WINNIPEG – The Calgary Stampeders continued their dominance of the CFL on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Quarterback Vernon Adams Jr. completed 16 of 24 passes for 267 yards and three touchdowns to lead the Stampeders to a 41-20 victory over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.<\/p>\n
Calgary improved to 5-1 and sits alone atop the CFL’s West Division. Winnipeg dropped to 3-2 before a sold-out crowd of 32,343 at Princess Auto Stadium, an eighth straight full house.<\/p>\n
Vernon completed TD throws of 37 and 42 yards to Damien Alford before finding Dominique Rhymes with a three-yard toss.<\/p>\n
Calgary’s defence also picked off Winnipeg’s quarterbacks four times, with Damon Webb intercepting a Chris Streveler pass and returning it 15 yards for a touchdown. The convert gave the Stamps a 38-13 lead early in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
It was the second time the Stamps stomped Winnipeg in the last three weeks. They beat the Bombers 37-16 in Calgary three weeks ago.<\/p>\n
Backup quarterback Quincy Vaughn also scored on a one-yard touchdown run.<\/p>\n
Rene Parades kicked field goals of 32 and 37 yards, and converted all seven majors.<\/p>\n
Winnipeg quarterback Zach Collaros exited in the second quarter with what’s believed to be a concussion after falling to the field from a hit.<\/p>\n
He completed eight of 11 passes for 151 yards and a four-yard touchdown to Nic Demski, with two interceptions, before Streveler took over.<\/p>\n
Streveler completed 15 of 24 passes for 128 yards and one late eight-yard touchdown to Kody Case, with two picks. Sergio Castillo kicked field goals of 46 and 58 yards and converted both TDs.<\/p>\n
Calgary had upped the score to 31-13 when Adams completed a one-yard TD toss to Rhymes early in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
After Adrian Greene picked off a Streveler pass near his own end zone to snuff out a promising Bombers drive, the Stamps marched down the field and Adams hit a wide-open Alford for a 42-yard touchdown. The Parades convert gave Calgary a 24-13 lead heading into the final quarter.<\/p>\n
The Stamps led 17-13 at halftime.<\/p>\n
Calgary had retaken the lead when Adams connected on a 37-yard touchdown pass to Alford.<\/p>\n
Winnipeg grabbed a 13-10 lead when Collaros capped off a 70-yard drive with a four-yard TD toss to Demski.<\/p>\n
The Stamps upped the score to 10-6 with a 32-yard field goal by Parades early in the second.<\/p>\n
Castillo had connected on a 58-yard field goal to pull Winnipeg within 7-6 following Calgary\u2019s touchdown.<\/p>\n
The Stamps had scored on their first drive, marching 70 yards on seven plays, capped off with a one-yard touchdown run by Vaughn. A Parades convert gave the Stamps a 7-3 lead.<\/p>\n
The Bombers opened the scoring on their first possession. After a sack negated a promising drive, Castillo booted a 46-yard field goal.<\/p>\n
WELCOME BACK<\/p>\n
Fans welcomed Bombers legend Milt Stegall back with a standing ovation before the game. Stegall, who was on the sidelines, returned to the TSN panel this weekend for the first time since the sudden death of his son, Chase.<\/p>\n
UP NEXT<\/p>\n
The Bombers travel to Toronto to take on the Argos in a Grey Cup rematch on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The Stampeders return to Calgary to host the Montreal Alouettes on Thursday.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published on July 18, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG – The Calgary Stampeders continued their dominance of the CFL on Friday night. Quarterback Vernon Adams Jr.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-7180","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\/7180","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=7180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}