Bombers top Als in OT

LEWIS BECOMES ALL-TIME RECEPTION LEADER

Justin Medlock kicked his fourth field of the game in overtime as the Winnipeg Blue Bombers defeated the Montreal Alouettes 34-31 to extend their wining streak to five games on Thursday night.

Montreal slotback Nik Lewis caught 10 passes to set a CFL record with 1,031 career receptions, two more than B.C. Lions great Geroy Simon.

Regulation time ended at 23-23. Both teams got touchdowns and two-point conversions on their first possession in OT, but Darian Durant was picked off by Chris Randle on the Alouettes’ second try. That left an easy 38-yard boot for Medlock for the win.

The Alouettes erased a 10point Winnipeg lead in the final 5:07 of regulation time, with Boris Bede tying the game with a 48-yard field goal with nine seconds left on the clock. The final play saw the teams punt the ball back and forth as the Bombers tried to avoid giving up a single on the kickoff. The ball was kicked five times before it was run out of bounds.

Matt Nichols threw touchdown passes to Clarence Denmark and Julian Feoli-Gudino for the Bombers (7-2), whose winning run started with a wild 41-40 win over the Alouettes in Winnipeg on July 27.

George Johnson and Ernest Jackson caught touchdown passes and Bede booted three field goals for Montreal (3-6), which was coming off a 38-6 loss in Toronto last week.

The Bombers jumped on Montreal mistakes early for a 10-0 first quarter lead only to give it back in the second.

Winnipeg’s opening drive led to a Medlock 47-yard field goal.

A Randle interception gave Winnipeg the ball on the Montreal 54. Six plays later, Nichols found Denmark alone at the back of the end zone at 9:24.

A long Montreal drive produced Bede’s 19-yard boot 3:34 into the second quarter.