National Sports

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Molham Babouli had a hat trick and two assists as the Mississauga MetroStars thumped the Florida Tropics 10-0 on Saturday.

LONDON — For 45 minutes Chelsea was under siege, pinned back in its own half by Manchester City. With halftime approaching, Chelsea finally managed a shot from an unlikely source and broke through the impervious champions.

BEITOSTOELEN, Norway — Alex Harvey struggled to find the rhythm needed to be successful in a rare 30-kilometre individual start cross-country skate-ski distance race on Saturday at the World Cup in Beitostolen, Norway.

CALGARY — Alex Gough is still in demand on Canada's luge team after her ceremonial retirement run Saturday. Her heir apparent Kim McRae is leaning on Gough to help her balance an intense schedule of luge and school.

CALGARY — German luger Julia Taubitz earned her first World Cup win and Canada's Kim McRae claimed bronze Saturday on a Calgary track that defied its reputation as an easy slide.

SIGULDA, Latvia — Dave Greszczyszyn got his World Cup skeleton season off to a 15th place start on Saturday in Sigulda, Latvia. The 2018 Olympian from Brampton, Ont., clocked a two-run time of one minute 44.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Justin Douglas became Canada's all-time tries leader with a pair of tries Saturday in a 28-7 win over Wales at the HSBC Cape Town Sevens. Douglas had four tries on the day to take his career total to 126.

It will be deja-vu for Canada at the 2019 Women's World Cup in France after drawing two teams — the Netherlands and New Zealand — that it faced at the 2015 tournament on home soil.

TOMASZOW MAZOWIECKI, Poland — Canadians Heather McLean, Laurent Dubreuil and Antoine Gelinas-Beaulieu earned top 10 finishes in their respective distances on Saturday, the second day of the World Cup long-track speedskating event in Poland.

ST. MORITZ, Switzerland — Mikaela Shiffrin won a World Cup super-G on Saturday, confirming the slalom great's arrival as a pure speed racer and all-round threat. Shiffrin, who got her first career super-G win last weekend, was 0.