In University Sports,
Football: The X-Men fell 36-16 to the Mount Allison Mounties.
Pre-season Hockey: X-Men crushed UPEI 9-2, while the X-Women were edged out 4-3 by UPEI.
Basketball: X-Women outscored Mount Saint Vincent 70-67 in a pre-season match.
Baseball: STFX X-Men lost the lead late in a 6-4 defeat to the DAL Tigers on Saturday in extra innings of their first game of a double header. In the second game STFX walked off DAL 4-3 in the bottom of the seventh inning. StFX is now 4-6 in league play and will travel to UNB today to try to get back to 0.500. Next weekend is X homecoming, where X will host Holland College on Saturday at 1 and 3:30pm and UNB on Sunday at 12 and 2:30pm.
Today, both X soccer teams host Moncton at St. FX Stadium – the women at 1, the men at 3:15.
Maritime Hockey League: Pictou County Weeks Crushers fell 3-2 to South Shore in Lunenberg.
The Cape Breton West Islanders were edged out 5-4 by the Steele Subaru Major Midgets. The two teams tangle again in Port Hood at Noon today.
The Weeks Major Midgets fared no better at home, getting shut out 4-0 by Cole Harbour.
The Novas were victorious over Kings Mutual at the Antigonish Arena, finishing 5-2. The Wearwell Major Bantam Bombers shutout the Dartmouth Whalers 3-0 at the Wellness Centre.
Today, the Novas are in Port Hawkesbury to face Dartmouth at 12:30. The Bombers host the Gulls at the Wellness Centre at 11:30 am.
It was a blowout for the Northern AAA Subway Selects, as the ladies shut out Edza West Reds 11-0 at the Wellness Centre on Saturday. The teams play again at Noon today.
The Cabot Highlanders lost a close 2-1 decision to the Basin Armada at the BMO Centre on Saturday. The teams play again at 3:15 this afternoon.
In Junior Hockey, the Pictou County Scotians are in Eskasoni to tangle with the Junior Eagles at 2pm.
Cole Butcher won his fourth race of the Parts for Trucks Pro Stock Tour season in the Atlantic Oliver Tire 200 at Scotia Speedworld. In a wild scramble on a final restart with four laps to go, Russell Smith Jr. and Chris Hughes picked up their first podium finishes of the season taking second and third. Dylan Blenkhorn finished 11th in the season finale but it was enough to clinch his first Parts for Trucks Pro Stock Tour Series Championship. Blenkhorn entered the race 23 points ahead of Jonathan Hicken, who finished directly behind the No. 67 in the finale. Donald Chisholm of Antigonish finished in 17th place.
The B-C Lions kept their faint playoff hopes alive, posting a gritty 25-23 win over the visiting Montreal Alouettes. Mike Reilly had 309 passing yards, a touchdown and an interception for the Lions. Montreal had a chance to win it at the end of the game but was stuffed at the goal line by the B-C defence.
Now the real fun begins for Cody Fajardo and the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Fajardo threw three T-D passes and ran for another as Saskatchewan clinched a playoff berth with a convincing 41-16 win over the Toronto Argonauts. The Roughriders can determine where they finish in the West Division as their final five regular-season games will be versus conference rivals.
A couple former Oilers came back to haunt Edmonton. Tobias Rieder scored twice against his former team and Milan Lucic added one of his own against the club that traded him in the summer as the Flames beat the Oilers 3-2 in Calgary. it was the final pre-season game for both sides.
Sidney Crosby left the Pittsburgh Penguins’ pre-season finale against Buffalo in the first period after appearing to take a shot off his skate. Crosby played on 6:42 before leaving. Coach Mike Sullivan said Crosby was “being evaluated.” The Sabres won the game 3-2 in a shootout.
Houston Astros ace Justin Verlander has become the 18th major league pitcher to reach 3,000 career strikeouts. The 36-year-old right-hander entered tonight’s game against the Los Angeles Angels needing six Ks to reach the mark. He achieved the milestone in the fourth inning when he got Kole Calhoun swinging at a slider. Houston went on to win 6-3.
Teoscar Hernandez hit a leadoff homer to spark the Blue Jays’ three-run first in a 4-1 win over the Tampa Bay Rays at Rogers Centre. Randal Grichuk also contributed to the first-inning rally by lacing an R-B-I triple before scoring on a single by Rowdy Tellez.
