Evans throws career-high 5 TDs as Tiger-Cats upset Blue Bombers
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Dane Evans and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats were finally able to finish a game out.
Evans threw a career-high five touchdown passes as Hamilton earned a stunning 48-31 home win over Winnipeg on Saturday afternoon. But the Ticats offence was at its best in the fourth quarter after the Blue Bombers scored two touchdowns to pull to within 41-31.
"I just want the ball in my hands with the game on the line," Evans said. "I know this season has gone a couple of different ways a couple of times but as a competitor that's all you can ask.
"I told the guys in the huddle if we scored a touchdown it was over and I think everybody had that instinct about them."
Hamilton (4-9) snapped a three-game losing streak to take sole possession of third in the East Division, two points behind idle Montreal (5-7). The Ticats visit the Alouettes on Friday night.
"We just have to stay locked in," Evans said. "We definitely can't start thinking how great we are because Montreal will come out and punch us right in the face.
"The great thing is I don't think anyone in this locker room is going to do that. I think we're going to do as Hamilton always does, go right back to work and just be us again. This was not our Super Bowl or Grey Cup."
Winnipeg (12-2) suffered its first loss in four games and fell to 7-1 on the road.
Evans finished 25-of-32 passing for 327 yards, posting his most complete performance of the year before a Tim Hortons Field gathering of 22,288.
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"That [five TD passes) is just kind of what it took tonight to win," Evans said. "I'd be sitting right here telling you the same thing if we ran in five touchdowns.
"As long as we win, whatever it takes I'll do it. It felt good, I'm not going to lie to you but everybody on the team did it. I don't even know if I got hit, everybody was protecting their butts off."
But Evans and Hamilton have both struggled this year. The 28-year-old Texan came into the game having won just two-of-nine starts and leading the CFL in interceptions (13), fumbles (seven) and fumbles lost (six).
What's more, he hadn't played in three of Hamilton's previous four games (out for two, listed as third quarterback in the other) due to a right shoulder injury.
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