Game Summary

27,153 Stampeder faithful turned out on Sunday afternoon in hopes that their hometown squad would notch their eighth victory of the season. The Alouettes however opened the games scoring at 11:08 of the first quarter when WR Nigel Williams teamed up with QB Tracy Ham for a 15-yard TD. K Terry Baker added the extra point putting Montreal up by a 7-0 score after one period of play. The Alouettes added to their lead at 5:21 of the second when DB Charles Gordon stepped in front of an errant Jeff Garcia pass and returned it 15 yards for the major. Baker’s second convert of the game upped the Montreal lead to 14-0. Baker increased their lead to 15-0 when on the ensuing kickoff his kick sailed into the end zone for an 86-yard single. However, the Stamps battled back and got on the score sheet at 9:04 when Garcia found WR Travis Moore alone for a 23-yard TD. K Mark McLoughlin added the convert cutting the Alouettes’ lead to 8 points. The Stamps continued to battle and with just 45 seconds left in the half, RB Kelvin Anderson plunged into the end zone from 2 yards out. The McLoughlin convert cut the Montreal lead to just one point after one half of play. Baker added an 18-yard FG and a 73-yard punting single to open the second half scoring increasing the Montreal lead to 5 once again, but this was short lived as the Stampeders pulled some special teams tricks out of their hat. The antics occurred at 12:59 of the third quarter as the Stamps lined up in FG position. Backup QB, Dave Dickenson pulled up and found OL Ron Meyer alone in the end zone for a 21-yard TD pass. McLoughlin added the convert giving the Stamps their first lead of the game. They added to this lead less than a minute later when FB Farell Duclair scooped up a fumble and took it into the end zone for a 36-yard TD. The McLoughlin convert rounded out the third quarter scoring with the Stamps on top by a 28-19 score. Baker trimmed Calgary’s lead to 6 at 5:39 of the fourth quarter when he split the uprights from 14 yards out. However, the Stampeders would go on to score 15 unanswered points thanks to a 12-yard Anderson rushing TD and a 38-yard Allen Pitts receiving major. These majors scores, added with a 2-point convert and a 1-point convert, equated into a 43-22 Calgary win. The win, coupled with the Eskimos’ loss placed the Red and White into the three-way tie for first in the Western Division.