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Calgary Stampeders Jon Cornish (9) runs away from Edmonton Eskimos Otha Foster (L), Marcell Young (23) Aaron Grymes (36) and Gregory Alexandre (R) on his way to scoring a touchdown during the first half of the CFL's Western Final football game in Calgary, Alberta, November 23, 2014.TODD KOROL/Reuters

Calgary can cap a stellar season with a Grey Cup after beating the Edmonton Eskimos 43-18 in Sunday's West Division final.

The Stampeders take on the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the CFL's championship game Sunday in Vancouver. The Tiger-Cats punched their Grey Cup ticket with a 40-24 win over the Montreal Alouettes in the East Division final.

Calgary quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell threw a pair of touchdown strikes to Eric Rogers, completed scoring passes to Marquay McDaniel and Jon Cornish and ran the ball in for a major of his own.

Cornish scored his second major of the game on a two-yard run late in the fourth quarter. The CFL's leading rusher totalled 54 yards on 14 carries, but made his biggest impact on the game as a receiver. Cornish totalled 120 yards on four catches and one them for a touchdown.

With Edmonton limiting Calgary's yards on the ground early, Mitchell was a model of efficiency throwing for 284 yards and three touchdowns on just eight passes in the first half.

Winning the division and earning a bye week in the post-season helped Calgary get healthy on offence as Mitchell had multiple targets with which to work.

The 24-year-old Texan won his first career playoff start throwing for 336 yards and four touchdowns without an interception.

Edmonton starter Mike Reilly was 20-for-33 in passing for 216 yards. He threw touchdown passes to Paris Jackson and Adarius Bowman in the third quarter when he was injured on the last play. Backup Matt Nichols completed nine of 15 passes for 92 yards.

Calgary's win gives the Stampeders the chance to back up a 15-3 season with a title. The Stampeders went 15-3 three straight seasons from 1993 to 1995, but did not win the Grey Cup under Wally Buono.

Upset losses at home in the West final to Saskatchewan in 2010 and 2013 — when Calgary's records were 13-5 and 14-4 respectively — were deflating conclusions to outstanding campaigns.

Calgary won a Grey Cup in John Hufnagel's first year as head coach and general manager in 2008 with a 22-14 win over the Alouettes in Montreal. The Stampeders lost 35-22 to the host Toronto Argonauts in their one other appearance in 2012.

Weather will be a non-factor indoors at B.C. Place. The Stampeders will be the Grey Cup favourite against a team that was 9-9 in the regular season. Calgary was 2-0 versus Hamilton this season with scores of 10-7 and 30-20.

The temperature at Sunday's kickoff was zero under cloudy skies with a light wind out of the south. Attendance was announced at 31,004, but there was ample room in McMahon Stadium's stands.

Reilly can inflict damage with his legs, but his mobility was compromised by a late-season foot injury that's been reported as a broken bone.

Edmonton looked winded after Reilly was sacked by Stampeder linebacker Juwan Simpson late in the first half. The Esks quarterback remained in the game, however, to breathe life into the Edmonton offence.

The Esks scored back-to-back touchdowns in the third quarter to halve the deficit. Bowman scored on an 18-yard pass from Reilly at 11:49 and Jackson on a three-yard toss at 8:54. Reilly was taken by motorized cart to the visitors' dressing room early in the fourth quarter.

Mitchell and Rogers combined on their second touchdown early in the third quarter on a 30-yard pass to make it 36-4.

Calgary led 29-4 at halftime.

Mitchell found Rogers in the end zone on an 18-yard strike with 40 seconds remaining in the half. O'Neill booted a 42-yard field goal at 13:14.

After just 10 yards on four carries, Cornish took a shovel pass from Mitchell, broke an Aaron Grymes tackle and rumbled 78 yards to score at 6:10.

Calgary's Fred Bennett picked off Reilly early in the quarter and ran the ball back to Edmonton's 31-yard line. The Stampeders settled for a single point when Rene Paredes was wide on a 35-yard field-goal attempt.

The host took a 14-1 lead at 1:43 when Mitchell kept the ball on a two-yard plunge. The Calgary quarterback hit Simon Charbonneau for a 61-yard strike, augmented 15 yards by Odell Willis's roughing-the-passer penalty, to get to Edmonton's doorstep.

O'Neill put the Esks on the scoreboard with a 46-yard punt single late in the first quarter.

McDaniel blew by Edmonton linebacker Alonzo Lawrence into open field to score on a 46-yard passing play on Calgary's second possession of the game.

Notes: Calgary defensive tackle Charleston Hughes played in the first half for his first game action since Sept. 13, but did not appear in the second half . . . Edmonton's mayor Don Iveson will donate 100 pounds of food to Calgary's food bank in payment of a wager with Calgary counterpart Naheed Nenshi.

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