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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tB.C. Lions’ Stanley Berryhill (83) fails to make the catch as the ball passes through his hands as Montreal Alouettes’ Darnell Sankey (1) defends and Geoffrey Cantin-Arku (9) and Ciante Evans (25) watch during the first half of a CFL football game, in Vancouver, on Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Darryl Dyck<\/p>\n
Head coach Jason Maas said the quarterback will miss next week\u2019s game against the Toronto Argonauts in Montreal, but his long-term prognosis is less clear.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was just unfortunate. I feel bad for Caleb,\u201d he said. \u201cHe\u2019s worked hard to get back from injury, a long, hard road to get back and then have another injury with an opportunity to start and play. Just devastating.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Als\u2019 quarterback room has been plagued by injuries this season, with No. 1 Davis Alexander suffering a hamstring injury and backup McLeod Bethel-Thompson hurting his elbow. Both are on the six-game injured list.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Saturday marked Evans\u2019 first start in more than a year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Seeing a player go down when he had an opportunity to prove himself is hard, said Lions quarterback Nathan Rourke.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou never want to see anybody hurt, quarterback or not. You understand the work and the preparation it takes to get to each game, all throughout the week, all the work they put in over the off-season,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a guy that has been a backup quarterback at times in my career, I know that the opportunities you get are minimal. Sometimes the windows are very, very tight. And so you want to be able to make the most of your opportunity. And so it\u2019s kind of heartbreaking, obviously, when that\u2019s cut short by something that\u2019s really out of your control.\u201d<\/p>\n
Evans connected on 3-of-4 passing attempts for 32 yards and was sacked three times before leaving the game.<\/p>\n
He was replaced by James Morgan who amassed 211 passing yards, making good on 20 of his 33 attempts with one touchdown \u2014 the first of his CFL career \u2014 and one interception.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought he did a tremendous job,\u201d Maas said of Morgan\u2019s showing.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe hasn\u2019t got a whole lot of reps in the last eight, nine weeks. This week, we didn\u2019t practise a lot anyway, so he had no reps. And so for him to go out and do what he did offensively, I commend him, because he prepares like a starter. And he obviously proved it tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tyler Snead drove in the lone major for Montreal and kicker Jose Maltos Diaz made four field goals, including one for 41 yards, as the Als (5-5) dropped a third straight game.<\/p>\n
Rourke excelled, putting up 382 passing yards with four touchdowns and one interception.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Receiver Keon Hatcher chalked up two TDs for B.C. (5-5), while Justin McInnis and Stanley Berryhill III had one apiece. Sean Whyte booted three field goals, with his longest sailing 46 yards through the uprights.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Lions got on the board early, thanks to a 23-yard field goal from Whyte, but struggled to capitalize in the red zone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there was a lot of frustration, because we know what we\u2019re capable of, and we know that we\u2019re dancing around that kind of ceiling and we\u2019re really close to getting there, to our full potential. We\u2019re just a couple things away,\u201d Rourke said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
B.C. capped the first half with the Canadian quarterback dishing off to McInnis for a five-yard major and the home side\u2019s offence kept on rolling in the third quarter.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just knew that there\u2019s nothing special that was going to come,\u201d Rourke said. \u201cWe knew what we had to do. It was just going down and executing and doing the little, easy things, simple things right, and doing them well. And we did that more in the second half, which is good.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hatcher\u2019s first touchdown of the night came midway through the third when Rourke found him just inside the end zone for an eight-yard toss.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They teamed up once again in the fourth after Rourke hit Ayden Eberhardt with a 49-yard bomb to give B.C. a first down at Montreal\u2019s 21-yard line.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hatcher followed up by reeling in an 18-yard pass from the QB, then evaded a tackle to step into the end zone. Another convert from Whyte gave the Lions a 30-12 lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Lions weren\u2019t done yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With nearly six minutes left on the game clock, Rourke sent an arching 29-yard toss to Berryhill in the end zone for another major.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Penalties proved to be a problem for B.C. across the game. The Lions were called 12 times for a total of 137 yards \u2014 something that head coach Buck Pierce said was \u201cabsolutely\u201d a concern as his team fights to nab a playoff berth.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFor us to get where we want to go, that\u2019s got to be cleaned up. That\u2019s got to be cleaned up as soon as possible,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to make sure we\u2019re putting the focus on where it needs to be and that\u2019s playing much cleaner than we have in the previous number of weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n
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An announced crowd of 23,318 people took in the game at B.C. Place, including Florida Panthers forward Sam Reinhart, who was shown on the big screen wearing a Lions hat. \u2026 B.C. announced that former linebacker Solomon Elimimian will have his No. 56 retired on Oct. 4 when the Lions host the Calgary Stampeders.<\/p>\n
UP NEXT<\/p>\n
Alouettes: Host the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (5-4) on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Lions: Visit the Toronto Argonauts (2-8) on Saturday, Aug. 23.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 16, 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER \u2013 The Montreal Alouettes will turn to yet another quarterback next week after Caleb Evans was sidelined…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-75622","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\/75622","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=75622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}