Saturday’s Games
CFL
Edmonton 21 Ottawa 16
Saskatchewan 41 Toronto 16
B.C. 25 Montreal 23
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NHL Pre-season
Boston 8 Chicago 2
Buffalo 3 Pittsburgh 2 (SO)
Dallas 4 Colorado 3 (SO)
N.Y. Islanders 4 N.Y. Rangers 2
Montreal 4 Ottawa 3 (OT)
Toronto 5 Detroit 0
Florida 1 Tampa Bay 0 (SO)
Calgary 3 Edmonton 2
Anaheim 2 Arizona 1
MLB
American League
Baltimore 9 Boston 4
Minnesota 4 Kansas City 3
Chicago White Sox 7 Detroit 1 (1st game)
Toronto 4 Tampa Bay 1
Texas 9 N.Y. Yankees 4
Oakland 1 Seattle 0
Houston 6 L.A. Angels 3
Detroit 4 Chicago White Sox 3 (2nd game)
National League
L.A. Dodgers 2 San Francisco 0
Philadelphia 9 Miami 3
N.Y. Mets 3 Atlanta 0
Chicago Cubs 8 St. Louis 6
Colorado 3 Milwaukee 2 (10 innings)
Arizona 6 San Diego 5
Cincinnati 4 Pittsburgh 2 (12 innings)
Interleague
Washington 10 Cleveland 7
Sunday’s Games – All times Eastern
NFL
Carolina at Houston, 1 p.m.
Cleveland at Baltimore, 1 p.m.
Kansas City at Detroit, 1 p.m.
Oakland at Indianapolis, 1 p.m.
L.A. Chargers at Miami, 1 p.m.
Washington at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m.
Tennessee at Atlanta, 1 p.m.
New England at Buffalo, 1 p.m.
Seattle at Arizona, 4:05 p.m.
Tampa Bay at L.A. Rams, 4:05 p.m.
Jacksonville at Denver, 4:25 p.m.
Minnesota at Chicago, 4:25 p.m.
Dallas at New Orleans, 8:20 p.m.
NHL Pre-season
Chicago at Eisbaren, 1:30 p.m.
Washington at Carolina, 1:30 p.m.
Winnipeg at Minnesota, 2 p.m.
St. Louis at Columbus, 5 p.m.
San Jose at Vegas, 8 p.m.
MLB
American League
Baltimore (TBD) at Boston (Rodriguez 19-6), 3:05 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 11-8) at Texas (Lynn 15-11), 3:05 p.m.
Houston (Cole 19-5) at L.A. Angels (Peters 4-3), 3:07 p.m.
Tampa Bay (Snell 6-7) at Toronto (Buchholz 1-5), 3:07 p.m.
Detroit (Turnbull 3-16) at Chicago White Sox (TBD), 3:10 p.m.
Oakland (Roark 10-9) at Seattle (Dunn 0-0), 3:10 p.m.
Minnesota (Perez 10-7) at Kansas City (Lopez 4-9), 3:15 p.m.
National League
Cincinnati (Bauer 11-13) at Pittsburgh (Williams 7-8), 3:05 p.m.
L.A. Dodgers (Hill 4-1) at San Francisco (Bumgarner 9-9), 3:05 p.m.
Miami (Alcantara 5-14) at Philadelphia (TBD), 3:05 p.m.
Atlanta (Soroka 13-4) at N.Y. Mets (Syndergaard 10-8), 3:10 p.m.
Milwaukee (Houser 6-7) at Colorado (Hoffman 2-6), 3:10 p.m.
San Diego (TBD) at Arizona (Walker ), 3:10 p.m.
Chicago Cubs (TBD) at St. Louis (TBD), 3:15 p.m.
Interleague
Cleveland (Clevinger 13-3) at Washington (Ross 3-4), 3:05 p.m.
MLS
Toronto FC at Chicago, 5 p.m.
Orlando City at Cincinnati, 5 p.m.
Philadelphia at Columbus, 5 p.m.
Atlanta at Montreal, 5 p.m.
New York City FC at New England, 5 p.m.
D.C. United at New York, 5 p.m.
FC Dallas at Colorado, 7:30 p.m.
Vancouver at LA Galaxy, 7:30 p.m.
Los Angeles FC at Minnesota, 7:30 p.m.
Houston at Real Salt Lake, 7:30 p.m.
Seattle at San Jose, 7:30 p.m.
Portland at Sporting Kansas City, 7:30 p.m.