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The Ottawa Redblacks defeated the Toronto Argonauts 40-39 on Friday night at TD Place. It’s broken their 22-game losing streak that stretches back to last season. <\/p>\n
Rookie quarterback Bryson Barnes led the team to victory in his first CFL start. It is also Ottawa’s first win this season and first at home since Sept. 5, 2025.<\/p>\n
Barnes completed 27 of 37 passes for 335 yards and two touchdowns to Ayden Eberhardt for the Redblacks (1-16). <\/p>\n
Nick Arbuckle led the way for the Argonauts (9-8) going 26-for-34 for 305 yards, two TDs and one interception after Chad Kelly left the game midway through the first quarter.<\/p>\n
Kelly was apparently hurt after he was brought down by Ottawa defensive end Luiji Vilain.<\/p>\n
Thrilling quarter<\/p>\n
Toronto took a 39-33 lead with 30 seconds left to play, but Barnes was poised, putting together a three-play drive and connected with Eberhardt for a 24-yard touchdown to tie the game. <\/p>\n
Paul Geelen gave Ottawa the lead with the convert with six seconds remaining.<\/p>\n
With time winding down and Ottawa leading 33-31, Khazir Brown intercepted Arbuckle to regain possession at the Ottawa 27. <\/p>\n
The Redblacks were unable to capitalize and had to punt.<\/p>\n
On the following drive the Argos got down field and Isaiah Smith ran in a four-yard touchdown and added the two-point conversion to take a 39-33 lead with 30 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n
Back-and-forth scoring <\/p>\n
Ottawa took a 33-24 lead on Barnes’s first CFL touchdown pass, to Eberhardt, but Arbuckle answered right back with a 34-yard touchdown pass to Kevin Mital with three minutes remaining to pull Toronto within two, 33-31.<\/p>\n
The third quarter saw Arbuckle put together an impressive 3:30 drive that culminated with a 28-yard touchdown pass to Mital and a two-point conversion to tie things 24-24. <\/p>\n
With Paul Geelen putting Ottawa back in front with a 51-yard field goal, the Redblacks overcame a disastrous start to take a 23-16 lead at the half.<\/p>\n
Ottawa went two-and-out on their first possession, with Barnes taking a sack before Derek Slywka blocked the ensuing punt and Ethan John returned it 16 yards for a Toronto touchdown.<\/p>\n
Barnes was unfazed and responded with a seven-play, 66-yard drive and Daniel Adeboboye ran in a one-yard touchdown. <\/p>\n
Ottawa added a 20-yard field goal to take a 10-6 first quarter lead, which was regained by Toronto with Arbuckle under centre.<\/p>\n
Arbuckle put together an eight-play, 70-yard drive that ended with Cam Porter’s one-yard touchdown run before Ottawa tied the game 13-13 on a 40-yard field goal.<\/p>\n
The Argonauts were back in front on Lirim Hajrullahu’s 43-yard field goal, but Barnes answered right back and had Ottawa back in the red zone setting up Adeboboye’s second touchdown of the half, a three-yard run after he found an open lane. <\/p>\n
Ottawa closed out the half with a 53-yard field goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":936179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-936178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936178","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=936178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}