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<\/p>\nHamilton was flagged 11 times for 144 yards in penalties. Toronto had seven penalties for 73 yards.<\/p>\n
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Chad Kelly made his first start for Toronto since suffering a leg injury in the \u201924 East Division final that sidelined him the entire 2025 campaign. The CFL\u2019s outstanding player in 2023 completed three-of-seven passes for 29 yards and ran for twice for 24 yards.<\/p>\n
Veteran Bo Levi Mitchell, the East Division\u2019s outstanding player the last two seasons, started for Hamilton. Mitchell completed all three passes he attempted for 50 yards.<\/p>\n
Jake Dolegala completed five-of-14 passes for 61 yards with an interceptions while Canadian Tre Ford was two-of-10 passing for 14 yard and added 17 yards rushing on two carries.<\/p>\n
The two teams square off again Friday night in Guelph, Ont., in their final pre-season contests. Hamilton will open the \u201926 regular season on June 4 hosting the Montreal Alouettes.<\/p>\n
Toronto opens its season June 12 in Montreal.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in the CFL on Saturday:<\/p>\n
ELKS 34 LIONS 16<\/p>\n
Quarterbacks Taylor Powell, Zach Zebrowski and Cole Snyder all threw touchdown passes as the Edmonton Elks whipped the B.C. Lions 34-16 in Langford, B.C.<\/p>\n
Powell was 13 of 14 in the passing department for 160 yards.<\/p>\n
Rushawn Baker had eight carries for 47 yards, receiver Carter Kettyle had two catches for 65 yards and a touchdown, and kicker Jesus Gomez was two-for-two on field goals. His longest was from 30 yards out.<\/p>\n
Lions quarterback Chase Brice was eight-for-10 passing for 77 yards and one touchdown. Emani Bailey rushed for 54 yards on 10 carries, and receiver Jayden Williams had three catches for 53 yards.<\/p>\n
Mark McNamee was three-for-three in the field goal department for the Lions, with his longest from 30 yards out.<\/p>\n
The Elks led 17-10 at halftime and 24-10 heading into the final quarter.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 23, 2026.<\/p>\n
The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hamilton was flagged 11 times for 144 yards in penalties. Toronto had seven penalties for 73 yards. Chad…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[879,49,48,521,522,2467,520,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-689727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-cfl","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689727","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=689727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}