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“I want to come out and do my best so we can get the win at the end of the day.”

Begelton’s two fourth-quarter catches behind the Als defence — of 56 and 69 yards — shook up what was otherwise a push-and-pull game with neither team seemingly wanting control of the night.

And the pair of trips to paydirt gave the Stamps an 11-point advantage until a sudden and dramatic comeback by the Alouettes in the final 100 seconds.

Tied up 28-28, the teams went to overtime, and it was Begelton getting the TD again on a seven-yard pass just inside the endzone, tying a club record for most majors in a game.

But a second OT didn’t go as planned in the Stamps loss.

Strangely enough, the night might’ve ended in regulation in favour of the Stampeders on a fifth Begelton TD, but either the Alouettes defence or the officials took one away from him in the first half, when it looked like he had held possession of the ball long enough but was ruled incomplete after being knocked out of his hands.

“I’m not going to comment on that,” added Begelton with a glare. “They called it incomplete.”

PRE-GAME MELEE

The teams met a mid-field for a full-on melee in warmup that led to a pair of Stampeders getting punched.

Linebacker Wynton McManis didn’t dress but got into it with former Stampeders cornerback Tommie Campbell and took a punch that bloodied his mouth.

And Stamps running back Don Jackson then was on the receiving end of what looked like a sucker punch from the Alouettes’ Jarnor Jones.