Davis Alexander, the No. 2-ranked passer in Portland State history, will play for the Grey Cup next weekend after guiding Montreal to a 19-16 win at Hamilton in the CFL Eastern Final on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Montreal never trailed in the game, taking a 13-3 lead when Alexander hit Tyler Snead for a 28-yard touchdown on the opening drive of the second half.<\/p>\n
Hamilton came back to tie the score 16-16 on a field goal with 1:47 to play.<\/p>\n
But Montreal got the ball back, and Alexander hit Charleston Rambo on a pair of quick strikes over the middle to move the ball into field-goal position, and Jose Maltos booted the winning kick from 45 yards out as time expired.<\/p>\n
Alexander completed 19-of-26 passes for 210 yards and a touchdown, while also leading the Alouettes in rushing with seven carries for 64 yards.<\/p>\n
Alexander is in his fourth season in Montreal and was a backup on the Alouettes 2023 Grey Cup championship team.<\/p>\n
Alexander has moved into the starting lineup since and has won a league record 13 starts to begin his career. He has endured a couple stints on the injured reserve list during that stretch.<\/p>\n
Montreal (12-8) will face Saskatchewan (13-6) in the Grey Cup at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Davis Alexander, the No. 2-ranked passer in Portland State history, will play for the Grey Cup next weekend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-276575","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\/276575","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=276575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}