Hamilton Ticats surge past Edmonton Elks to earn second-straight win

Make it 2 wins successful a statement for nan abruptly surging Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

Quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell threw a career-high 5 touchdowns arsenic Hamilton (2-5) blitzed nan winless Edmonton Elks 44-28 Sunday nighttime astatine Commonwealth Stadium.

It was nan Ticats’ 5th consecutive triumph successful Edmonton (0-7) making love backmost to 2018. The Elks person mislaid 11 consecutive games making love backmost to past play and person not won a crippled successful 318 days.

The crippled turned connected its caput pinch conscionable nether 3 minutes near successful nan first half erstwhile Hamilton’s Kobe Jones blocked a punt by Edmonton’s Jake Julien and DQ Thomas recovered nan loose shot and returned it to nan Elks’ 12-yard line. One play later, Mitchell fired nan game’s first TD into nan hands of receiver Jevoni Robinson to springiness nan Cats a 13-8 lead.

About a infinitesimal later, Hamilton’s Jamal Peters intercepted Edmonton QB McLeod Bethel-Thompson astatine nan Ticats’ 44-yard statement and 2 plays later Mitchell connected pinch receiver Luther Hakunavanhu for a 66-yard TD.

The Ticats went up 28-8 erstwhile receiver Tim White caught nan first of his 2 touchdowns midway done nan 3rd quarter. The different came 5 minutes into nan 4th play that made it 41-8. Mitchell besides threw a 59-yard awesome to receiver Kiondre Smith.

Edmonton’s offence came live aft backup QB Tre Ford entered nan crippled pinch astir 10 minutes to play successful nan 4th quarter.

Ford engineered a 10-play, 84-yard thrust that was capped by a five-yard TD walk to receiver Kurleigh Gittens Jr. and followed it up pinch a 7 play, 67-yard touchdown thrust aft Gavin Cobb caught a 20-yard major.

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After Hamilton’s Ante Milanovic-Litre fumbled astatine nan Ticats’ 43-yard statement nan Elks sewage backmost into nan endzone connected their third-straight thrust erstwhile Ford recovered receiver Eugene Lewis for a 12-yard score.

Ford went 10-of-15 for 121 yards and 3 touchdown passes. Bethel-Thompson was 10-for-22 for 85 yards and 1 interception.

The past Ticats backmost to propulsion 5 touchdowns successful a crippled was Dane Evans successful 2022. Mitchell completed 17 of his 25 walk attempts for 316 yards while moving backmost James Butler had different beardown crippled pinch 98 rushing yards connected 21 carries.

The triumph was a large 1 for nan Tiger-Cats arsenic it matched wins during Week 8 of nan Canadian Football League play by East Division rivals Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa.

Hamilton will spell for its season-high 3rd triumph successful a statement connected Friday nighttime erstwhile they big nan CFL-leading Montreal Alouettes.