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<\/p>\nGemon Green and Tyrice Beverette forced turnovers on defence, and Montreal\u2019s special-teams unit made a mark with Kylan Guidry blocking a punt and DeVonte Dedmon returning big gains.<\/p>\n
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Defensive back Tyrell Ford had a pair of interceptions for Edmonton (6-3), which also lost at home against the West Division-leading Saskatchewan Roughriders last week.<\/p>\n
Elks quarterback Cody Fajardo was smothered by his former team. He threw for 231 yards on 21-for-35 passing with two touchdowns and a pick on a humid, 28 C afternoon.<\/p>\n
Edmonton kicker Vincent Blanchard was 1-for-2 on field goals, while Montreal\u2019s Jose Maltos Diaz went 2-for-2.<\/p>\n
The Elks dealt the Alouettes their only loss of the season with a 32-29 overtime victory in Edmonton on June 20. In the process, Fajardo handed Alexander, his former backup, his first regular-season loss in their first head-to-head matchup.<\/p>\n
This matchup played out differently.<\/p>\n
A tight game at halftime, the Alouettes blew it wide open with a pair of turnovers early in the third quarter.<\/p>\n
Green stripped former Montreal receiver Austin Mack, leading to a 32-yard touchdown for Snead. <\/p>\n
Beverette then picked off Fajardo, and Maltos Diaz kicked a 38-yard field goal to give the Alouettes a 34-17 lead after three quarters.<\/p>\n
Philpot\u2019s third TD reception of the game with 5:55 left in the fourth quarter put an exclamation point on a dominant showing. Alexander launched a 54-yard bomb deep to his favourite target, drawing \u201cOl\u00e9, Ol\u00e9\u201d chants from the crowd.<\/p>\n
Fajardo found Mack on a 33-yard touchdown with four minutes left, cutting Montreal\u2019s lead to 41-24, only for short-yardage QB Terry Wilson to score for the Alouettes on a sneak.<\/p>\n
Edmonton\u2019s Carter Kettyle added a garbage-time touchdown from backup QB Taylor Powell with one minute left.<\/p>\n
The Alouettes started the game with a trick play that backfired when Snead took a handoff and threw deep to a covered Cole Spieker, leading to Ford\u2019s first interception.<\/p>\n
Snead redeemed himself by hauling in a 32-yard pass from Alexander after Guidry\u2019s blocked punt. Alexander then scored himself, rushing 10 yards and diving into the end zone with 1:17 remaining in the first quarter.<\/p>\n
Edmonton tied the game early in the second when Fajardo \u2014 after a 13-yard Alouettes face mask penalty \u2014 scored a one-yard QB sneak.<\/p>\n
Alexander then found Philpot alone on the edge of the end zone for a 14-7 advantage at 7:20 in the second quarter.<\/p>\n
A couple of drives later, Ford caught his second interception, this time picking off Alexander after he threw across his body while scrambling. Ford returned the ball 30 yards to set up Fajardo\u2019s six-yard TD toss to T.J. Luther.<\/p>\n
The tied score was short-lived as Alexander and Philpot connected again on a nine-yard score \u2014 after a pair of big gains on the ground from Travis Theis \u2014 to retake the lead with 1:51 remaining in the half.<\/p>\n
And the Alouettes didn\u2019t look back.<\/p>\n
UP NEXT<\/p>\n
Alouettes: Host the Ottawa Redblacks on Aug. 20 after a bye week.<\/p>\n
Elks: Host the Toronto Argonauts on Aug. 15.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 8, 2026.<\/p>\n
Daniel Rainbird, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gemon Green and Tyrice Beverette forced turnovers on defence, and Montreal\u2019s special-teams unit made a mark with Kylan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-851136","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\/851136","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=851136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}