The Calgary Stampeders’ season came to an end on Sunday afternoon at Edmonton’s Commonwealth Stadium with a 33-19 loss to the Eskimos in the Western Division Semi-Final.

The Eskimos advance to face the BC Lions in the West final next week in Vancouver.

The game turned in the second quarter as untimely errors, including a fumble and a contacting-the-kicker penalty, led to a pair of Edmonton touchdowns.

“We ran the ball very, very well,” said Stampeders head coach and general manager John Hufnagel, who saw his running back Jon Cornish run for 127 yards. “But we had the two turnovers that prevented good things from happening. We just weren’t making some plays, It was a mxiture of protection breaking down or a bad throw. Just things you can’t do against a good football team.”

With the Stamps in Edmonton territory, quarterback Drew Tate mishandled the ball and allowed Damaso Munoz to recover the fumble and run 77 yards for a touchdown that gave Edmonton a 10-8 lead.

At the end of the first half, the Eskimos were punting the ball away but Junior Turner made contact with punter Damon Duval, an infraction that gave Edmonton a first down. The Eskimos capitalized with a drive that ended with a four-yard touchdown pass to Jason Barnes.

In between those two scores, a 56-yard reception by Adarius Bowman set up Jerome Messam’s seven-yard touchdown run.

Calgary led 8-3 after one quarter thanks to a six-yard touchdown run by Cornish. The major was set up by a 58-yard reception by Romby Bryant.

The rest of the first-half scoring consisted of two Burke Dales punt singles for the Stamps and a Duval punt rouge and a 38-yard Derek Schiavone field goal for Edmonton.

There were more kicking points in the third quarter as Calgary’s Rene Paredes booted field goals of 52 and 42 yards while Duval picked up a punt single for the Eskimos.

A Dales single and a 23-yard Paredes field goal in the first six minutes of the fourth quarter cut the Eskimos’ lead to seven points but Calgary could get no closer.

Calvin McCarty sealed the result with a one-yard touchdown run with 1:02 to play.