{"id":28508,"date":"2025-07-28T04:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T04:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/28508\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T04:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T04:06:07","slug":"3-stats-that-defined-hamiltons-week-8-win-over-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/28508\/","title":{"rendered":"3 stats that defined Hamilton\u2019s Week 8 win over BC"},"content":{"rendered":"

VANCOUVER \u2013 It was always going to be a shootout between the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and the BC Lions, and the two teams delivered a fight until the clock ran out as the Tiger-Cats were able to overcome being behind by 10 points to secure their fifth victory in a row.<\/p>\n

Receiver Kiondre Smith<\/a> was the player to watch as the Lions tried to lock down Kenny Lawler<\/a> and Tim White<\/a>, while Bo Levi Mitchell<\/a> put on a passing masterclass with over 300 yards and three touchdowns in the win.<\/p>\n

CFL.ca brings you three key stats from the Hamilton Tiger-Cats\u2019 win over the BC Lions.<\/p>\n

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389 \u2013 BO LEVI MITCHELL PASSING YARDS<\/p>\n

For a fourth time this season, Mitchell recorded over 300 yards in a game, as he tallied three touchdowns and an interception in the victory, his fourth multi-touchdown game of the season. He completed 34 of 41 attempts and averaged nearly a down with 9.5 yards per completion.<\/p>\n

389 yards is also a season-high for Mitchell, surpassing the previous high of 336 yards by 53. After week 7 Mitchell was already the CFL\u2019s passing yards leader with 1,812 passing yards, and now has tallied over 2,000 yards on the season.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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900+ \u2013 YARDS OF OFFENCE COMBINED<\/p>\n

Both teams recorded over 400 yards of offence and each quarterback threw for 0ver 280 yards in a back-and-forth game which saw both offences being utilized in all areas, whether it was multiple receivers making massive catches or running backs finding gaps to sprint into the end zone.<\/p>\n

Both teams had a receiver with at least 110 yards recorded, and Hamilton had three receivers with over 60 yards while BC had three with at least 40 yards as well as a running back with over 100 yards in the win. At least two different players scored a touchdown for each team and both teams averaged at least eight yards of offence per play.<\/p>\n

2 \u2013 KIONDRE SMITH TOUCHDOWNS<\/p>\n

With Lawler being guarded heavily by Garry Peters<\/a>, another receiver needed to step up big time for the Tiger-Cats, but luckily,they have many solid options. White, who has had back-to-back games with over 85 yards, hit the mark for a third game in a row as he tallied 86 yards, but it was Smith who made the biggest impact in the passing game against BC.<\/p>\n

Smith led all receivers with 138 yards and two touchdowns on 14 receptions, and averaged 9.9 yards per reception for the Tiger-Cats. After tallying 81 yards last week, his passed the 100-yard mark for the first time this season as well as recorded his first multi-touchdown game of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER \u2013 It was always going to be a shootout between the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and the BC Lions,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-28508","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\/28508","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=28508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}