National Sports

HOUSTON — Matt Chapman had a home run and a double to extend his hot start to the season and Chris Bassitt carried a shutout in the seventh inning as the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Houston Astros 4-2 on Tuesday night.

PETERBOROUGH, Ont. — Brennan Othmann scored at 18:45 of the third period to snap a 2-2 tie and the Peterborough Petes edged the visiting Ottawa 67's to take a 2-1 lead in their best-of-seven Ontario Hockey League playoff series on Tuesday night.

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MONTREAL — CF Montreal cruised to their first win in three games, beating the Vaughan Azzurri 2-0 on Tuesday evening to advance to the Canadian Championship quarterfinals.

EDMONTON — History repeating itself is the next goal for the Edmonton Oilers. A pair of squandered two-goal leads in a 4-3 overtime loss to the Los Angeles Kings isn't how the Oilers intended to open their first-round playoff series.

The last time Patrice Gheisar was in the Canadian Championship, he was coaching Ontario's Vaughan Azzurri against the CPL's HFX Wanderers FC.

DALLAS (AP) — Stars veteran center Joe Pavelski was not at the arena for a team meeting Tuesday, and his status for Game 2 and beyond against the Minnesota Wild was uncertain after a massive hit that took him out of the series-opening loss midway thr

Canada will open this summer's Gold Cup in Toronto against a yet-to-be decided qualifying team before heading to Houston to complete Group D play against Guatemala and Cuba.

OTTAWA — A cheer athlete and athlete support person, has been handed a lifetime ban for multiple anti-doping rule violations, the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport announced Tuesday. The ban is retroactive to March 13.

Canadian star centre Zach Edey declared for the NBA draft on Tuesday. Edey averaged a career-best 22.3 points, 12.9 rebounds and 2.1 blocks across 34 games in a breakout junior season for the Purdue Boilermakers.