CALGARY \u2014 The first game of a Saturday doubleheader was also the second half of a home-and-home between the Calgary Stampeders and Montreal Alouettes, in which Montreal came out on top 38-32 at McMahon Stadium.<\/p>\n
The win marked Montreal\u2019s third straight win and second straight over the Stampeders, while Alouettes quarterback Davis Alexander made history. The 27-year-old set the record for the most consecutive pass attempts without an interception (324), passing former Saskatchewan Roughriders pivot Darian Durant.<\/p>\n
The first half was all Alouettes, and the first quarter can be classified as the Travis Theis quarter. Montreal established the run early, as the 25-year-old rumbled over multiple Calgary defenders in the frame, while also scoring a 16-yard touchdown to help give Montreal an early 8-0 lead.<\/p>\n
That score held until the final play of the first frame, when Alexander dropped a ball into the returning Cole Spieker<\/a>\u2018s hands in the corner of the end zone to extend the Als\u2019 lead to 15-0.<\/p>\n Montreal\u2019s scoring continued in the second quarter, as Alexander and Tyler Snead connected to extend Montreal\u2019s lead even further. It took all the way to the final minute of the first half for Calgary to break their goose egg on the scoreboard, as Jude McAtamney\u2019s 32-yard kick gave the Stamps their first points of the game and trailed 22-3 after 30 minutes.<\/p>\n The Stampeders brought that momentum over into the second half, and thanks to a heavy workload from Dedrick Mills<\/a>, who capped of the nearly six-minute drive with a touchdown, Calgary\u2019s march back into the game began.<\/p>\n A history making and surgical drive by Alexander and the Alouettes, capped off by Dustin Crum<\/a>\u2018s one-yard plunge, restored Montreal\u2019s lead to 29-11 after three quarters. That drive was when Alexander set the record for the most consecutive pass attempts without an interception.<\/p>\n But Calgary came out firing in the fourth.<\/p>\n The Stampeders struck quickly to begin the final frame to cut the lead to 11, then again after an Alouettes field goal to make it a seven-point game, all before forcing a turnover on downs and scoring quickly once again to tie the game at the three minute warning.<\/p>\n As we\u2019ve seen time and time again, however, a strong Alouettes drive led by Alexander that began at their own five-yard line ended in a touchdown, sealing the deal for Montreal despite a strong comeback attempt by Calgary.<\/p>\n RELATED \u00a0<\/p>\n SCORING PLAYS<\/p>\n Travis Theis 16-yard touchdown run (11:18, Q1) | MTL 8, CGY 0 NEXT UP<\/p>\n For the Stampeders, they\u2019ll leave McMahon Stadium and hit the road for the next three weeks. They\u2019ll start their eastern swing by heading to Manitoba to take on the Winnipeg Blue Bombers,\u00a0 before hitting Ontario to matchup with both the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in Week 9 and the Toronto Argonauts in Week 10.<\/p>\n For the Alouettes, they\u2019ll return home for Week 8 and play host to the Tiger-Cats before a slight road trip to TD Field to take on the Ottawa REDBLACKS in Week 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CALGARY \u2014 The first game of a Saturday doubleheader was also the second half of a home-and-home between…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-811133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811133","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=811133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u00bb Depth Charts:\u00a0MTL<\/a> | CGY<\/a>
\u00bb\u00a0Game Notes: Alouettes at Stampeders<\/a>
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\nDavis Alexander 18-yard touchdown pass to Cole Spieker<\/a> (0:00 Q1) | MTL 15, CGY 0
\nDavis Alexander 25-yard touchdown pass to Tyler Snead (10:46, Q2) | MTL 22, CGY 0
\nJude McAtamney 32-year-old field goal (00:26, Q2) | MTL 22, CGY 3
\nDedrick Mills<\/a> three-yard touchdown run (09:25, Q3) | MTL 22, CGY 11
\nDustin Crum<\/a> one-yard touchdown run (02:21, Q3) | MTL 29, CGY 11
\nVernon Adams Jr. 15-yard touchdown pass to Erik Brooks (14:47, Q4) | MTL 29, CGY 18
\nJose Maltos Diaz 35-year-old field goal (07:09, Q4) | MTL 32, CGY 18
\nVernon Adams Jr. 5-yard touchdown pass to Jalen Philpot (04:48, Q4) | MTL 32, CGY 25
\nVernon Adams Jr. 15-yard touchdown pass to Dedrick Mills<\/a> (03:03, Q4) | MTL 32, CGY 32
\nDavis Alexander 27-yard touchdown pass to Kaseem Ferdinand (01:04, Q4) | MTL 38, CGY 32<\/p>\n