National Sports

OTTAWA — Miranda Smith scored the game-winning goal to help the Ottawa Gee-Gees to a 2-1 victory over the Trinity Western Spartans on Sunday in the Canadian university women's soccer championship final.

BEIJING — Former BYU star Jimmer Fredette scored 75 points in a Chinese Basketball Association game Sunday, the last 40 in the fourth quarter of the Shanghai Sharks' 137-136 loss to the Beikong Fly Dragons.

HAMILTON — Jeremiah Masoli showed Sunday why he's the East Division nominee for the CFL's outstanding player award. Masoli threw three first-half touchdowns to lead the Hamilton Tiger-Cats to a lopsided 48-8 East Division semifinal win over the B.C.

HAMILTON — Smarting from a lopsided 48-8 playoff loss, Wally Buono found one positive as he left the field for the last time Sunday.

MANCHESTER, England — However strong Manchester City looks in its title defence , Pep Guardiola's leaders are facing more competition than anticipated in the Premier League.

REGINA — Roughriders quarterback Zach Collaros has been scratched from the West Division semifinal against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Canadian Brandon Bridge will get the start at QB and be backed up by David Watford and Drew Tate.

Montreal Impact attacking midfielder Ignacio Piatti, who scored 16 goals and added a career high 13 assists this season, has been voted to the MLS Best XI.

SAO PAULO — Five-time world champion Lewis Hamilton won the Brazilian Grand Prix on Sunday, helping his Mercedes team to take the Formula One constructors' title. The British driver finished 1.4 seconds ahead of Red Bull's Max Verstappen.

HAMILTON — The Hamilton Tiger-Cats had legendary wrestler Ric (The Nature Boy) Flair in their corner Sunday afternoon at the CFL Eastern semifinal.

One day after parting ways with Paul Rowley, the Toronto Wolfpack signed former Leeds Rhinos coach Brian McDermott. McDermott, a 48-year Englishman, is a decorated coach who helped fill Leeds' trophy case over eight years.