Hamilton Tiger-Cats one win away from securing a CFL playoff spot – Hamilton | The Canadian News

The suddenly hot Hamilton Tiger-Cats will try to keep a couple of streaks, as well as their hopes for division titles, alive when they host the BC Lions at Tim Hortons Field on Friday night.

Winners of two straight games in which they have outscored their opponents 71-26, the Ticats have won their last three games against the Lions dating back to the 2018 season.

CHML’s coverage of Friday’s game begins with the pregame show at 6 pm, kick-off is at 7 pm After the game, see The fifth trimester at CHML, 900chml.com and on the CHML Facebook page.

Hamilton (6-5) will secure a playoff spot with a win over BC (4-7), and a Ticats win will officially eliminate a West Division team’s potential to secure a crossover position in the playoffs.

Jeremiah Masoli, who was named the CFL’s Top Performer in October, had a perfect quarterback rating in Hamilton’s 39-23 win over Edmonton last week and has thrown eight touchdowns and no interceptions in his last four starts.

Ticats quarterbacks have not thrown an interception in their last six games (196 pass attempts), two games short of the league record of eight shared by Toronto in the 2012 and 2013 seasons and the 2013 Saskatchewan Roughriders. .

The Lions are still thinking about what they might have been like after losing last week to the Argonauts in overtime.

BC kicker Jimmy Camacho missed his last four field goal attempts, including three shots in the fourth quarter against Toronto last week.

The CFL statistics department says it was the first time a kicker missed three shots in the fourth quarter dating back to 2005.

Going into Week 14, BC’s Michael Reilly is second in the CFL with 2,613 passing yards and third overall with 13 touchdown passes.

Reilly surpassed 34,000 passing yards in his career against the Argonauts and is 696 yards short of overtaking Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame QB Dieter Brock for 13th on the CFL’s all-time list.

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