{"id":93663,"date":"2025-08-24T14:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T14:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/93663\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T14:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T14:05:11","slug":"3-stats-that-defined-calgarys-week-12-win-over-saskatchewan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/93663\/","title":{"rendered":"3 stats that defined Calgary\u2019s Week 12 win over Saskatchewan"},"content":{"rendered":"

CALGARY \u2014 The Calgary Stampeders closed out Week 12 with their second win over Saskatchewan this season, pulling closer to the West Division-leading Roughriders with a 32-15 victory at McMahon Stadium on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

What began as a back-and-forth battle between the two top teams in the CFL turned decidedly in Calgary\u2019s favour in the second half, as the Stampeders capitalised on offensive opportunities and smothered the Riders\u2019 attack on defence.<\/p>\n

Hoping to post their best 10-game start in club history, Saskatchewan instead fell to 8-2 and must remain on high alert with the Stamps threatening at 7-3.<\/p>\n

CFL.ca brings you three key stats from the Calgary Stampeders\u2019 win over the Saskatchewan Roughriders.<\/p>\n

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0 \u2013 SASKATCHEWAN SECOND-HALF POINTS<\/p>\n

It was a tale of two halves for Trevor Harris<\/a> and the Riders\u2019 offence. A missed field goal from Brett Lauther<\/a> hinted at a slow start, but Saskatchewan mostly kept pace with Calgary through the first two quarters, even erasing a 12-point deficit to take a one-point lead into halftime. The Stampeders\u2019 defence, however, shut that momentum down \u2014 and did so with a bang.<\/p>\n

Clarence Hicks<\/a> set the tone with a drive-killing sack on the Riders\u2019 first third-quarter series, and the rest of the defence followed with three turnovers, including two turnovers on downs in the late stages to keep Saskatchewan off the board and out of striking distance of a potential comeback.<\/p>\n

4 \u2013 CALGARY SACKS<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t just Hicks pressuring Harris \u2014 though he added two of the team\u2019s four sacks. Shaun Peterson Jr. and Justin Sambu also made their impact felt, with Peterson forcing a crucial third-quarter punt and Sambu setting up a long second down that led to a turnover on downs in the fourth. Saskatchewan entered Week 12 allowing the second-fewest sacks (11) in the CFL, but on Saturday, the offensive line struggled against Calgary\u2019s creative and aggressive blitz packages.<\/p>\n

On the other side, Saskatchewan\u2019s front had trouble tracking Vernon Adams Jr., whose evasiveness kept him clean and the Riders without a sack. With Saskatchewan entering the matchup leading the league with 28 sacks, it was an impressive showing in the trenches for Calgary.<\/p>\n

3 \u2013 VERNON ADAMS JR. TOUCHDOWNS<\/p>\n

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It was feast or famine for the Stampeders\u2019 offence on Saturday. They had six two-and-outs and two more drives ending in interceptions, but when they needed it, Adams Jr. delivered. The Stamps quarterback found the end zone three times while throwing 14-for-21 for 222 yards \u2014 punctuating his night by threading a dime to Erik Brooks for a game-sealing fourth-quarter score and running in the two-point conversion himself.<\/p>\n

It would have been difficult to replicate his performance in the Stamps\u2019 Week 6 win over the Riders \u2014 where he threw for 428 yards and three touchdowns \u2014 but he once again outdueled Harris, guiding Calgary to the win despite the offence sputtering at times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CALGARY \u2014 The Calgary Stampeders closed out Week 12 with their second win over Saskatchewan this season, pulling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-93663","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\/93663","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=93663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}