National Sports

'S-HERTOGENBOSCH — Carson Branstine upset women's top seed Liudmila Samsonova while fellow Canadian Gabriel Diallo downed men's eighth seed Jordan Thompson on Wednesday at the Libema Open grass-court tennis tournament. Branstine, ranked No.

TORONTO — Coach Jesse Marsch has a message for Vancouver ahead of Canada’s Gold Cup opener against Honduras next week: We need your support.

MONTREAL — Montreal's Lance Stroll has been cleared to race in this weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix after missing the Spanish GP due to pain in his hand and wrist.

EDMONTON — More often than not, lifelong Edmonton Oilers fan Jacob Golka can be seen on game nights with his back to the screen and his hands hard at work.

VICTORIA — Summer McIntosh came within a blink of an eye of breaking swimming’s oldest women’s world record at the Bell Canadian Swimming Trials on Tuesday night.

TORONTO — It was a draw, a loss and a win — all in one. But when the dust settled, Canada emerged victorious at the inaugural Canadian Shield Tournament.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Andrés Giménez and Alejandro Kirk each homered, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the St. Louis Cardinals 10-9 on Tuesday night. Chris Bassitt (7-3) gave up four runs on six hits in seven innings for the Blue Jays.

The Professional Women’s Hockey League is expanding to Vancouver and to Seattle next season, giving the PWHL eight teams and its first two west of Minnesota.

"It was not the game we wanted to bring," Oilers centre Leon Draisaitl said. "It was certainly far away from our best. Just flush it out a little bit and start getting ready."

HALIFAX — The Halifax Tides have finally hit the win column in the Northern Super League.