Bo Levi Mitchell’s 5 TD passes lead Tiger-Cats past Stampeders 42-20

Bo Levi Mitchell yet has his archetypal triumph implicit the Calgary Stampeders.

Mitchell threw for 450 yards and 5 touchdowns to pb Hamilton past Calgary 42-20 connected Friday night. Mitchell, 34, spent his archetypal 10 CFL seasons with the Stampeders earlier joining the Tiger-Cats successful 2023.

Hamilton faced Calgary erstwhile past play with Mitchell connected the injured list. He returned to McMahon Stadium connected June 7, passing for 300 yards with a TD and an interception successful a season-opening 32-24 loss.

“It feels good, it’s thing I’ve wanted to bash since I near there,” Mitchell said. “It’s not thing that I person a vengeance against those guys but it’s your aged team.

“I’d beryllium lying if I didn’t archer you I wanted to spell retired determination and conscionable bushed the brakes disconnected of them due to the fact that I did . . . it felt bully to spell retired determination and bash it and conscionable enactment that to bed.”

Mitchell wasn’t alone. Cornerback Jonathan Moxey, antiaircraft backmost Richard Leonard and moving backmost Ante Litre are besides erstwhile Stampeders.

Moxey’s first-quarter interception ended Calgary’s awesome opening drive. It besides acceptable up Mitchell’s eight-yard TD walk to Tim White astatine 9:30 arsenic Hamilton rapidly surged into a 30-0 first-half advantage.

“I didn’t expect to beryllium capable to leap connected them that quickly,” said Hamilton caput manager Scott Milanovich. “Obviously the interception was, I thought, captious due to the fact that they had immoderate momentum, they were moving connected the archetypal drive.”

Mitchell leads the CFL successful passing yards (5,026), touchdowns (31) and interceptions (17). He registered his 3rd 5,000-yard passing run but the archetypal since 2018.

“It’s a milestone,” Milanovich said of Mitchell’s accomplishment. “I know, astir apt much important than that, however important that crippled was to him with his clip successful Calgary.

“I was arrogant of the mode helium played, particularly aft mentioning (during the week) I did privation to get Taylor (backup Taylor Powell) immoderate reps. That’s not the easiest happening for a starter truthful I thought Bo handled it beautifully and played truly well.”

Mitchell is conscionable 359 yards abbreviated of his career-best 5,385 passing yards acceptable successful 2016. He besides needs 4 TD passes to lucifer the career-high 35 helium had successful 2018.

Despite its aboriginal deficit, Calgary pulled to wrong 33-20 to commencement the fourth. Marc Liegghio’s 35-yard tract extremity astatine 4:43 enactment Hamilton up 36-20 earlier an announced Tim Hortons Field gathering of 22,410.

Mitchell cemented the triumph with a 14-yard TD walk to Steven Dunbar Jr. astatine 8:20. Mitchell completed 24-of-37 passes with an interception.

Hamilton (7-10) earned its 5th triumph successful six games but volition miss the CFL playoffs. The Ticats finished 4-5 astatine home.

Calgary (4-12-1) fell to 0-8 connected the road. The Stampeders are besides winless successful their past 9 games (0-8-1) and volition miss the CFL playoffs for the archetypal clip since ’04.

Dunbar and Tim White had 2 TDs each for Hamilton portion Jevoni Robinson scored the other. Liegghio booted 3 converts and 3 tract goals.

Tre Roberson and Matt Shiltz scored Calgary’s touchdowns. Rene Paredes kicked 2 tract goals portion Reggie Begelton had a two-point convert.

Shiltz was 12-of-24 passing for 124 yards and an interception portion rushing 7 times for 43 yards. Jake Maier finished two-of-five for 30 yards successful spot duty.

“We got down aboriginal and evidently they ran distant with it,” said Dave Dickenson, Calgary’s caput coach/GM. “We did combat backmost and helium (Shiltz) was portion of the crushed wherefore we got backmost into the crippled . . . we ne'er truly threatened them though.

“They had it nether power the full time. We kept warring but it surely wasn’t enough.”

Hamilton besides announced successful the archetypal fractional it volition discontinue Hall of Famer Garney Henley’s No. 26 astatine adjacent year’s location opener. He’ll articulation Angelo Mosca (No. 68) and Bernie Faloney (No. 10) arsenic the lone players successful franchise past to person their jerseys retired.

Paredes’ 42-yard tract extremity astatine 11:00 of the 3rd chopped Hamilton’s pb to 33-20.

Shiltz pulled Calgary to wrong 33-17 astatine 5:17. After scoring connected a 15-yard tally helium threw to Begelton for the two-point convert.

Shiltz near the crippled astatine 7:11 pursuing a seven-yard scramble but returned successful the fourth.

Liegghio’s 18-yard tract extremity astatine 2:52 extended Hamilton’s vantage to 33-9.

Roberson’s 65-yard pick-six astatine 14:36 of the 2nd chopped Hamilton’s half-time pb to 30-9. It took distant from an different coagulated show by Mitchell, who was 17-of-23 passing for 281 yards and 4 TDs.

Hamilton accumulated 339 nett violative yards and 18 archetypal downs, compared to 131 yards and 7 archetypal downs for Calgary.

Parades’ 45-yard tract extremity astatine 13:53 enactment Calgary connected the board. Liegghio’s 29-yard footwear astatine 12:48 extended Hamilton’s pb to 30-0.

Mitchell recovered Dunbar connected a six-yard TD walk astatine 4:30 to enactment Hamilton up 27-0. It came aft Mitchell recovered Robinson connected a 27-yard scoring flip 17 seconds into the quarter.

Mitchell and White combined connected a 31-yard scoring onslaught astatine 11:07 of the first. It followed Cody Grace’s 17-yard punt that, with the amerciable footwear penalty, resulted successful conscionable a seven-yard net.

Up next

Hamilton: At Ottawa (8-7-1) connected Friday night.

Calgary: At Saskatchewan (9-7-1) connected Oct. 26.