CALGARY – A 62-yard field goal by Rene Paredes, for the longest of his career, with two seconds remaining gave the Calgary Stampeders a 40-38 win over the visiting Ottawa Redblacks in the CFL on Saturday.
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goal → remain → Saturday
Quincy Vaughn scored a pair of short-yardage rushing touchdowns and Tevin Jones and Jalen Philpot each caught touchdown passes for Calgary (6-8), which stayed in the playoff conversation, albeit in last place in the West Division.
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which → score → Division
Paredes also produced field goals from 57, 23 and 19 yards, as well as four convert points in front of an announced 20,113 at McMahon Stadium.
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Paredes → produce → Stadium
Quarterback McLeod Bethel-Thompson, in his first start for Ottawa this season, threw five touchdown passes and Keelan White caught three of them as the Redblacks fell to 0-13 on the season.
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Redblacks → throw → season
The Redblacks became just the second team in CFL history to start a season with 13 straight losses after the Shreveport Pirates in 1994.
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Redblacks → become → 1994
Justin Hardy’s touchdown catch with 72 seconds remaining and Brett Lauther’s convert point gave the Redblacks at 38-37 lead.
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catch → remain → lead
Kalil Pimpleton caught a touchdown pass in the third quarter to cut Calgary’s lead to a field goal heading into the fourth quarter.
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Pimpleton → catch → quarter
Lauther missed a field-goal attempt from 43 yards, but was good from 37 yards and added four convert points.
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Lauther → miss → points
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Bethel-Thompson, 38, completed 27 of 48 pass attempts for 379 yards and was intercepted once.
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Thompson → get → yards
He was intercepted for a fifth time in five games after a clean sheet in his first eight games this season.
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He → intercept → games
Adams went down clutching his left ankle after contact with one of his offensive lineman early in the third quarter.
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Adams → go → quarter
He returned to play the next series, however, and orchestrated a seven-play, 57-yard touchdown drive finished by Vaughn for Calgary’s 24-14 lead.
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He → return → lead
But Bethel-Thompson connected with Pimpleton on a 28-yard catch and run to score.
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Thompson → connect → catch
Lauther and Paredes traded field goals early in the fourth quarter.
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Lauther → trade → quarter
Bethel-Thompson threw to White at Calgary’s nine-yard line and the 24-year-old from North Vancouver, B.C., ran the ball in for a four-point lead.
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old → throw → lead
But the Stampeders countered with a 63-yard march that concluded with Philpot’s 26-yard catch in the end zone to re-take the lead 34-31.
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that → counter → lead
Zy Alexander picked off a Bethel-Thompson throw on the Redblack’s subsequent drive that bounced out of Hardy’s hands to give Calgary the ball on Ottawa’s 23-yard line.
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that → pick → line
The Stampeders managed only a field goal to lead by six points with just over two minutes to play.
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Stampeders → manage → minutes
Their defence thought Ottawa turned the ball over on downs on the Redblacks’ next drive, but Ottawa kept the drive alive on a successful pass interference challenge by coach Ryan Dinwiddie.
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Ottawa → think → Dinwiddie
Bethel-Thompson threw 15 yards to Hardy for a one-point lead.
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Thompson → throw → lead
The game was left to the leg of Paredes after Calgary’s offence struggled to push deep into Ottawa territory.
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offence → leave → territory
Calgary was up 17-14 at halftime after Adams aired the ball downfield to Jones for a 60-yard touchdown with 36 seconds remaining.
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Adams → air → seconds
Ottawa led for the first time in the game with a minute left in the first half.
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Ottawa → lead → half
Bethel-Thompson found White in the end zone a second time in a three-minute span with a 25-yard throw for a 14-10 lead.
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Thompson → find → lead
Calgary’s Paredes drilled a low, hard kick 57 yards with the wind behind him for a field goal.
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Paredes → drill → goal
After failing to cash a second-quarter interception of Adams into points and then turning the ball over on downs on Calgary’s 11-yard line, Ottawa scored just inside the three-minute warning when Bethel-Thompson threw 19 yards to White in the end zone
The host Stampeders scored on their first possession with an 11-play, 66-yard march capped by Vaughn’s one-yard plunge.
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Stampeders → fail → plunge
Temperature at kickoff was C 22 with winds gusting to 44 km/h.
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The Redblacks host the Stampeders next Saturday in the second game of a home and home.
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Redblacks → guste → home
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 19, 2026.
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report → publish → Press
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