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<\/p>\n\u201cAt the end of the day, it would be terrible for us to peak early in the season and suck at the end. I think (gaining) momentum each week, that\u2019s the recipe.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Calgary (4-4) earned a second straight road win after last week\u2019s 52-30 victory over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. The Stampeders visit the Toronto Argonauts (3-4) on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been stressing getting the ball and I know as a defensive unit they take a lot of pride in improving and trying each game to be better,\u201d said Dave Dickenson, Calgary\u2019s head coach\/GM. \u201cWe\u2019re getting stouter against the run, we\u2019re starting to harass quarterbacks, we are creating turnovers and tackling the ball.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne (defensive) touchdown is nice, but two is huge.\u201d<\/p>\n
Calgary stater Vernon Adams Jr. finished 18-of-25 passing for 252 yards and a TD, his league-leading 21st of the season. And he managed to keep his interception-free streak this season alive, but needed a Hamilton penalty to nullify a pick in the game.<\/p>\n
Calgary cemented the win by outscoring Hamilton 20-1 in the fourth quarter. The Ticats have been outscored 70-1 in the final quarter over their last five games.<\/p>\n
Quincy Vaughn\u2019s four-yard TD run at 12:04 put Calgary ahead 37-20 before Moncrief registered his interception return at 12:35.<\/p>\n
Jude McAtamney\u2019s 48-yard field goal at 2:04 put Calgary ahead 27-19, then he added a 29-yard boot at 7:10 after Mitch McCarthy boomed a 77-yard punt single at 3:40.<\/p>\n
Hamilton (3-5) suffered a second straight loss and fourth in five games. Since starter Bo Levi Mitchell suffered a serious ankle injury in a 14-13 loss to Winnipeg on July 5, the Ticats\u2019 lone win was a 24-23 decision against Toronto on July 18 when Lirim Hajrullahu missed a game-ending 31-yard field goal attempt.<\/p>\n
Over that span, Jake Dolegala and Canadian Tre Ford have taken snaps for the Ticats. Ford made his third start Saturday but was replaced by rookie Harrison Frost late in the first half.<\/p>\n
Frost finished nine-of-20 passing for 165 yards with a touchdown and interception and also lost a fumble. Ford, of Niagara Falls, Ont., was four-of-10 passing for 58 yards and ran four times for 52 yards but fumbled as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re trying to figure out who our quarterback is going to be so that\u2019s always a concerning thing,\u201d said Hamilton head coach Scott Milanovich. \u201cThe sack-fumble on Frosty, I called the play wrong, that\u2019s on me (but) we still have to protect better, obviously.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought we played reasonably well early in the game but we weren\u2019t able to finish drives for a number of reasons. We turned it over once and instead of playing with the lead we were playing from behind.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tyreik McAllister, another former Ticat, and Dejon Brissett scored Calgary\u2019s other touchdowns. McAtamney kicked three field goals and five converts.<\/p>\n
Kenny Lawler scored Hamilton\u2019s touchdown. Marc Liegghio kicked four field goals and a convert.<\/p>\n
Liegghio\u2019s 28-yard field goal at 14:54 of the third pulled Hamilton to within 24-19. Frost found Lawler on a 24-yard touchdown pass at 1:49 after Ticat Destin Talbert steered George Idoko\u2019s fumbled kickoff return out of bounds at the Calgary 35-yard line.<\/p>\n
Liegghio\u2019s 35-yard field goal to end the second quarter cut Calgary\u2019s halftime lead to 24-6. It came after McAllister and Wilson scored touchdowns 45 seconds apart.<\/p>\n
McAllister scored on a 15-yard run at 13:28 before Wilson returned Frost\u2019s fumble 28 yards for the score at 14:13. <\/p>\n
McAllister\u2019s TD came after Hamilton\u2019s Jamal Peters intercepted Adams but Hamilton was flagged for roughing the passer. The Ticats lost a challenge of the call.<\/p>\n
Liegghio\u2019s 41-yard field goal at 14:29 of the first cut Calgary\u2019s lead to 10-6.<\/p>\n
McAtamney put Calgary up 10-3 with a 53-yard field goal at 11:55. It was set up by Anthony Johnson\u2019s 32-yard return of Ford\u2019s fumble that was forced by Wilson. That happened just two plays after Ford ran 10 yards on a third-and-five gamble.<\/p>\n
A wide-open Brissett put Calgary ahead 7-3 with a 43-yard TD grab at 6:26. It followed Liegghio\u2019s 50-yard boot at 4:47 to open the scoring.<\/p>\n
UP NEXT<\/p>\n
Stampeders: Visit the Toronto Argonauts (3-4) on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Tiger-Cats: Visit the B.C. Lions (2-5) on Saturday, Aug. 8.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 1, 2026.<\/p>\n
Dan Ralph, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAt the end of the day, it would be terrible for us to peak early in the season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":844322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-844321","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\/844321","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=844321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}