p>\n

B.C. scored the lone touchdown of the half on a nine-play, 103-yard drive late in the second quarter. B.C. quarterback Nathan Rourke, who was five-for-five passing on the drive, scored on a four-yard run with 4:09 left in the half to give the Lions a 7-1 lead.<\/p>\n

WATCH | Riders head coach says Grey Cup game will be a full team effort:\"\"<\/p>\n

Riders head coach says Grey Cup game will be a full team effort<\/p>\n

Head coach Corey Mace will lead the Saskatchewan Riders to the Grey Cup in just his second season in charge of the Green and White. <\/p>\n

Saskatchewan trimmed the lead to 7-4 as Brett Lauther connected on a 22-yard field goal on the final play of the half.<\/p>\n

Saskatchewan returns to the Grey Cup for the first time since 2013 when they defeated the Tiger-Cats 45-35.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-271633","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\/271633","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=271633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}