Aug
Jackson the hero in comeback win over Argos
Courtesy Vancouver Province:
Backup quarterback Jarious Jackson rallied the B.C. Lions off the bench with three touchdown passes in the second half to help his team record a 36-28 CFL victory over the Toronto Argonauts Friday.
Jackson had a very slow start in relief of injured B.C. starter Buck Pierce, but threw two scores to Paris Jackson and another to Emmanuel Arceneaux to reverse a 12-point deficit.
Jarious Jackson won the game for the Lions (3-4) after he had been pulled at the end of the first half. Jackson came in for starter Pierce, who was injured early in the game and did not return, but was lifted in favour of Travis Lulay.
The B.C. rookie lasted only three drives before he also was injured and Jackson was given a chance to rescue the outcome. He threw two touchdown passes to Paris Jackson and a third to Emmanuel Arceneaux to give the Lions a 28-26 lead before Sean Whyte hit a nine-yard field goal with eight seconds left.
Any momentum arising from the Lions’ impressive 35-20 win over the Saskatchewan Roughriders last week seemed to quickly evaporate when Pierce went out in the first quarter.
The B.C. starter, who was knocked out of a game earlier this season in Edmonton, suffered concussion-like symptoms when he was hit by Argos lineman Claude Harriott when he threw an interception and never moved off the Lions bench for the remainder of the first half.
The Argos started slow offensively under Toronto quarterback Cody Pickett, making his first start of the season. But Pickett eventually found Reggie McNeal with a five-yard pass in the end zone to help Toronto produce a 19-7 halftime lead.
Jackson led the Lions on only one sustained drive in the first half and was rewarded when Rolly Lumbala run in from a yard out.
The 32-year-old veteran got little else done and yielded to Lulay to start the second half, but the B.C. rookie only lasted three drives before he also was injured on a run.
Jackson returned and threw two touchdown passes to Paris Jackson. However, any time the Lions came close, Medlock restored order with another field goal. Four of Medlock’s kicks came from longer than 45 yards. Medlock has only missed one attempt in his first seven CFL games, coming when a 57-yard attempt against Winnipeg hit the goal post.
But Arceneaux’s touchdown at 11:22 put the Lions up to stay. Whyte’s field goal preceded an interception on the final play of the game by B.C.’s Ryan Phillips that ended the scoring.
