Davis Alexander came up clutch in overtime, lifting Montreal past Hamilton 30-27 in a Week 1 barnburner.<\/p>\n
The Montreal Alouettes<\/a> escaped Hamilton Stadium with a 30-27 overtime victory over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats<\/a> on Thursday night, airing on TSN. Montreal moves to 1-0 on the young season while Hamilton drops to 0-1 \u2014 a tough pill to swallow after leading by seven in the first quarter and holding a three-point edge heading into the fourth. Check the CFL Standings<\/a> to see where things sit after Week 1.<\/p>\n Box Score<\/p>\n See full player stats and game details<\/a><\/p>\n Game Highlights<\/p>\n Top PerformersMontreal AlouettesHamilton Tiger-CatsTeam Stats<\/p>\n Stat<\/p>\n Montreal<\/p>\n Hamilton<\/p>\n Total Yards<\/p>\n 353<\/p>\n 342<\/p>\n Passing<\/p>\n 26\/38, 336 yds, 2 TD<\/p>\n 34\/39, 307 yds, 0 TD<\/p>\n Rushing<\/p>\n 6 att, 17 yds, 0 TD<\/p>\n 16 att, 35 yds, 3 TD<\/p>\n Turnovers<\/p>\n 1<\/p>\n 1<\/p>\n Quick Hits<\/p>\n Hamilton’s ground game punched in all three rushing touchdowns \u2014 but the passing game couldn’t find the end zone once, a brutal combination that cost them the game.<\/p>\n Tyler Snead<\/a> torched Hamilton’s secondary for 163 receiving yards on 9 catches \u2014 the clear difference-maker in this one.<\/p>\n Bo Levi Mitchell<\/a> completed 34 of 39 passes (87.2%) but finished with zero passing touchdowns \u2014 all that efficiency and nothing to show for it in the end zone through the air.<\/p>\n Robert Kennedy<\/a> hauled in the lone interception of the game for Montreal, a key defensive play that helped flip the script late.<\/p>\n What’s Next<\/p>\n Montreal Alouettes (1-0) \u2014 Host the Toronto Argonauts, Friday June 13 (23:00 UTC)<\/p>\n Hamilton Tiger-Cats (0-1) \u2014 Travel to Winnipeg to face the Blue Bombers, Friday June 12 (00:30 UTC)<\/p>\n CFL Standings<\/a> | Full Schedule<\/a> | League Leaders<\/a><\/p>\n What’s your takeaway? Drop your thoughts in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Davis Alexander came up clutch in overtime, lifting Montreal past Hamilton 30-27 in a Week 1 barnburner. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-716265","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\/716265","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=716265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}