{"id":287965,"date":"2025-11-17T02:34:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T02:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/287965\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T02:34:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T02:34:23","slug":"saskatchewan-roughriders-lead-montreal-alouettes-at-halftime-in-112th-grey-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/287965\/","title":{"rendered":"Saskatchewan Roughriders lead Montreal Alouettes at halftime in 112th Grey Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Saskatchewan Roughriders lead the Montreal Alouettes 15-7 at halftime in the 112th Grey Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It was a defensive battle in the first quarter. After an early interception by Saskatchewan\u2019s Marcus Sayles, the Alouettes nearly returned the favour with a pick themselves. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Saskatchewan ended up punting, however, as a 69-yard boot by Jesse Mirco dribbled into the endzone to give the Riders the early 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Later in the first quarter, Montreal pivot Davis Alexander hooked up with Canadian Tyson Philpot for a 37-yard gain to get into Saskatchewan territory, before former Riders quarterback Shea Patterson plunged into the endzone to give the Alouettes the 7-1 lead heading into the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">To begin the second frame, a Roughriders drive led to a one-yard sneak themselves, as Tommy Stevens dove in for a touchdown to give the Green and White an 8-7 lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Roughriders got another quick stop before a long drive resulted in an A.J. Ouellette five-yard touchdown, extending Saskatchewan\u2019s lead to 15-7 with just under three minutes remaining in the half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Alexander and the Alouettes got close to putting up points before the break, but a second interception thrown by Alexander &#8212; this time grabbed by Rolan Milligan Jr. &#8212; kept the score 15-7 at halftime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saskatchewan Roughriders lead the Montreal Alouettes 15-7 at halftime in the 112th Grey Cup. It was a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[712,49,48,521,522,520,79863,77833,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-287965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-canadian-football-league","12":"tag-canadianfootballleague","13":"tag-cfl","14":"tag-montreal-alouettes-sports-football-team-team-genius-sports-86680","15":"tag-saskatchewan-roughriders-sports-football-team-team-genius-sports-106752","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287965","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=287965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}