Mitchell's late TD pass to Lawler rallies Ticats to 23-20 home win over Ottawa Redblacks

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jul 14, 2025 9:01 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

Bo Levi Mitchell's three-yard TD walk to Kenny Lawler with 1:54 remaining rallied the Hamilton Tiger-Cats to a 23-20 triumph implicit the Ottawa Redblacks connected Saturday night.

Mitchell's 2nd scoring onslaught to Lawler capped a astute 50-yard, six-play drive. But Hamilton (3-2) caught a interruption erstwhile Ottawa's Michael Wakefield was called for roughing the passer connected a Mitchell second-down incompletion that kept the march alive.

Ottawa (1-5) had 1 last possession astatine its 19-yard enactment with 1:51 remaining, but the Redblacks turned the shot implicit connected downs astatine their 39-yard enactment with 1:13 remaining, delighting the Hamilton Stadium gathering of 22,913.

Hamilton was capable to tally retired the timepiece for a 3rd consecutive triumph and determination into a necktie with idle Montreal (3-2) atop the East Division. Ottawa has dropped 3 straight.

Hamilton had a glorious accidental to instrumentality the pb connected Mack Bannatyne's betterment of Kalil Pimpleton's fumble of Nic Constantinou's 57-yard punt astatine Ottawa's 15-yard line. But the Ticats drove to the Redblacks four-yard enactment earlier turning the shot implicit connected downs with 5:12 to play.

Ottawa appeared to spell up 27-13 connected Pimpleton's 105-yard punt-return TD astatine 1:53. But it was negated by an amerciable artifact penalty, the Redblacks' archetypal of the crippled pursuing an unsuccessful challenge.

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Ottawa started astatine its 15-yard line, and Dru Brown's walk was intercepted by Jamal Peters, his 2nd prime of the game. That gave Hamilton possession astatine the Redblacks' 43-yard line, mounting up Marc Liegghio's 38-yard tract extremity astatine 4:23 that pulled the Ticats to wrong 20-16.

Liegghio kicked 3 tract goals and a person portion Nic Constantinou added a azygous for Hamilton.

Keelan White and William Stanback had Ottawa's touchdowns. Lewis Ward booted the converts and 2 tract goals.

Stanback ended the 3rd with a 23-yard TD tally that enactment Ottawa up 20-13. Ward gave the Redblacks a 13-10 vantage with a 14-yard tract extremity astatine 9:46. But Liegghio tied it with a 41-yard footwear astatine 12:54.

Mitchell's 44-yard TD onslaught to Lawler astatine 2:38 made it 10-10 arsenic Liegghio missed the convert. It followed Ward's 41-yard tract extremity astatine 1:08.

Brown's 10-yard TD walk to White, the 3rd prime of the '25 CFL draft, successful the archetypal 4th staked Ottawa to its 7-4 halftime lead. The seven-play, 70-yard march accounted for astir fractional of the Redblacks' 142 nett violative yards.

Ottawa threatened to spell up 10-4 but Ward missed from 48 yards retired with nether 3 minutes to play.

Hamilton mustered 165 nett yards, but could lone negociate a tract extremity and single. The Ticats besides took each 7 penalties called successful the fractional for 71 yards arsenic some teams had six full possessions.

Brown completed 13-of-19 passes for 137 yards. Mitchell was 13-of-22 passing for 128 yards arsenic Isaiah Wooden Sr.'s 47-yard punt instrumentality was the opening half's biggest play.

Constantinou's 51-yard punt astatine 3:16 of the 2nd 4th chopped Ottawa's pb to 7-1. Liegghio pulled Hamilton to wrong 7-4 with a 16-yard tract extremity astatine 8:59.