{"id":902539,"date":"2026-09-20T05:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T05:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/902539\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T05:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T05:50:09","slug":"calgary-stampeders-down-ottawa-redblacks-40-38-with-62-yard-field-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/902539\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary Stampeders down Ottawa Redblacks 40-38 with 62-yard field goal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Calgary Stampeders quarterback Vernon Adams Jr., left, hands the ball off to Deonta McMahon, on Saturday.Jeff McIntosh\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

A 62-yard field goal by Rene Paredes, for the longest of his career, with two seconds remaining gave the Calgary Stampeders a 40-38 win over the visiting Ottawa Redblacks in the CFL on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Quincy Vaughn scored a pair of short-yardage rushing touchdowns and Tevin Jones and Jalen Philpot each caught touchdown passes for Calgary (6-8), which stayed in the playoff conversation, albeit in last place in the West Division.<\/p>\n

Paredes also produced field goals from 57, 23 and 19 yards, as well as four convert points in front of an announced 20,113 at McMahon Stadium.<\/p>\n

Quarterback McLeod Bethel-Thompson, in his first start for Ottawa this season, threw five touchdown passes and Keelan White caught three of them as the Redblacks fell to 0-13 on the season.<\/p>\n

The Redblacks became just the second team in CFL history to start a season with 13 straight losses after the Shreveport Pirates in 1994. <\/p>\n

Justin Hardy\u2019s touchdown catch with 72 seconds remaining and Brett Lauther\u2019s convert point gave the Redblacks at 38-37 lead.<\/p>\n

Kalil Pimpleton caught a touchdown pass in the third quarter to cut Calgary\u2019s lead to a field goal heading into the fourth quarter. <\/p>\n

Lauther missed a field-goal attempt from 43 yards, but was good from 37 yards and added four convert points.<\/p>\n

Bethel-Thompson, 38, completed 27 of 48 pass attempts for 379 yards and was intercepted once.<\/p>\n

Calgary quarterback Vernon Adams Jr. was 28-for-41 in passing for 357 yards and two touchdowns. He was intercepted for a fifth time in five games after a clean sheet in his first eight games this season.<\/p>\n

Adams went down clutching his left ankle after contact with one of his offensive lineman early in the third quarter. <\/p>\n

He returned to play the next series, however, and orchestrated a seven-play, 57-yard touchdown drive finished by Vaughn for Calgary\u2019s 24-14 lead. <\/p>\n

But Bethel-Thompson connected with Pimpleton on a 28-yard catch and run to score. Lauther and Paredes traded field goals early in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n

Bethel-Thompson threw to White at Calgary\u2019s nine-yard line and the 24-year-old from North Vancouver, B.C., ran the ball in for a four-point lead.<\/p>\n

But the Stampeders countered with a 63-yard march that concluded with Philpot\u2019s 26-yard catch in the end zone to re-take the lead 34-31. <\/p>\n

Zy Alexander picked off a Bethel-Thompson throw on the Redblack\u2019s subsequent drive that bounced out of Hardy\u2019s hands to give Calgary the ball on Ottawa\u2019s 23-yard line.<\/p>\n

The Stampeders managed only a field goal to lead by six points with just over two minutes to play. <\/p>\n

Their defence thought Ottawa turned the ball over on downs on the Redblacks\u2019 next drive, but Ottawa kept the drive alive on a successful pass interference challenge by coach Ryan Dinwiddie.<\/p>\n

Bethel-Thompson threw 15 yards to Hardy for a one-point lead. The game was left to the leg of Paredes after Calgary\u2019s offence struggled to push deep into Ottawa territory.<\/p>\n

Calgary was up 17-14 at halftime after Adams aired the ball downfield to Jones for a 60-yard touchdown with 36 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n

Ottawa led for the first time in the game with a minute left in the first half. Bethel-Thompson found White in the end zone a second time in a three-minute span with a 25-yard throw for a 14-10 lead.<\/p>\n

Calgary\u2019s Paredes drilled a low, hard kick 57 yards with the wind behind him for a field goal. <\/p>\n

After failing to cash a second-quarter interception of Adams into points and then turning the ball over on downs on Calgary\u2019s 11-yard line, Ottawa scored just inside the three-minute warning when Bethel-Thompson threw 19 yards to White in the end zone<\/p>\n

The host Stampeders scored on their first possession with an 11-play, 66-yard march capped by Vaughn\u2019s one-yard plunge.<\/p>\n

On Ottawa\u2019s opening drive, Lauther\u2019s field-goal attempt on a 43-yarder was wide for just his second miss this season.<\/p>\n

Temperature at kickoff was C 22 with winds gusting to 44 km\/h.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Calgary Stampeders quarterback Vernon Adams Jr., left, hands the ball off to Deonta…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,20739,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-902539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-ottawa","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902539","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=902539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}