TORONTO \u2014 Dustin Crum ran for two touchdowns while Caleb Evans threw two scoring strikes to lead the Montreal Alouettes past the Toronto Argonauts 33-16 on Friday night in the CFL regular-season finale for both teams.<\/p>\n
Crum earned his first win in five career starts against the Argos.<\/p>\n
Montreal (14-4) swept the two-game series with Toronto (9-9) but this contest had no bearing on the East Division standings. The Als and Argos came in having already clinched the top two spots so they both rested a number of starters before 13,198 spectators at BMO Field.<\/p>\n
Toronto hosts the fourth-place finisher in the West in the East semifinal Oct 31. The winner visits Montreal in the division final Nov. 7.<\/p>\n
Crum completed 17-of-20 passes for 153 yards and ran four times for 12 yards and the two TDs. He was replaced by Caleb Evans to begin the second half.<\/p>\n
Evans found Charleston Rambo on a five-yard TD pass at 7:50 of the fourth to put Montreal ahead 26-16. It was set up by Mekhi Mews’ 44-yard punt return.<\/p>\n
Evans hooked up with Kaseem Ferdinand on a 23-yard touchdown pass at 13:08. Evans finished 11-of-14 passing for 82 yards with an interception.<\/p>\n
Tucker Horn, Toronto’s No. 3 quarterback, drew the start. He finished 20-of-26 passing for 215 yards with a TD and interception before giving way to Luis Perez in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
Perez completed two-of-three passes for 26 yards.<\/p>\n
Toronto’s Kevin Mital had three catches for 27 yards to crack the 1,000-yard plateau for the first time. He’s the fourth Argos receiver this season to reach the mark \u2014 Damonte Coxie, David Ungerer III and Tyler Kahmann are the others \u2014 a franchise first.<\/p>\n
Montreal’s Lewis Ward kicked two field goals and three converts.<\/p>\n
Dymere Miller had Toronto’s touchdown. Lirim Hajrullahu added the convert and three field goals.<\/p>\n
Hajrullahu’s 45-yard field goal to end the third pulled Toronto to within 19-16. He connected from 47 yards out at 1:39.<\/p>\n
Crum’s nine-yard TD run at 14:44 of the second gave Montreal a 19-10 halftime lead. The six-play, 60-yard drive was aided by pass interference and roughing the passer penalties against Toronto.<\/p>\n
Montreal was deserving of the lead. It ran 43 offensive plays to Toronto’s 14 and had the ball for more than 22 minutes in the first half.<\/p>\n
Ward staked Montreal to a 12-10 lead with a 42-yard field goal at 6:12. It followed Hajrullahu’s 53-yard boot at 2:30.<\/p>\n
Ward put Montreal ahead 9-7 with a 15-yard field goal at 13:41 of the first. The Alouettes had the ball for 13 minutes two seconds in the quarter.<\/p>\n
Toronto’s first play from scrimmage was Horn’s 71-yard TD pass to Miller at 6:10 to give the Argos a 7-6 advantage. Crum’s one-yard TD run at 5:35 capped Montreal’s opening 10-play, 76-yard drive but Joseph Zema missed the convert.<\/p>\n
Alouettes: Host the East Division final on Saturday, Nov. 7.<\/p>\n
Argonauts: Host the East Division semifinal on Saturday, Oct. 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Dustin Crum ran for two touchdowns while Caleb Evans threw two scoring strikes to lead the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":943966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-943965","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\/943965","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=943965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}