{"id":9583,"date":"2025-07-20T03:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T03:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/9583\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T03:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T03:37:08","slug":"3-stats-that-defined-saskatchewans-week-7-win-over-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/9583\/","title":{"rendered":"3 stats that defined Saskatchewan\u2019s Week 7 win over BC"},"content":{"rendered":"

VANCOUVER \u2013 Trevor Harris<\/a> and the Saskatchewan Roughriders took care of business on the road on Saturday evening, grabbing a 33-27 win over the BC Lions to improve to 5-1 and remain perfect on their travels. A late score by BC made the game appear closer than it was as Saskatchewan held a lead for the vast majority of the contest.<\/p>\n

Harris and his receivers combined for multiple big plays to trouble a usually-stout Lions defence. On the other side, the Riders defenders shut down the BC run game and did enough to keep the Lions at bay in the second half as the hosts attempted to mount a late comeback.<\/p>\n

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

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43 \u2013 RUSHING YARDS AGAINST<\/p>\n

Rushing yards leader James Butler<\/a> put up his best performance of the year in Week 6 against the Elks and also punished the Riders the last time the two teams met in Week 4 but he couldn\u2019t recreate that sort of production at Save-on-Foods Field at BC Place on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Roughriders\u2019 defence did a great job of keeping Butler contained, limiting him to just 30 yards on the ground as Rourke had to instead look to get him involved in the passing game. With BC down early, game script kept the ball in Rourke\u2019s hands, also capping Butler\u2019s impact on the contest.<\/p>\n

4 \u2013 BIG TREVOR HARRIS PASSING PLAYS\u00a0<\/p>\n

From his team\u2019s first possession, Harris had his eyes locked downfield. Saskatchewan\u2019s quarterback unleashed four passing plays of 30 yards or more, including a 50-yard touchdown strike to Dohnte Meyers on the Riders\u2019 first drive.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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In the second quarter, a 66-yard completion over the top to Samuel Emilus<\/a> set up Brett Lauther<\/a> for one of his four field goals. Meyers would then get his second score of the evening on a 30-yard play in the third quarter and would finish with a game-high 132 receiving yards.<\/p>\n

1 \u2013 SPECIAL TEAMS TURNOVER<\/p>\n

The Roughriders narrowly won the turnover battle on Saturday thanks to an early special teams takeaway which helped the visitors jump out to a big first-quarter lead.<\/p>\n

On the kickoff following Meyers\u2019 early score, BC\u2019s Seven McGee saw the ball slip away after Melique Straker punched it loose. Jayden Dalke<\/a> made the recovery and Saskatchewan was able to grab the field goal. The Riders would eventually make it three consecutive scoring drives to begin the game as they took control early.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER \u2013 Trevor Harris and the Saskatchewan Roughriders took care of business on the road on Saturday evening,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-9583","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\/9583","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=9583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}