TORONTO – Henry Burris threw three touchdown passes to rally the Hamilton Tiger-Cats to a wild 36-24 win over the Toronto Argonauts in the East Division final Sunday afternoon.
Burris cut Toronto’s half-time lead to 24-17 with a late TD strike, then led Hamilton to a 27-24 advantage heading into the fourth. After watching Argos star quarterback Ricky Ray tear it up in the first half, Burris outduelled Ray in the second to lead Hamilton to its stirring victory.
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Burris drove Hamilton to set up Luca Congi’s 23-yard field goal to go ahead 27-24 entering the fourth. Burris’s 14-yard TD strike to Greg Ellingston capped a 68-yard march to open the second half that made it 24-24.
Burris was especially cool when Hamilton took the ball at its own 38 with 6:55 remaining. He marched the Ticats to the Toronto 14-yard line – including hitting Bakari Grant with a key 25-yard completion on second-and-19 – to set up Congi’s 20-yard field goal to make it 30-24 with 1:14 remaining.
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Toronto took over at its own 35 and Ray took the Argos to the Hamilton 44 before the hosts turned the ball over on downs with 53 seconds remaining. Marc Beswick rounded the scoring by recovering Chad Owens’ punt return fumble in the end zone on the game’s final play.
Hamilton advances to the Grey Cup game next Sunday in Regina against either the Calgary Stampeders or Saskatchewan Roughriders. The Ticats haven’t won the CFL title since ’99.
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