HAMILTON — Antonio Pipkin and the Montreal Alouettes finished a hopeless season on a positive note.
Pipkin tossed a touchdown pass and kept running for two others as Montreal hung on for a 30-28 prevail upon the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the ordinary season finale for the two groups Saturday night. The Alouettes (4-14) will miss the CFL playoffs for the fourth continuous year however finished the crusade with two straight triumphs.
"That was imperative," Pipkin said. "We were 3-15 a year ago and didn't complete how we needed and that abandons you with an awful taste in your mouth.
"Completing with a win here, it just shows we were in a great deal of ball games. Despite the fact that groups dependably change each year, having the capacity to return one year from now we have something to work off of."
Hamilton (8-10) came in having established second in the East Division and along these lines rested the greater part of its starters, including quarterback Jeremiah Masoli. The Ticats have the B.C. Lions in the meeting elimination round next Sunday riding a three-amusement losing streak.
Hamilton had a shot ultimately win, yet Lirim Hajrullahu missed a field objective 49 yards out on the amusement's last play.
"I feel like simply watching the amusement that we allowed ourselves to win," said Hamilton head mentor June Jones. "That is the thing that we needed to do and we did, we simply fell somewhat short.
"We're the place we need to be. Presently we have a home playoff diversion and an opportunity to win that and go to Ottawa (for the East last). We've allowed ourselves to arrive."
Pipkin's one-yard TD keep running at 14:24 of the second from last quarter staked Montreal to a 30-18 advantage. It was set up by Ty Cranston's recuperation of Terrell Sinkfield's bumble on a kickoff at the Hamilton 19-yard line.
Ticats quarterback Dane Evans, in his first CFL begin, discovered Mike Jones on a 26-yard touchdown go at 4:34 of the fourth. That slice Montreal's prompt 30-25 preceding a liberally reported Tim Hortons Field social affair of 23,381.
Evans drove Hamilton to the Montreal 19-yard line however the Ticats needed to agree to Hajrullahu's 20-yard field objective at 12:42 of the fourth to tight Montreal's prompt 30-28.
Evans completed 22-of-37 going for 315 yards with two TDs and two block attempts. Mike Jones had five gets for 114 yards and the TD, Bralon Addison recorded seven gatherings for 103 yards and a touchdown while John White kept running for 88 yards on nine conveys.
Quarterback Johnny Manziel made his eighth begin for Montreal. He finished four of five goes for 59 yards before offering approach to Pipkin in the second quarter with the Alouettes driving 7-3.
"I would've delighted in playing each play of the whole diversion," Manziel said. "Be that as it may, with the snaps I got and the three drives that we had, I felt like we should have a larger number of focuses than the seven we.
"However, to turn out right off the bat in the diversion, move the ball, which we hadn't been doing throughout the previous six, seven, eight recreations, and score first (was great)."
Manziel repeated the significance of Montreal completing its season solid.
"Just to have an opportunity to win two and end on the correct note and incorporate with next season I believe is the greatest part about it," the previous Heisman Trophy champ said. "We weren't glancing back at what happened before in the season or anything like that.
"We were centered around completing the season the correct way and incorporating and moving with what's coming one year from now."
Pipkin was 8-of-15 going for 217 yards while running four times for 21 yards. Eugene Lewis had two gets for 105 yards and two TDs for Montreal while William Stanback enrolled four gatherings for 100 yards.
Hamilton slice Montreal's prompt 20-18 on Sean Thomas-Erlington's two-yard TD keep running at 5:26 of the third. In any case, Boris Bede's 43-yard field objective at 11:20 put the Alouettes ahead 23-18.
Bede kicked three proselytes and a field objective for Montreal.
Hajrullahu booted three believers, a solitary and two field objectives.
Pipkin hit Lewis with a 75-yard TD hurl at 12:25 of the second to stake Montreal to a 20-11 halftime lead. He was sacked on the two-point convert.
Hamilton trimmed the shortage to 14-11 on Evans' 20-yard touchdown go to Addison at 8:41. Hajrullahu caught up with a 72-yard single on the following kickoff.
Pipkin's one-yard keep running at 3:47 of the second put Montreal ahead 14-3. The TD was granted upon audit after Pipkin was apparently halted on third-and-one.
It came after Hajrullahu's 22-yard field objective at 11:53 of the first. Manziel opened the scoring with a 30-yard TD strike to Lewis at 5:10, topping a seven-play, 76-yard drive.
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