A sold-out crowd at Mosaic Stadium on Saturday was treated to another dominating performance from the Saskatchewan Roughriders as the Green and White hammered the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 29-9.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Saskatchewan sits alone on top of the Canadian Football League (CFL) standings at 8-1. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Facing a heavy wind in the first quarter, the Roughriders had a slow start to the game as they trailed 6-1. On the other hand, Hamilton was unable to capitalize the wind advantage walking away from the first 15 minutes with only a pair of field goals. \u00a0<\/p>\n
With the wind behind their backs, the green and white went to work early in the second quarter as Quarterback Trevor Harris connected with Dohnte Meyers for a 58-yard bomb that moved Saskatchewan into the lead. \u00a0<\/p>\n
The Roughriders ended the half adding 10 points. Tommy Nield found the end zone for the second straight game. Then, after a Shane Ray sack, Brett Lauther kicked a 59-yard field goal to end the first half as the Saskatchewan led 19-6. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Joe Robustelli added to the Roughriders lead in the second half with the lone touchdown from either side with Saskatchewan ahead 26-6 heading into the final quarter.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Both teams traded field goals to round out the scoring.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hamilton Quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell entered the game as the leading candidate for Most Outstanding Player in the CFL but had a tough afternoon at Mosaic Stadium. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Saskatchewan\u2019s defence pressured the Hamilton QB into six sacks. Micah Johnson led the way with a pair. The Roughriders also recorded a pair of interceptions courtesy of Rolan Milligan and Tevaughn Campbell. \u00a0<\/p>\n
The green and white defence has not allowed a touchdown over their last two games.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This season, Mitchell has thrown five interceptions in total, with three of them in the two games against the Roughriders.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Harris likely pulled ahead of Mitchell in the race for the Most Outstanding Player in the CFL with Saturday\u2019s performance. He had 307 passing yards with 3 touchdowns and one interception. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Running back AJ Ouellette had a strong game with 117 all-purpose yards. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Keesean Johnson had 117 receiving yards with 8 receptions to lead Roughrider receivers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was a quiet afternoon for Hamilton\u2019s Kenny Lawler who only had 62 yards with 3 catches.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This week will be another tough test for Saskatchewan, as they head to Calgary on Saturday. \u00a0<\/p>\n
The Stampeders will be coming off their bye week. They trail Saskatchewan by four points for the top spot in the Western Division.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Saturday\u2019s matchup will be the last matchup in the 2025 regular season between the two clubs. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Calgary currently owns the tiebreaker between the two clubs with a 24-10 win on July 12. \u00a0<\/p>\n
The Roughriders need to beat the Stamps by 15 points in order to win the season series between the football clubs. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sold-out crowd at Mosaic Stadium on Saturday was treated to another dominating performance from the Saskatchewan Roughriders…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-79331","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\/79331","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=79331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}