Logan scores 2 touchdowns as Stampeders win 49-6 over Elks
Peyton Logan and the Calgary Stampeders seem like the true deal this season.
Logan scored two touchdowns, together with one on a 122-yard missed discipline purpose return, as Calgary humbled the Edmonton Elks 49-6 on a soggy Thursday night time to stay unbeaten.
“We simply wish to play good soccer, and as soon as once more we did,” mentioned Calgary head coach Dave Dickenson. “We had some turnovers, we wish to tighten these issues up, however I feel we’re balanced.
“We’ve got a very good operating again, good operating recreation, not simply Ka’Deem (Carey), I feel now we have playmakers on all sides of the soccer. If we are able to do this, we’ll keep explosive.”
Carey completed the sport with 104 speeding yards on 12 carries as Calgary (4-0) improved to 19-2 coming off the bye week since 2008. Starter Bo Levi Mitchell was 17–of-22 passing for 279 yards and two TDs whereas Malik Henry had six catches for 150 yards and a landing.
“It was an extended night time,” mentioned Dickenson of a recreation prolonged by an hour-long storm delay. “I feel our guys had been centered and I did really feel like we needs to be the more energizing group.
“We had a bye and so they had a street journey, and regardless that they’d a giant win, enjoying a bodily recreation. Our purpose was to attempt to pace up the tempo slightly bit. I believed after the rain delay we had good focus.”
Edmonton (1-4) hasn’t received at Commonwealth Stadium because it beat the B.C. Lions on Oct. 12, 2019.
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“Sadly, we had some very premature accidents to some very key individuals early,” mentioned Elks head coach Chris Jones. “We had 4 six-game accidents that occurred and there was loads of patchwork that we needed to do there within the first half.
“Too many errors within the second half. We’ve bought to study to maintain the soccer, we’ve bought to do a greater job of stopping the run and we’ve bought to play higher stable particular groups. It was simply loads of completely different huge, huge performs that made a distinction within the recreation.”
Calgary Stampeders’ Ka’Deem Carey (35) is tackled by Edmonton Elks’ Scott Hutter (20) throughout second half CFL motion in Edmonton, Alta., on Thursday July 7, 2022.
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Calgary opened the scoring with a 29-yard Rene Paredes discipline purpose on its first drive. The Elks responded with a 38-yard discipline purpose from Sergio Castillo.
Within the second quarter, Edmonton conceded a security and Paredes kicked a 17-yard discipline purpose to provide Calgary an 8-3 lead.
The Stampeders recorded the sport’s first landing with slightly below 4 minutes to play within the opening half when Mitchell handed to Henry. The receiver shook off a defender and sprinted 89 yards for the rating as Calgary missed the two-point convert.
Calgary had one other enormous play to begin the second half as Logan took the missed discipline purpose try again for the landing.
The sport was then delayed for greater than an hour as a result of lightning, adopted by a deluge of rain.
It wasn’t lengthy after play resumed that Logan had his second TD of the competition, this on a 21-yard run.
Calgary made it 35-3 with two minutes to play within the third when Mitchell hit Luther Hakunavanhu on a 28-yard TD strike.
The Stampeders’ defence bought into the act when Cameron Decide returned a fumble 63 yards for the landing.
Castillo. kicked a 42-yard discipline purpose with six minutes left to double Edmonton’s scoring output.
Calgary closed out the sport with a one-yard TD run by backup Tommy Stevens.
The Elks journey to Montreal to face the Alouettes subsequent Thursday. The Stampeders head to Winnipeg to tackle the Blue Bombers subsequent Friday.
Thursday’s recreation was the second assembly of the season between the 2 Alberta rivals. Calgary received the primary recreation 30-23 on June 25, regardless of Edmonton holding a lead for many of the contest.
Tre Ford grew to become the primary Canadian quarterback to begin for Edmonton at house since Frank Cosentino in 1968, additionally towards the Stampeders. Sadly, Ford left the sport with what gave the impression to be a shoulder harm within the first quarter.
Among the many notables out with accidents for the Elks had been beginning operating again James Wilder Jr and defensive lineman Jake Ceresna. Former all-star cornerback Tre Roberson was again in Calgary’s lineup after lacking its final contest with a shoulder harm.
In the meantime, first-round draft decide Jalen Philpot made his first CFL begin for Calgary as Richard Sindani sat out with a hamstring harm.
