CFL.ca Staff

EDMONTON -- The B.C. Lions aren't going to get too wrapped up on how they won, only that they did.

Paul McCallum booted a 46-yard field goal with one minute remaining as the league-leading Lions won their third game in a row, getting past the Edmonton Eskimos 19-18 on Saturday.

Edmonton had taken an 18-16 lead with three minutes left when kicker Grant Shaw nailed a 40-yard field goal after a clutch 47-yard catch by Cary Koch.

But the Lions marched right back into the lead when McCallum was able to make up for a couple of earlier field goal misses in the second half and boot in the game-winning field goal to make it 19-18.

The Eskimos then turned over the ball on downs at their own 42, allowing the Lions to run out the clock.

"I wouldn't have had to make that last one if I had made the other two," said McCallum, who was four for six kicking three-pointers on the night. "I struggled a bit to find my rhythm. Maybe I was over-thinking things. I just need to go out there and kick the ball and not worry about it. I'm just glad my earlier misses didn't end up costing the team.

"We made it a bit harder on ourselves tonight, but this is a good character team and fortunately we came out with the win."

Quarterback Travis Lulay said getting the victory was more important than how they did it.

"They are not all easy," he said. "We were playing on the road and they jumped on us early. Hats off to our guys for continuing to fight and finding a way to get better. Obviously offensively you want to turn some of those three-point scores into sevens, but win by one point or by 20, we are walking out of here with a win and we feel good about that."

"It was a hard-fought football game. Those guys in Green and Gold played their tails off tonight and hit us in the mouth early, and for a lot of that football game we were reeling and obviously we'd like to turn some of those threes into sevens and find a way to score more touchdowns, but win by one or win by 20 we're happy to get out of here with a win."

The Lions finally made good on one of their many second-half chances when a 49-yard run by Andrew Harris turned into a six-yard TD pass from Lulay to Geroy Simon, his first TD catch of the season and 100th of his career. The two-point convert failed, leaving B.C. in front 16-15 with eight minutes to play to set up the back-and-forth finish.

"That's Geroy doing it in dramatic fashion, we're coming from behind in the fourth quarter", Lulay continued  Huge play, he got hit, spun  around, and did what he had to do in the endzone."

The Lions continue on the road next week as they travel to Regina to take on the Saskatchewan Roughriders next Saturday.

- With files from The Canadian Press