HAMILTON \u2014 Davis Alexander threw two touchdown passes to power the Montreal Alouettes past the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 37-25 in the annual Hall of Fame game Friday night.<\/p>\n
Montreal (11-3) earned its second win in four games but continued its dominance of the East Division, improving to 7-0 versus conference rivals. Alexander captured his fifth win in as many meetings with Hamilton and is now 15-0 in conference matchups.<\/p>\n
Alexander finished 21-of-27 passing for 218 yards. Stevie Scott ran for 108 yards on 21 carries.<\/p>\n
Montreal was also coming off a 48-29 road loss to the B.C. Lions. Alexander has yet to lose consecutive games as a CFL starter and guided the Als to a 3-0 season sweep of Hamilton.<\/p>\n
But Alouettes receiver Tyler Snead suffered a knee sprain in the second half and didn\u2019t return. He had four catches for 40 yards.<\/p>\n
Hamilton (4-10) came off a bye week but suffered a fourth straight loss. The Ticats committed six turnovers (four interceptions, fumble, downs) to fall to 1-5 within the East Division and remain third in the standings.<\/p>\n
With Hamilton\u2019s loss, the Toronto Argonauts (7-6) can clinch a post-season berth and home playoff game with a win Saturday afternoon over the Edmonton Elks (10-3).<\/p>\n
Hamilton\u2019s Harrison Frost completed 33-of-50 passes for 340 yards with three touchdowns and four interceptions in his third start of the season (1-2). The Ticats also lost defensive back Jamal Peters (head).<\/p>\n
Caleb Evans\u2019 two-yard TD run at 1:40 of the fourth quarter pushed Montreal\u2019s lead to 34-3. But Hamilton then scored 22 straight points, starting with Frost\u2019s 33-yard TD strike to Kiondre Smith at 4:48 that cut the Als\u2019 lead to 34-9 as the two-point convert was unsuccessful.<\/p>\n
Frost threw a three-yard TD pass to Kurleigh Gittens Jr. at 9:46. He then found Kenny Lawler for the two-point convert, cutting Montreal\u2019s lead to 34-17.<\/p>\n
Frost pulled Hamilton to within 34-25 with a 18-yard TD pass to Keric Wheatfall at 13:01 before finding Smith for the two-point convert. The Ticats regained possession at their 20-yard line with 1:19 remaining but Gemon Green cemented the win with an interception with 55 seconds to play, setting up Jose Maltos Diaz\u2019s 33-yard field goal at 14:37.<\/p>\n
The Canadian Football Hall of Fame\u2019s 2026 class was honoured at halftime. This year\u2019s inductees included former players Brandon Banks, Sean Millington, Charleston Hughes, Calvin Tiggle and Jim Evenson and builder Frank (Pop) Ivy, the former Edmonton head coach.<\/p>\n
Evenson and Ivy were enshrined posthumously.<\/p>\n
Donny Ventrelli, Nate Beauchemin and Tyson Philpot had Montreal\u2019s other touchdowns. Maltos Diaz kicked four converts and three field goals.<\/p>\n
Marc Liegghio had a field goal for Hamilton.<\/p>\n
Maltos Diaz\u2019s 21-yard field goal at 3:38 of the third extended Montreal\u2019s advantage to 27-3.<\/p>\n
Liegghio\u2019s 13-yard field goal to end the second quarter cut Montreal\u2019s halftime lead to 24-3. It followed Alexander\u2019s 12-yard TD strike to Philpot at 13:54.<\/p>\n
Philpot\u2019s CFL-high 12th touchdown grab capped Montreal\u2019s 14-play, 86-yard drive.<\/p>\n
Beauchemin\u2019s 57-yard fumble return boosted Montreal\u2019s advantage to 17-0. Alouettes linebacker Geoffrey Cantin-Arku forced Hamilton quarterback Jake Dolegala to fumble on third-and-inches before Beauchemin picked up the loose ball and scored at 5:43.<\/p>\n
Maltos Diaz connected from 49 yards to end the first and put Montreal ahead 10-0. Alexander opened the scoring with a 10-yard TD pass to Ventrelli, the Alouettes\u2019 starting right guard, at 10:05.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 18, 2026.<\/p>\n
Dan Ralph, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HAMILTON \u2014 Davis Alexander threw two touchdown passes to power the Montreal Alouettes past the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 37-25…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":901244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-901243","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\/901243","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=901243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}