The B.C. Lions will be at home to start the CFL playoffs.
The Lions earned the right to host a West Division semifinal contest after recording a tough 27-21 road win over the Saskatchewan Roughriders Saturday at Mosaic Stadium.
B.C. quarterback Nathan Rourke threw for 368 yards (surpassing 5,000 on the season) and three touchdowns as the Lions finished the regular season with an 11-7 record. The second-place Lions will face the Calgary Stampeders next Saturday, Nov. 1 (2 p.m.) at B.C. Place. The winner will face the first-place Roughriders (12-6) in the West Final.
Ayden Eberhardt (2) and Keon Hatcher had touchdowns for B.C., with Sean Whyte kicking a pair of field goals.
Backup quarterback Jack Coan scored on a pair of short touchdown runs for the Riders, with kicker Michael Hughes booting two field goals, two converts and a single.
The Lions opened the scoring just 26 seconds in, when Rourke and Eberhardt hooked up on a 63-yard TD. The convert failed, leaving B.C. with a 6-0 lead.
The Riders responded with a long drive, culminating in Coan’s first short TD. Hughes added the convert to give the Riders a 7-6 lead.
The next B.C. drive stalled after a sack, and Whyte kicked a 49-yard field goal to put B.C. up 9-7.
In the second quarter, Hughes put the Riders back ahead 10-9 after a 28-yard field goal, with punter Carl Meyer tying it up for B.C. with a long single.
Another Coan one-yard TD midway through the quarter restored Saskatchewan’s lead at 16-10, with Hughes adding a convert and then a single on the kickoff to make it 18-10.
After Nelson Lokombo intercepted a Rourke pas, the Lions quickly got it back when Riders QB Jake Maier was picked off by Jackson Findlay.
That led to a 14-yard Whyte field goal and it was 18-13 at the half.
Midway through the third quarter, Rourke found Overhardt for a 10-yard touchdown, but the Lions failed on the two-point conversion to lead 19-18.
Early in the fourth, Hughes put the Riders up 21-19 with a 42-yard field goal.
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With 4:11 to play, a scrambling Rourke shovelled a pass to Hatcher in the end zone, and he held on for the winning touchdown, then added a two-point convert and the Lions ran out the clock to make the final 27-21.
NOTES: Eberhardt finished with four catches for 101 yards, while Hatcher had seven grabs for 75 yards. Tommy Nield had seven catches for 75 yards to pace the Riders… Rourke finished the year with 5,290 passing yards, six behind Bo Levi Mitchell of Hamilton… Hatcher led the league with 1,688 yards receiving… B.C’s Mathieu Betts led the league in sacks with 15, while Micah Awe was tops in tackles with 117.