WINNIPEG \u2014\u00a0Sergio Castillo made up for an earlier miss in a big way when he booted a 47-yard field as time expired to lift the Winnipeg Blue Bombers to a 30-27 victory over the Ottawa Redblacks on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The Redblacks were down 27-10 just 21 seconds into the fourth quarter when they began their comeback.<\/p>\n
Lewis Ward was good on a 46-yard field goal at 4:39, Justin Hardy caught an eight-yard touchdown pass eight minutes later and then receiver Kalil Pimpleton had the 10th consecutive sold-out crowd at Princess Auto Stadium groaning.<\/p>\n
After Castillo went wide on a 57-yard field-attempt, Pimpleton returned the ball 117 yards for the touchdown with 53 seconds remaining to make it 27-27.<\/p>\n
Winnipeg quarterback Zach Collaros was intercepted on the team\u2019s next possession, but Ottawa couldn\u2019t do anything with its turn.<\/p>\n
Collaros then rushed 17 yards in the next series to help set up field position for Castillo\u2019s winner that moved Winnipeg\u2019s record to 5-4.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Redblacks (3-7) had their two-game win streak snapped and also lost starting quarterback Dru Brown to injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brown was stopped with a diving tackle midway through the third quarter. He limped off the field, went into the medical tent and then watched the rest of the game from the sidelines.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Collaros completed 24 of 34 pass attempts for 298 yards with one TD toss and two interceptions in front of 32,343 fans.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brown was 12-of-21 passing for 166 yards and one pick when he left the game. Dustin Crum was 11-of-17 passing for 125 yards with one TD and no interceptions in relief. He also rushed four yards for a touchdown.<\/p>\n
Collaros threw a touchdown pass to Jerreth Sterns, backup Chris Streveler plunged one yard over the goal line and running back Brady Oliveira rushed four yards into the end zone.<\/p>\n
Bombers slotback Nic Demski led all receivers with six catches for 128 yards.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Castillo was good on field goals from 53 and 39.<\/p>\n
Ward also booted a field goal from 43 yards out.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Winnipeg led 10-0 after the first quarter, 20-3 at halftime and 27-10 just 21 seconds into the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
The Bombers got backed up to their own 24-yard line because of a facemask call on their first possession, but got down far enough to cap the drive with Castillo\u2019s 53-yard field goal at 3:24.<\/p>\n
The Redblacks responded by getting close to the end zone, but were stopped from the one-, two- and then one-yard line and turned the ball over.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Winnipeg didn\u2019t capitalize, but Sterns put the Bombers ahead 10-0 as time expired on the first quarter when he caught a 22-yard pass in the corner of the end zone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Bombers stretched their lead to 17-0 with Streveler\u2019s goal-line sneak four minutes into the second.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ward got the Redblacks on the board with a 43-yarder at 6:59.<\/p>\n
Bombers defensive back Evan Holm intercepted a Brown pass, leading to Castillo\u2019s 39-yarder to make it 20-3 at 10:29.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Redblacks defensive back C.J. Coldon intercepted Collaros with 21 seconds left in the first half, but couldn\u2019t come away with any points.<\/p>\n
Ottawa opened the second half with a 14-play, 76-yard drive that ended with Crum\u2019s four-yard TD run at 8:13.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brown had tossed a pass to William Stanbuck on the previous play and then limped to the sidelines after getting up from the turf. \u00a0<\/p>\n
The Bombers have won 10 of their past 13 games against Ottawa and four consecutive at home. The Redblacks\u2019 last victory in Winnipeg was Aug. 17, 2018.<\/p>\n
Bombers: Travel to Montreal to play the Alouettes on Aug. 21.<\/p>\n
Redblacks: Host the Edmonton Elks on Aug. 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG \u2014\u00a0Sergio Castillo made up for an earlier miss in a big way when he booted a 47-yard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-70732","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\/70732","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=70732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}