LOCAL SPORTS
U15: In provincial playdowns last night at the Wellness Centre, the Wearwell Bombers shutout the Gulls 6-0. Action begins this morning with the Gulls vs the Bandits at 10 am, followed by the Bombers vs the Wildcats at 1.
U15AAA Female: The Quad County Whitecaps went 1-1 in tournament action on Saturday at the Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre, defeating Metro West Force Red 2-0, but taking a 7-2 loss to Metro West Force Blue. The league final starts this morning at 11, with Metro West Force Red facing off with the Fundy-Highland Stars.
U16 AAA: The Cabot Highlanders went 1-1 on Saturday at the provincial tournament in Truro, defeating the Fundy Thunder 3-2, but falling to the Voyageurs 3-1. The Highlanders & Voyageurs meet again in this morning’s championship final – game time is 10 am.
U18 Major: It went the full 5 games, but in the end the Halifax Macs are the league champs, defeating the Weeks Majors 3-2 last night at the Halifax Forum.
Junior B: The Antigonish Bulldogs will have to continue to wait to find out who their opponents will be in the league finals. The South Shore Lumberjacks defeated the Capstone Colts 4-2 to take it to a deciding Game 7, which will take place Wednesday night at Shearwater Arena.
Rural League: Game 4 of the series final was a 6-2 victory for the County Outlaws over the Heatherton Warriors, tying the series at 2-2. Game 5 is Saturday night at 7 at the Arena.
NATIONAL SPORTS
Leon Draisaitl’s second goal of the game, scored at 2:23 of overtime, lifted the Edmonton Oilers to a 3-2 victory over the Calgary Flames. Viktor Arvidsson also scored for the Oilers, while Brayden Pachal and Yegor Sharangovich scored for the Flames. Nazem Kadri had two assists for Calgary.
Artemi Panarin and Adam Fox both scored twice and the visiting New York Rangers beat the San Jose Sharks 6-1. J-T Miller had two assists for the Rangers, who moved two points ahead of the idle Montreal Canadiens for the final wild-card berth in the East. Cam Lund scored a late power-play goal for the Sharks.
Brad Jacobs and his Canadian teammates are off to a great start at the B-K-T World Men’s Curling Championship in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Jacobs and his Calgary-based team defeated Japan’s Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi 7-3 in Saturday’s opening draw, then posted a 7-5 win over Germany’s Marc Muskatewitz in the evening draw. Canada will play South Korea today.
C-F Montreal got a goal from Dante Sealy in the 51st minute and salvaged a 1-1 draw at Soldier Field over the host Chicago Fire. Philip Zinckernagel scored for Chicago in the first half. The winless visitors picked up their second draw of the season to improve to 0-4-and-2. The Fire, sitting fourth in the Eastern Conference, are now 3-1-and-2.
Canadian Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 33 points and the Oklahoma City Thunder routed the visiting Indiana Pacers 132-111 for their ninth straight N-B-A victory. Gilgeous-Alexander, the league’s leading scorer, made 10 of 23 field goals and 10 of 12 free throws. Tyrese Haliburton had 18 points for the Pacers, who had won six of their previous seven games.
Boston Red Sox designated hitter Rafael Devers has become the first Major League Baseball player to strike out 10 times in the first three games of a season. Devers went 0-for-4 with three more strikeouts in Boston’s 4-3 loss to the Texas Rangers. Devers is 0-for-12 this season, though did draw a bases-loaded walk in the second inning.
Saturday’s Scoreboard
NHL
Toronto 3 Los Angeles 1
Edmonton 3 Calgary 2 (OT)
Ottawa 3 Columbus 2
N.Y. Rangers 6 San Jose 1
Philadelphia 7 Buffalo 4
Tampa Bay 5 N.Y. Islanders 3
St. Louis 2 Colorado 1
New Jersey 5 Minnesota 2
Vegas 3 Nashville 1
Detroit 2 Boston 1
Dallas 5 Seattle 1
PWHL
Ottawa 2 Boston 1
MLB
American League
Baltimore 9 Toronto 5
L.A. Angels 1 Chicago White Sox 0
Kansas City 4 Cleveland 3
Texas 4 Boston 3
Athletics 4 Seattle 2
National League
Philadelphia 11 Washington 6
Miami 5 Pittsburgh 4 (12 innings)
Cincinnati 3 San Francisco 2
San Diego 1 Atlanta 0
Chicago Cubs 4 Arizona 3
Interleague
N.Y. Yankees 20 Milwaukee 9
St. Louis 5 Minnesota 1
Colorado 2 Tampa Bay 1
Houston 2 N.Y. Mets 1
L.A. Dodgers 7 Detroit 3
NBA
Orlando 121 Sacramento 91
Brooklyn 115 Washington 112
Miami 118 Philadelphia 95
Boston 121 San Antonio 111
Dallas 120 Chicago 119
Oklahoma City 132 Indiana 111
L.A. Lakers 134 Memphis 127
NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship
West Regional Championship – Florida 84 Texas Tech 79
East Regional Championship – Duke 85 Alabama 65
NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship – Regional Semifinals
At Birmingham, Ala.
