{"id":58356,"date":"2015-08-07T18:38:42","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T10:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=58356"},"modified":"2025-01-28T11:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T16:31:10","slug":"lulay-finds-harris-for-late-touchdown-as-lions-down-eskimos-26-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/08\/07\/lulay-finds-harris-for-late-touchdown-as-lions-down-eskimos-26-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Lulay finds Harris for late touchdown as Lions down Eskimos 26-23"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BC Lions Quarterback Travis Lulay (Photo from Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

VANCOUVER \u2013 The B.C. Lions cooled off the CFL’s hottest team on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Travis Lulay threw a 31-yard touchdown to Andrew Harris with 1:11 left in the fourth quarter as the Lions battled back from a 13-point halftime deficit to beat the Edmonton Eskimos 26-23.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust a great job of persevering by our team,\u201d said Lulay. \u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot of better football in us. I don\u2019t think we played our best football tonight, but the fact we didn\u2019t quit, we kept fighting and found a way to make the plays we needed to at the end, that’s huge.<\/p>\n

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Down 23-18 late, Lulay lobbed a pass up to Harris on a screen and go before connecting with Shawn Gore for a two-point conversion to give B.C. (3-3) a three-point edge over Edmonton (4-2), which saw its four-game winning streak come to an end.<\/p>\n

The Eskimos had one more chance with the ball, but instead of trying a 48-yard field goal on third down, Ronnie Yell picked off Matt Nichols\u2019 pass with 41 seconds left to seal it and snap the Lions’ two-game slide.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy hat\u2019s off to this team,\u201d said Lions head coach Jeff Tedfor.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey found a way to win. They stuck together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lulay finished 16-of-31 passing for 195 yards to go along with two TDs and two interceptions against the league\u2019s No. 1 defence, while Harris added 118 yards rushing on 20 carries.<\/p>\n

\u201cParticularly with where we\u2019ve been, the difference between 3-3 and 2-4, especially early in the season, at home, it\u2019s huge,\u201d said Lulay. \u201cIt\u2019s huge for us to find a way to get that done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Manny Arceneaux had the other touchdown for the Lions, who gave up 23 points in the first half before the defence shut the door to give the offence a chance despite repeated two-and-out drives.<\/p>\n

\u201cPhenomenal effort. You can\u2019t say enough about it,\u201d said Lulay. \u201cWe finally found a way over the hump because the defence kept giving us opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nichols finished 26 of 42 for 262 yards with touchdowns to Chad Simpson and Kenny Stafford and two interceptions for Edmonton, while Grant Shaw booted three field goals.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were down two scores in the second half, they came back and won the football game on their home turf,\u201d said Eskimos head coach Chris Jones. \u201cYou\u2019ve got to give kudos to their staff and their players.\u201d<\/p>\n

Edmonton\u2019s defence came in averaging 12.6 points against per game, and looked to have sealed the win when Aaron Grimes intercepted Lulay with 2:28 to go. But the Lions\u2019 defence, which came in ranked last in yards against, got a stop to give their offence one more chance.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think guys realized how good we can be when we hunker down,\u201d said B.<\/p>\n

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C. linebacker Solomon Elimimian. \u201cWe look at the second half, that\u2019s how it should be.\u201d<\/p>\n

B.C. trailed 23-10 at halftime, but drove the ball down the field on the first drive of the third quarter, culminating with Harris\u2019 one-yard plunge.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just have faith,\u201d said Harris, who also had four catches for 57 yards. \u201cAfter the first half a lot of teams would have folded tents. The morale was down, but we just stuck together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Richie Leone, who had a field goal in the second quarter for the Lions, added a punt single with about five minute to go in the fourth, the only other scoring in the half until Lulay hooked up with Harris late.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the hottest team in the league right now and for the most part I thought we handled them pretty well,\u201d said Harris. \u201cWe just stuck with it. I\u2019m so proud of the guys.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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