Joshua Cephus caught a three-yard pass in the endzone during the two-point shootout as the Edmonton Elks returned to their winning ways with a dramatic 37-35 overtime victory over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Cody Fajardo went 32-of-47 passing for 298 yards with one rushing touchdown and one interception as the West Division-leading Elks (11-4) made it five wins in their last six.<\/p>\n
Justin Rankin had 74 rushing yards on 11 carries, while Zach Mathis had five catches for 75 yards. Kicker Vincent Blanchard broke a CFL record with nine field goals in the game.<\/p>\n
Harrison Frost completed 17 of 34 pass attempts for 214 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions as the Tiger-Cats (4-11) lost their fifth in a row.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hamilton was officially eliminated from the playoffs.<\/p>\n
Larry Rountree III had 91 yards on the ground on 13 carries with a TD. Kurleigh Gittens Jr. led all Hamilton receivers with four catches, 62 yards and a TD.<\/p>\n
The Ticats cashed in on their opening drive with a 30-yard field goal from Marc Liegghio.<\/p>\n
Edmonton quickly responded with a 40-yard field goal from Blanchard.<\/p>\n
Hamilton took a 10-3 lead with three minutes to play in the opening quarter as Rountree blazed up the middle and shrugged off a few tackles on his way to a 39-yard touchdown.<\/p>\n
The Elks once again answered with a 37-yard Blanchard field goal.<\/p>\n
Edmonton squandered a glorious opportunity after a punt return was fumbled away by Hamilton\u2019s Myron Mitchell and recovered by Elk Royce Metchie at the Ticats’ 12-yard line, but all they got out of it was a 22-yard field goal from Blanchard.<\/p>\n
Blanchard put Edmonton up 12-10 with three minutes left in the second quarter with a 54-yard field goal.<\/p>\n
Edmonton closed out the half with yet another 25-yard Blanchard field goal.<\/p>\n
Blanchard kicked his sixth field goal from 40 yards midway through the third.<\/p>\n
The Ticats surged back with a 34-yard TD pass from Frost to Gittens. The two-point convert attempt failed.<\/p>\n
The Elks finally found the end zone with three minutes left in the third as a 34-yard run by Rankin set up a one-yard quarterback keeper by Fajardo.<\/p>\n
Hamilton once again bounced back on the first play of the fourth with a 31-yard TD pass from Frost to Tyler Ternowski.<\/p>\n
Edmonton then kicked a punt single.<\/p>\n
The Ticats tied the game 26-26 with 6:26 remaining on a 46-yard Liegghio field goal.<\/p>\n
Liegghio missed a 51-yard attempt with two minutes remaining.<\/p>\n
Fajardo was then intercepted on the Edmonton 33-yard-line by Reggie Stubblefield, leading to a 21-yard field goal by Liegghio to give Hamilton the lead.<\/p>\n
Blanchard tied the game with three seconds left with his seventh field goal, from 27 yards.<\/p>\n
Hamilton had first crack in OT, getting a 41-yard field goal from Liegghio.<\/p>\n
Blanchard tied the record with his eighth from 37 yards. The Elks kicker then broke the record with his ninth, hitting from 35 yards out in the second OT.<\/p>\n
Hamilton had first down from the three on their turn but were forced to accept a 12-yard field goal to set up a two-point convert shootout.<\/p>\n
The Ticats failed to score on their first attempt, giving the Elks the chance to win it.<\/p>\n
The Elks record for field goals in a game was previously seven, set by Sean Fleming. The CFL record was eight, which had happened five times before Blanchard broke it on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Tiger-Cats: Travel to Ottawa to face the Redblacks next Friday.<\/p>\n
Elks: Have a bye before heading to Hamilton for a rematch on Oct. 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joshua Cephus caught a three-yard pass in the endzone during the two-point shootout as the Edmonton Elks returned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-911115","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\/911115","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=911115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}