WINNIPEG – Sergio Castillo was grateful he got a second chance.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Blue Bombers kicker made up for an earlier miss in a big way when he booted a 47-yard field goal as time expired to lift Winnipeg to a 30-27 victory over the Ottawa Redblacks on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Winnipeg was ahead 17-0 after the first quarter, 20-3 at halftime and held a 27-10 lead 21 seconds into the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought we were done and relaxed,\u201d Castillo said. \u201cAnd you know, props to Ottawa for coming back. That\u2019s resilience right there, but resilience on our team, too.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo give me another shot after the miss, I\u2019m thankful for them.\u201d<\/p>\n
After the Blue Bombers went ahead on Brady Oliveira\u2019s four-yard touchdown run early in the fourth quarter, the Redblacks started surging with 17 unanswered points.\u00a0<\/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
When Castillo went wide on a 57-yard field-goal attempt, Pimpleton returned the ball 117 yards for a TD with 53 seconds remaining to make it 27-27.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was 100 per cent confident that ball was going in,\u201d Castillo said. \u201cI just aimed wrong. I aimed left centre rather than right centre. It was a beautiful draw, like I wish how my golf game was.\u201d<\/p>\n
Head coach Mike O\u2019Shea said he had no qualms about sending Castillo out for the 57-yarder. Last week, Castillo tied a CFL record for the longest field goal when he connected on a 63-yarder in a loss to Calgary.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is way harder to punt that distance than it is to kick the field goal from that distance,\u201d O\u2019Shea said. \u201cI think there is a reason why they always try the field goal instead of punting for the single.\u201d<\/p>\n
After Pimpleton\u2019s return, Winnipeg quarterback Zach Collaros was intercepted by King Ambers but Ottawa couldn\u2019t do anything with its possession.<\/p>\n
\u201cKind of poor execution on us,\u201d Crum said of the last series that included an initial short, incomplete pass. \u201cI think I could have done something different with the ball there on first down, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n
Starting at their own 43-yard line, Collaros rushed 17 yards and then hit Nic Demski for an 11-yard reception to help set up field position for Castillo\u2019s winner that moved Winnipeg\u2019s record to 5-4.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cJust relieved. Happy to win,\u201d Collaros said.<\/p>\n
It was the opposite of Winnipeg\u2019s fate last week, when Stampeders kicker Rene Paredes booted a 40-yard walk-off field goal in a 28-27 Calgary victory.<\/p>\n
And it was also the opposite of Ottawa\u2019s outcome last week, when it was down 21 points against the Toronto Argonauts before fighting back for a 46-42 victory.<\/p>\n
Redblacks head coach Bob Dyce was disappointed the team (3-7) started out slow again, but had praise for his players.<\/p>\n
\u201cI give these guys all the credit in the world for battling back the way they did,\u201d Dyce said.<\/p>\n
The Redblacks 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
\u201cWe won\u2019t know anything until we get some imaging,\u201d Dyce said of an update.\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. Crum was 11-of-17 passing for 125 yards with one TD and no interceptions. He also rushed four yards for a touchdown.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Collaros threw a TD pass to Jerreth Sterns and backup Chris Streveler plunged one yard over the goal line.<\/p>\n
Demski led all receivers with six catches for 128 yards.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Castillo was good on field goals from 53 and 39. Ward also booted a 43-yarder.\u00a0<\/p>\n
FOILED AGAIN<\/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
UP NEXT<\/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
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 14, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG – Sergio Castillo was grateful he got a second chance.\u00a0 The Blue Bombers kicker made up for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-71433","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\/71433","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=71433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}