TCU 71 Notre Dame 62
Texas 67 Tennessee 59
At Spokane, Wash.
UConn 82 Oklahoma 59
Southern Cal 67 Kansas St. 61
Major League Soccer
Vancouver 0 Toronto FC 0
CF Montréal 1 Chicago 1
New England 2 New York 1
Colorado 2 Charlotte FC 0
Atlanta 4 New York City FC 3
Columbus 2 D.C. United 1
Miami 2 Philadelphia 1
FC Dallas 2 Sporting Kansas City 1
Minnesota 2 Real Salt Lake 0
Cincinnati 2 Nashville 1
Orlando City 2 LA Galaxy 1
San Diego FC 3 Los Angeles FC 2
Seattle 1 San Jose 1
Sunday’s Games (All times Eastern)
NHL
Montreal at Florida, 1 p.m.
Vancouver at Winnipeg, 3 p.m.
Buffalo at Washington, 3 p.m.
Utah at Chicago, 4 p.m.
N.Y. Islanders at Carolina, 5 p.m.
Ottawa at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.
Toronto at Anaheim, 8 p.m.
San Jose at Los Angeles, 10 p.m.
PWHL
Toronto at Minnesota, 1 p.m.
MLB
American League
Baltimore (Sugano 0-0) at Toronto (Bassitt 0-0), 1:37 p.m.
Cleveland (Bibee 0-0) at Kansas City (Wacha 0-0), 2:10 p.m.
L.A. Angels (Kochanowicz 0-0) at Chicago White Sox (Martin 0-0), 2:10 p.m.
Boston (Fitts 0-0) at Texas (deGrom 0-0), 2:35 p.m.
Athletics (Sears 0-0) at Seattle (Woo 0-0), 4:10 p.m.
National League
Philadelphia (Nola 0-0) at Washington (Parker 0-0), 1:35 p.m.
Pittsburgh (Heaney 0-0) at Miami (Meyer 0-0), 1:40 p.m.
San Francisco (Ray 0-0) at Cincinnati (Martinez 0-0), 1:40 p.m.
Chicago Cubs (Boyd 0-0) at Arizona (Rodriguez 0-0), 4:10 p.m.
Atlanta (Smith-Shawver 0-0) at San Diego (Pivetta 0-0), 7:10 p.m.
Interleague
Milwaukee (Civale 0-0) at N.Y. Yankees (Stroman 0-0), 1:35 p.m.
Colorado (Feltner 0-0) at Tampa Bay (Bradley 0-0), 1:40 p.m.
Minnesota (Ober 0-0) at St. Louis (Pallante 0-0), 2:15 p.m.
NBA
L.A. Clippers at Cleveland, 3:30 p.m.
Portland at New York, 6 p.m.
Atlanta at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.
Charlotte at New Orleans, 7 p.m.
Detroit at Minnesota, 7 p.m.
Golden State at San Antonio, 7 p.m.
Toronto at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m.
Houston at Phoenix, 9 p.m.
NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship
Midwest Regional – Houston vs. Tennessee, 2:20 p.m.
South Regional – Auburn vs. Michigan St., 5:05 p.m.
NCAA Women’s Basketball Regional Championships
At Birmingham, Ala. – South Carolina vs. Duke, 1 p.m.
At Spokane, Wash. – UCLA vs. LSU, 3 p.m.
Major League Soccer
Austin FC at St Louis City, 2:15 p.m.
Houston at Portland, 7 p.m.
