starting in place of James Letcher<\/a>\u00a0who has been placed on the six-game injured list, returned a punt 101 yards up the sideline for a touchdown to put Saskatchewan up 20-13.<\/p>\nLauther added a field goal for Ottawa to make it 20-16 before Harris led the Roughriders on another touchdown drive as the quarterback put together an eight-play, 70-yard drive capped off with a 23-yard touchdown pass to KeeSean Johnson to put Saskatchewan up 27-16 through three quarters.<\/p>\n
Maier immediately responded for the Redblacks as he hit Justin Hardy for a pair of first downs before a deep throw to Eugene Lewis to the one-yard line. From there, short-yardage QB Bryson Barnes snuck into the end zone for the touchdown to make it a 27-22 game after a failed two-point convert attempt.<\/p>\n
As time ticked down in the fourth quarter, Maier put together a drive with first-down throws to Hardy, Pimpleton and Lewis before Roughriders safety Jaxon Ford stopped Barnes on third-and-one quarterback sneak that resulted in a turnover of downs on Saskatchewan\u2019s 16-yard line with 2:37 left.<\/p>\n
Harris then hit Emilus for a 27-yard gain before backup quarterback Tommy Stevens came into the game and picked a pair of first downs along the ground to run out the clock.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know what it is about this place, it\u2019s hard to play (at TD Place),\u201d Roughriders head coach Corey Mace told CKRM after the game. \u201cWeird stuff happens.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut what I thought is, when we needed a side of the ball to make a play, whether it was the defence with a two-point convert that we needed a stop there, whether it was Mathew Sexton taking one 100 to the house, big catch obviously at the end there from Sam, KeeSean had a great game, and then Tommy comes in there and closes the game out.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe responded when we needed to. As always, tons of (stuff) to look at to get better at.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harris ended the game having completed 18 of 31 passes for 243 yards with two touchdowns and one interception. Maier was 23 of 30 for 259 yards and one touchdown.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s an ugly win,\u201d Harris told CKRM after the game. \u201cOffensively, I think it\u2019s the worst we\u2019ve played this year, but we were able to make some big plays when we needed them, and that\u2019s kind of the most important thing, is being able to respond to adversity and being down 10-0 early.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were able to respond and climb out of the hole and be able to get a win. Complimentary football, team win, but was proud of us in terms of being able to make some plays when we need them offensively.\u201d<\/p>\n
Johnson was Saskatchewan\u2019s leading receiver with 137 yards and a touchdown on nine catches. Hardy led the way with 92 yards on five receptions for the Redblacks.<\/p>\n
Along the ground, rookie Quali Conley recorded 57 yards on 12 carries in his second straight start filling in for the injured A.J. Ouellette. Saskatchewan\u2019s defence held Ottawa\u2019s Greg Bell to 45 yards on nine carries.<\/p>\n
Defensively, Roughriders linebacker Jameer Thurman had five tackles and a sack while Josh Woods and Antoine Brooks each had seven tackles.<\/p>\n
Saskatchewan will now get set to host the Hamilton Tiger-Cats next Sunday at 5 p.m. at Mosaic Stadium in Week 6 of the CFL season. The Tiger-Cats (2-1) host the Winnipeg Blue Bombers this Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a little bit longer of a week this week to spend time getting to know what they\u2019ve got going on,\u201d Mace said of upcoming preparations for Hamilton. \u201cObviously, they\u2019ve got an explosive offence, they\u2019ve got some pieces coming back on defence, they\u2019re well coached.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to be another tough battle.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saskatchewan Roughriders got contributions from all three phases in a bounceback win on Friday night. Quarterback Trevor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[276175,49,48,521,522,276177,276178,158032,520,276176,82],"class_list":["post-779891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-276175","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-category-cfl","tag-category-saskatchewan-roughriders","tag-category-sports","tag-cfl","tag-leader-post","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779891","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=779891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}