Blue Bombers beat Ticats for eighth straight win, clinch home playoff date

The Winnipeg Blue Bombers support connected rolling and are present connected the brink of clinching archetypal spot successful the West Division.

Brady Oliveira strengthened his lawsuit for Most Outstanding Player by rushing for 147 yards arsenic the Bombers bushed the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 31-10 Friday night.

It is Winnipeg’s eighth consecutive win, moving them to 10-6 connected the play and their archetypal regular play triumph successful Hamilton since 2017.

The Bombers guaranteed themselves a location playoff crippled with the triumph and volition clinch archetypal spot successful the part if Saskatchewan loses to Edmonton connected Saturday.

Winnipeg’s defence had different banner night, holding Hamilton QB Bo Levi Mitchell to 217 yards passing, intercepting him doubly and sacking him twice.

The Bombers opened the scoring astir halfway done the archetypal 4th erstwhile Collaros recovered Kevens Clercius for a 25-yard touchdown pass, the archetypal of Clercius’ CFL career.

After Hamilton tied it acknowledgment to a James Butler 18-yard touchdown run, the Bombers took the pb backmost arsenic the archetypal 4th was expiring connected a 22-yard tract extremity from Sergio Castillo.

In the 2nd quarter, the Bombers extended the pb connected a Terry Wilson one-yard touchdown run, acceptable up by a agelong 55-yard walk from Collaros to Kenny Lawler.

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The Ticats would adhd a tract extremity arsenic the fractional was expiring to marque it 17-10 Bombers done 30 minutes.

The people would stay that mode until precocious successful the 3rd 4th erstwhile Oliveira recovered the endzone from 4 yards retired connected a thrust wherever helium picked up 48 yards rushing alone.

Wilson would different rushing touchdown successful the 4th fourth to enactment the crippled retired of reach.

On the wounded front, antiaircraft backmost Brandon Alexander, receiver Ontaria Wilson, and linebacker Michael Ayers each near the crippled and did not return.

The Bombers volition play their last location crippled of the regular play connected Friday, October 11 erstwhile they big the Toronto Argonauts.