National Sports

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — The Seattle Thunderbirds, no stranger to winning crucial games at the Sandman Centre this season, won another one big one Saturday by defeating the Peterborough Petes 6-3 in the Memorial Cup opener for both teams.

HAMILTON — After two Grey Cups and two most outstanding player awards in a decade with the Calgary Stampeders, all Bo Levi Mitchell needed was two series of downs to exhibit he is ready to perform for his new team, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

EDMONTON — Tyrrell Pigrome’s first taste of CFL action was pretty sweet.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — PGA Tour rookie Harry Hall intended to slip on his Vegas Golden Knights jersey while playing Colonial's par-3 13th hole Saturday. That plan changed after falling out of the lead because of consecutive double bogeys.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Willi Castro had his first career multihomer game, Matt Wallner homered among his career-high four hits, and the Minnesota Twins held off the Toronto Blue Jays 9-7 on Saturday.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Milwaukee Bucks are finalizing a deal to make Adrian Griffin their head coach after he spent the last five seasons as a Toronto Raptors assistant, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press.

PARIS — Lionel Messi helped Paris Saint-Germain clinch a record 11th French league title on Saturday, and broke another scoring record in the process.

GÖTZIS, Austria — Damian Warner leads the field with 4,531 points after Day 1 at the Hypo Meeting in Götzis, Austria.

TAMPERE, Finland — The Canadian men's international hockey team scored three times in the third period to beat Latvia 4-2 in the world championship semifinal.

Consider celebrated hockey players Marie-Philip Poulin and Laura Stacey teammates for life.