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MONTREAL — Anthony Calvillo threw for 421 yards and four touchdown passes, including three in the second quarter, to lead the Montreal Alouettes to a 43-13 win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Sunday.
Calvillo enjoyed his second 400-yard game of the season as the Alouettes ended a two-game skid, rebounding from a 44-21 loss to the Tiger-Cats on Labour Day at Ivor Wynne Stadium.
Montreal improved to 6-4 to move ahead of Hamilton, 5-5, into second place in the East Division.
Jamel Richardson caught seven passes for 113 yards, including his eighth touchdown. Brandon London got his first CFL touchdown reception and Kerry Watkins caught his first touchdown pass of the season.
Brandon Whitaker caught the first of Calvillo’s three second-quarter touchdown passes. Dahrran Diedrick rushed for a touchdown in the fourth and Whyte hit his second field goal of the game, his 26th of the season, with 5:26 remaining.
Hamilton’s Justin Medlock kicked three straight field goals late in the first half to draw the Tiger-Cats within 29-10, including a 57-yarder that tied a team record.
Medlock kicked a fourth field goal as time expired after missing out on another field goal late in the fourth, when his 42-yard attempt struck the right goal post.
Limited to a pair of defensive touchdowns six days earlier in Hamilton, the Alouettes’ offence generated a 29-1 lead 10:13 into the second quarter on the strength of four Calvillo touchdown strikes to four different receivers.
London was wide open in the end zone 10:47 in after Montreal opened the scoring with a single on Whyte’s missed 37-yard field goal attempt.
Calvillo hit Whitaker on another six-yard touchdown pass 21 seconds into the second quarter. The Alouettes extended their lead to 22-0 at 4:57 when Watkins caught his first touchdown pass of the season.
Wakins’ first touchdown reception of the season followed a Tiger-Cats single.
Medlock kicked a 35-yard field goal at 12:56 before tying the Hamilton record shared by Bernie Ruoff and Paul Osbaldiston, who kicked two 57-yarders with the Tiger-Cats, the most recent in Calgary on Oct. 13, 1997.
He added a 47-yard field goal 1.2 seconds before the end of the first half.
Diedrick scored his fifth touchdown of the season on a one-yard plunge 5:26 into the fourth quarter.
Montreal’s Dwight Anderson left the game with a muscle strain and did not return.
A moment of silence was observed by the crowd of 24,304 prior to the game in commemoration of the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the U.S. The Minstrels of Hope, a 12-girl choir from the Phillipines, performed a gorgeous a cappella rendition of “America The Beautiful” before they sang the Canadian national anthem.
