MONTREAL \u2014 The Montreal Alouettes were able to hang on at home Sunday night from Percival Molson Stadium, taking down the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 31-18.<\/p>\n
The win marked the fourth straight for the Alouettes, who improved to a 6-1 record, tied for the league-best.<\/p>\n
Week 8 closed out with a physical battle, as both Montreal and Hamilton were popping pads and flying around from the onset. The very first two plays from scrimmage were all Travis Theis, who brings a physical presence himself, rumbling for 46 yards immediately, and finishing with a career-high 156 yards, to help set up a Jose Maltos Diaz field goal to give Montreal the early lead.<\/p>\n
It was a defensive first half, as a Terry Wilson plunge into the end zone on a one-yard sneak would be the only other offensive touchdown in the half. Hamilton\u2019s early points came on special teams, as a 100-yard punt return touchdown from the explosive Isaiah Wooden<\/a> put points on the board that the offence couldn\u2019t early.<\/p>\n The Alouettes outgained the Tiger-Cats 235-66 in net offence in half No.1, as Hamilton booted away four punts. Hamilton even turned Montreal over twice, including ending Davis Alexander<\/a>\u2018s consecutive pass attempts without an interception record at 356, but couldn\u2019t capitalize.<\/p>\n To start the second half, the script flipped, however, as a Tre Ford<\/a> to Kenny Lawler<\/a> 33-yard touchdown capped off a drive that saw Hamilton put up more net offence than they did in the entire first half, taking a 15-10 lead in the process.<\/p>\n Montreal answered right back in the offensive second half, as a second Wilson plunge capped off a drive sparked by a nice punt return by the Alouettes-debuting DeVonte Dedmon.<\/p>\n The point-filled third quarter continued as the lead changed once again following a Marc Liegghio<\/a> field goal, giving the Tiger-Cats the slight 18-17 lead heading into the final quarter.<\/p>\n The fourth quarter looked a lot like the first half, defensive and physical. No points were scored until the three-minute warning, with multiple turnovers and a blocked punt mixed in, before Maltoz Diaz gave the Alouettes the lead back.<\/p>\n Fittingly, Theis and the Alouettes were able to run the game out at the end with the 25-year-old scoring a late major for good measure.<\/p>\n RELATED<\/p>\n \u00bb 3 stats that defined Montreal\u2019s Week 8 win over Hamilton<\/a> \u00a0<\/p>\n SCORING PLAYS<\/p>\n Jose Maltos Diaz 17-yard field goal (11:43, Q1) | MTL 3, HAM 0 NEXT UP\u00a0<\/p>\n Montreal will hit the road for a short trip to the nation\u2019s capital to battle the winless Ottawa REDBLACKS in Week 9, before returning back home in Week 10 to host the CFL\u2019s best Edmonton Elks.<\/p>\n For the Tiger-Cats, they return home in Week 9 to play host to the Calgary Stampeders in a cross-division matchup, before hitting the road once again and travelling all the way to the West Coast to battle the BC Lions in Week 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2014 The Montreal Alouettes were able to hang on at home Sunday night from Percival Molson Stadium,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":828433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-828432","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\/828432","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=828432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u00bb Depth Charts: HAM<\/a> | MTL<\/a>
\u00bb\u00a0Game Notes: Tiger-Cats at Alouettes<\/a>
\u00bb Montreal, Hamilton by the numbers<\/a>
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\nIsaiah Wooden<\/a> 100-yard punt return touchdown (05:20, Q1) | HAM 7, MTL 3
\nTerry Wilson one-yard touchdown run (11:26, Q2) | MTL 10, HAM 7
\nMitch McCarthy<\/a> 76-yard punt single (07:55, Q2)\u00a0| MTL 10, HAM 8
\nTre Ford<\/a> 33-yard touchdown pass to Kenny Lawler<\/a>\u00a0(10:54, Q3) | HAM 15, MTL 10
\nTerry Wilson one-yard touchdown run (08:19, Q3) | MTL 17, HAM 15
\nMarc Liegghio<\/a> 46-yard field goal (02:01, Q3) | HAM 18, MTL 17
\nJose Maltos Diaz 35-yard field goal (02:56, Q4) | MTL 20, HAM 18
\nJose Maltos Diaz 46-yard field goal (02:00, Q4) | MTL 23, HAM 18
\nTravis Theis eight-yard touchdown run (00:24, Q4) | MTL 31, HAM 18<\/p>\n