{"id":12823,"date":"2019-11-18T09:16:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T13:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=12823"},"modified":"2019-11-18T09:16:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T13:16:41","slug":"jones-ti-cats-headed-to-grey-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=12823","title":{"rendered":"Jones, Ti-Cats headed to Grey Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>HAMILTON, ONT.<\/strong>: A Fall River Dragons football alum is heading to the Grey Cup final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brian\n Jones, a Grand Lake area product, and his Hamilton Ti-Cats defeated the\n Edmonton Eskimos 36-16 in the Eastern final on Nov. 17, advancing to \nthe Grey Cup championship on Nov. 24 in Calgary, Alta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ti-Cats\n led 13-0 after the first and 23-13 at half-time, before scoring 13 \npoints compared to three in the final two quarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was listed as getting in on special teams action in the Eastern final game, according to the CFL stats on its website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jones has previously won the Grey Cup with the Toronto Argonauts two years ago, before being dealt to Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was signed by Hamilton at the start of the year as a free agent, before he was released in late June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\n Ti-Cats re-signed him Aug. 5 to the practice roster. Jones made the \nmove to the active roster where he has been a mainstay for the bulk of \nthe past three months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hamilton will face the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the Grey Cup. TSN will televise the game live beginning at 7 p.m. Atlantic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAMILTON, ONT.: A Fall River Dragons football alum is heading to the Grey Cup final. Brian Jones, a Grand Lake area product, and his Hamilton Ti-Cats defeated the Edmonton Eskimos 36-16 in the Eastern final on Nov. 17, advancing to the Grey Cup championship on Nov. 24 in Calgary, Alta. The Ti-Cats led 13-0 after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[283,284,285,381,889,597],"class_list":["post-12823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-brian-jones","tag-cfl","tag-dragons-football","tag-grand-lake","tag-grey-cup","tag-hamilton-ti-cats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}