After suffering their first loss of the season a week prior, the Roughriders bounced back with a clean victory over the visiting Blue Bombers
The Saskatchewan Roughriders took care of business on Friday night.
Debuting their new obsidian green alternate uniforms, the Roughriders topped the visiting Winnipeg Blue Bombers xx-xx in front of 29,649 fans at Mosaic Stadium in Week 7 of the CFL season.
After suffering their first loss of the season one week ago against the B.C. Lions, the Riders bounced back to improve to 5-1 in the West Division while the Bombers dropped to 2-5.
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Scoring summary
The Bombers opened the scoring with a 35-yard field goal by Sergio Castillo on the first drive of the game to put Winnipeg on top 3-0 early.
Later in the first quarter, after Riders’ quarterback Shea Patterson connected with Kian Schaffer-Baker for three first downs to get Saskatchewan to Winnipeg’s 20-yard line, Brett Lauther kicked a 28-yard field goal to tie the game 3-3.
Winnipeg responded with a 56-yard field goal in the second quarter before Lauther evened the game 6-6 with a 41-yard field goal.
On Saskatchewan’s second drive of the second half, Patterson started the series with a 21-yard rush before connecting with Ajou Ajou for a pair of first downs.
From there, Patterson found a wide-open Clint Ratkovich in the end zone as the fullback caught his first CFL touchdown from 15 yards out to put Saskatchewan on top 13-6 with the convert.
As the Bombers were looking to respond, Winnipeg quarterback Zach Collaros was intercepted by Riders’ linebacker Adam Auclair on the Saskatchewan 19-yard line.
After a fortunate pass interference call gained them 29 yards, Patterson found Ajou on a short pass before the rookie receiver broke a tackle and scampered 33 yards.
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However, the Riders couldn’t find the end zone as Lauther was called in to kick a 31-yard field goal to make it 16-6 Saskatchewan to begin the fourth quarter.
With 5:51 left in the game, Castillo responded with his third field goal of the night for Winnipeg to make it 16-9.
The Bombers tried to put another scoring drive together on their next series, but before they could score, Riders’ linebacker Jameer Thurman caught Bombers’ receiver Nic Demski from behind after a big gain and punched the ball loose.
After the Riders recovered the fumble, Patterson connected with Ajou for a 46-yard gain before Lauther came in to kick a 32-yard field goal to make it 19-9 with 1:32 left.
From there, the Roughriders defence closed out the game to secure the win.
Saskatchewan will now travel to Montreal on Thursday to take on the 5-1 Alouettes, who were on a bye this week.
More to come…
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