Canadian running back Brady Oliveira led the charge as the Winnipeg Blue Bombers handed the injury-plagued Montreal Alouettes their fourth consecutive loss with a 26-13 win on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
The reigning CFL Most Outstanding Player gave Winnipeg (6-4) a 23-13 lead with a three-yard touchdown run with 8:28 left in the fourth quarter. He totalled 120 rushing yards and added 73 through the air on nine receptions.<\/p>\n
Zach Collaros was an efficient 27-of-31 passing for 263 yards and one touchdown for the Bombers, who won their second in a row after a walk-off victory over the Ottawa Redblacks last week.<\/p>\n
Canadian receiver Nic Demski caught a touchdown pass before exiting with an injury in the second quarter. Jerreth Sterns also left the game after a hard hit just before halftime.<\/p>\n
In his first CFL start, fourth-string quarterback James Morgan finished with 198 passing yards on 18-for-33 completions with one TD and two interceptions for Montreal (5-6), which started a different QB for the third consecutive game.<\/p>\n
Morgan, a 28-year-old from Green Bay, Wisc., often sprayed passes wide and behind receivers in his second CFL appearance.<\/p>\n
Alexander Hollins caught a game-high 132 yards on five receptions, while Tyler Snead caught Montreal\u2019s only TD before 20,310 at Molson Stadium.<\/p>\n
Alouettes third-string QB Caleb Evans suffered a season-ending knee injury in last week\u2019s 36-18 loss to the B.C. Lions and joined starter Davis Alexander (hamstring) and backup McLeod Bethel-Thompson (elbow) on the six-game injured list.<\/p>\n
Montreal is also down top receivers Austin Mack and Tyson Philpot, safety Marc-Antoine Dequoy, returner James Letcher Jr., defensive back Dionte Ruffin, offensive lineman Justin Lawrence and defensive lineman Mustafa Johnson.<\/p>\n
After Montreal held Winnipeg scoreless in the third quarter, the Bombers finally broke through when Oliveira rushed into the end zone to cap a 10-play, 80-yard drive in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
Bombers kicker Sergio Castillo added to the lead with a 41-yard field goal to put Winnipeg ahead 26-13 with 2:37 remaining.<\/p>\n
Morgan led the Alouettes to the Winnipeg 38 with three first downs late, before throwing another pick to Trey Vaval.<\/p>\n
Castillo went 4-for-4 on field goals, while Montreal\u2019s Jose Maltos Diaz was good on both his attempts, including a 38-yarder.<\/p>\n
Winnipeg opened the scoring eight minutes into the game with a 13-yard field goal after the Alouettes halted the Bombers at their five-yard line with a Geoffrey Cantin-Arku hit on Collaros.<\/p>\n
Morgan then sent a big throw 45 yards to Hollins, bringing Montreal to the Winnipeg 25. But Montreal also settled for a 13-yard kick after running back Travis Theis pushed Montreal to the Bombers’ five-yard line.<\/p>\n
Demski caught a two-yard toss from Collaros with six seconds remaining in the first quarter to give the Bombers a 10-3 lead after a Montreal roughing-the-passer penalty.<\/p>\n
The Alouettes responded to tie when Morgan found Snead on a four-yard TD pass at 11:24 in the second quarter. Snead also sparked Montreal\u2019s drive downfield by throwing a 44-yard bomb to Hollins on a well-executed trick play for his second career completion.<\/p>\n
Under pressure, Morgan aired out an easy interception for Evan Holm at the centre of the field, leading to a second Castillo field goal from 20 yards out with 2:45 remaining in the half. And Castillo added another to put Winnipeg ahead 16-10 after two quarters.<\/p>\n
Alouettes: Host the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Sept. 6 after a bye week.<\/p>\n
Bombers: Visit the league-leading Saskatchewan Roughriders on Aug. 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian running back Brady Oliveira led the charge as the Winnipeg Blue Bombers handed the injury-plagued Montreal Alouettes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-87821","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\/87821","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=87821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}