Montreal’s ground game and a clean sheet from Davis Alexander were just enough to survive a furious Ottawa rally.<\/p>\n
The Montreal Alouettes<\/a> escaped with a 37\u201335 win over the Ottawa Redblacks<\/a> on Thursday night at Percival Molson Memorial Stadium, handing Ottawa its third straight loss to open the season. Montreal improves to 3-1 and sits second in the CFL standings<\/a>, while Ottawa falls to 0-3 and is running out of runway fast.<\/p>\n Box Score<\/p>\n See full player stats and game details<\/a><\/p>\n Game Highlights<\/p>\n Top PerformersMontreal Alouettes<\/p>\n Tyson Philpot<\/a> (WR) \u2014 12 rec, 198 yds, 0 TD<\/p>\n Davis Alexander<\/a> (QB) \u2014 22\/30, 345 yds, 2 TD, 0 INT<\/p>\n Stevie Scott III<\/a> (RB) \u2014 10 att, 65 yds; 2 rec, 10 yds<\/p>\n Tyler Snead<\/a> (WR) \u2014 6 rec, 79 yds, 1 TD; 1 rush, 22 yds<\/p>\n Dustin Crum<\/a> (QB) \u2014 4 rush att, 3 yds, 2 TD<\/p>\n Wesley Sutton<\/a> (DB) \u2014 4 tackles, 1 INT<\/p>\n Ottawa RedblacksTeam Stats<\/p>\n Stat<\/p>\n Ottawa<\/p>\n Montreal<\/p>\n Total Yards<\/p>\n 374<\/p>\n 469<\/p>\n Passing<\/p>\n 27\/38, 336 yds, 3 TD<\/p>\n 22\/30, 345 yds, 2 TD<\/p>\n Rushing<\/p>\n 11 att, 38 yds, 0 TD<\/p>\n 24 att, 124 yds, 3 TD<\/p>\n Turnovers<\/p>\n 1<\/p>\n 0<\/p>\n Quick Hits<\/p>\n Tyson Philpot was absolutely unstoppable through the air \u2014 12 catches for 198 yards is the kind of stat line that makes defensive coordinators lose sleep, even without a touchdown to show for it.<\/p>\n Montreal ran the ball 24 times for 124 yards and three rushing touchdowns \u2014 Ottawa simply couldn’t stop the run, and that’s what won this game.<\/p>\n Ottawa outscored Montreal 29\u201316 in the second half and nearly pulled off the comeback, but digging a 21-point hole in the first half proved too much to overcome.<\/p>\n Jake Maier threw for 336 yards and 3 TDs but the early interception and Ottawa’s inability to run the ball (38 yards on 11 carries) ultimately hurt the Redblacks when it mattered most.<\/p>\n What’s Next<\/p>\n Montreal Alouettes (3-1) \u2014 No Week 5 game scheduled; bye week.<\/p>\n Ottawa Redblacks (0-3) \u2014 Host the Saskatchewan Roughriders<\/a>, Thursday July 3rd.<\/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":"Montreal’s ground game and a clean sheet from Davis Alexander were just enough to survive a furious Ottawa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-769206","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\/769206","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=769206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}