Boris Bede kicked a 32-yard field goal with 37 seconds left in the fourth quarter and Toronto Argonauts opened their season with a 23-20 win over the Calgary Stampeders Saturday.
Bede finished with two field goals and a single for the Argonauts , while quarterback McLeod Bethel-Thompson threw TD passes to Juwan Brescacin and Kurleigh Gittens Jr.also had a pair of two-point converts as John White IV ran for one and Eric Rogers hauled in a short toss from Bethel-Thompson, who completed 26-of-37 passes for 354 yards.
Playing in his 10th CFL season, all with the Stampeders , Rene Paredes kicked four field goals to give him 400 for his career.opened the scoring at 7:55 of the first quarter when Brescacin hauled in a nine-yard touchdown pass from Bethel-Thompson to cap off an impressive 12-play, 94-yard drive in front of 23,921 fans at McMahon Stadium.
Mitchell and the Stamps responded with a lengthy 17-play, 72-yard drive of their own that stalled on Toronto's 13-yard line. Parades then kicked a 20-yard field goal to give the Stamps their first points of the game.had a chance to build on their lead, but Bede missed a 58-yard field goal wide to the left. Sean Riley caught the ball in the end zone and ran it out to Calgary's 31-yard line.
After D.J. Killings recovered the fumble in the end zone, the Stamps started out an impressive drive of their own from their 20-yard line.
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