LOCAL SPORTS
AGR Fastpitch: It’s a doubleheader in Heatherton this afternoon, with the Warriors taking on the Guysborough Broadhorns for a pair beginning at 1 pm.
NATIONAL SPORTS
It was Super Hero Night at Percival Molson Stadium and the capes fit perfectly for B-C Lions quarterback Nathan Rourke and veteran kicker Sean Whyte. Rourke passed for 352 yards and a touchdown, rushed for 43 yards and a T-D, and engineered a drive in the game’s final seconds ending with Whyte kicking a 43-yard field goal on the final play to lift the Lions to a 21-20 C-F-L win over the Montreal Alouettes.
Addison Barger hit a walk-off single in the 11th inning and the Toronto Blue Jays extended their season-best winning streak to seven by beating the visiting Los Angeles Angels 4-3. George Springer added a two-run home run, his fifth in five games, and Vladimir Guerrero Junior had three hits for the Blue Jays, who won their second straight in extra innings.
Fans at sold-out Stade Saputo wanted to see Lionel Messi perform. And one of the game’s greatest players ever didn’t disappoint, scoring a goal in each half and adding an assist to lead visiting Inter Miami to a 4-1 win over C-F Montreal in Major League Soccer actiont. Prince Owusu scored his fourth goal in four games for Montreal, which has just one home win in 10 outings this season.
The United States defeated Canada 65-53 to advance to Sunday’s final at the 2025 FIBA (fee-bah) women’s AmeriCup in Santiago, Chile. With the semifinal victory, the U-S basketball squad improved to 8-and-1 against Canada. Hannah Hidalgo led the U-S with 19 points, while Kayla Alexander led Canada with 10 points and 13 rebounds. The U-S will play Brazil in the championship game.
Napheesa Collier had 22 points and six rebounds, Courtney Williams added 15 points, and the league-leading Minnesota Lynx improved to 16-and-2 with an 82-71 win over the visiting Golden State Valkyries in W-N-B-A action. Tiffany Hayes scored 23 points and teammate Kayla Thornton had 13 points and 10 rebounds for the Valkyries, who slipped to 9-and-8.
Saturday’s Scoreboard
CFL
B.C. 21 Montreal 20
MLB
American League
Toronto 4 L.A. Angels 3 (11 innings)
Minnesota 6 Tampa Bay 5
Detroit 1 Cleveland 0
National League
St. Louis 8 Chicago Cubs 6
Philadelphia 5 Cincinnati 1
Miami 4 Milwaukee 2
Interleague
N.Y. Mets 12 N.Y. Yankees 6
Boston 10 Washington 3
Arizona 7 Kansas City 1
Baltimore 9 Atlanta 6 (10 innings)
Houston 6 L.A. Dodgers 4
Chicago White Sox 10 Colorado 3
Seattle 1 Pittsburgh 0
Texas 7 San Diego 4
San Francisco 7 Athletics 2
MLS
Miami 4 Montreal 1
Houston 4 San Diego 3
Orlando 2 Charlotte 2
Atlanta 0 DC United 0
Cincinnati 2 Chicago 1
Nashville 1 Philadelphia 0
Salt Lake 3 St. Louis 2
New York Red Bulls 1 San Jose 1
Portland 2 New England 1
Los Angeles FC at Austin, ppd.
WNBA
Los Angeles 89 Indiana 87
Minnesota 82 Golden State 71
Sunday’s Games (All times Eastern)
CFL
Ottawa at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
MLB
American League
L.A. Angels (Anderson 2-5) at Toronto (Gausman 6-6), 1:37 p.m.
Detroit (Skubal 10-2) at Cleveland (Williams 5-4), 1:40 p.m.
Tampa Bay (Rasmussen 7-5) at Minnesota (Ryan 8-4), 2:10 p.m.
National League
Cincinnati (Burns 0-1) at Philadelphia (Wheeler 8-3), 1:35 p.m.
Milwaukee (Woodruff 0-0) at Miami (Cabrera 3-2), 1:40 p.m.
St. Louis (Fedde 3-8) at Chicago Cubs (Boyd 8-3), 6:10 p.m.
Interleague
Baltimore (Rogers 1-0) at Atlanta (Holmes 4-7), 11:35 a.m.
Boston (Crochet 8-4) at Washington (Ogasawara 0-0), 1:35 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees (Fried 10-2) at N.Y. Mets (Devenski 0-0), 1:40 p.m.
Chicago White Sox (Smith 3-6) at Colorado (Dollander 2-9), 3:10 p.m.
Kansas City (Lorenzen 4-8) at Arizona (DeSclafani 0-0), 4:10 p.m.
Houston (TBD) at L.A. Dodgers (Sheehan 0-0), 4:10 p.m.
Pittsburgh (Skenes 4-7) at Seattle (Kirby 2-4), 4:10 p.m.
Texas (Leiter 4-5) at San Diego (TBD), 9:10 p.m.
San Francisco (Birdsong 3-3) at Athletics (Lopez 2-4), 10:05 p.m.
MLS
Columbus at Seattle, 5 p.m.
CONCACAF Gold Cup at Houston, Texas
United States vs. Mexico, 7 p.m.
WNBA
Seattle at New York, 1 p.m.
Las Vegas at Connecticut, 4 p.m.
Chicago at Minnesota, 7 p.m.
