National Sports

LANGFORD, B.C. — Sunday's women's rugby test match between Canada and visiting Italy will be a family affair for Sophie de Goede.

Thursday's Scoreboard CFL Montreal 40 Ottawa 33 B.C. 17 Hamilton 12 --- MLB American League Houston 3 N.Y. Yankees 2 (Game 1) Houston 7 N.Y. Yankees 5 (Game 2) Detroit 7 Oakland 2 (Game 1) Oakland 5 Detroit 2 (Game 2) --- National League L.A.

VANCOUVER — The B.C. Lions were tested Thursday but hung on for a 17-12 victory over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. Quarterback Nathan Rourke tossed for 250 yards with two touchdowns for the Lions (4-1).

GLENEAGLES, Scotland (AP) — Playing with a new set of golf clubs after his own ones failed to arrive from the United States, Glen Day never expected to be a contender at the Senior British Open this week.

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Noah Lyles crouched down, put his hands on his knees and glared at the clock.

EUGENE, Ore. — Canada's Aaron Brown says he plans to keep chasing that elusive individual medal. The 30-year-old from Toronto finished seventh in a sizzling 200 metres at the world track and field championships on Thursday.

OTTAWA — The Montreal Alouettes know it wasn't their best game -- but in the end, the only thing that mattered was the 40-33 win over the Ottawa Redblacks on Thursday night.

Canada's Sport Minister Pascale St-Onge is freezing Gymnastics Canada's funding until the national federation signs on with the new Office of Sports Integrity Commissioner.

TORONTO — The Saskatchewan Roughriders and Toronto Argonauts will complete their back-to-back series a day later than originally planned.

VANCOUVER — Former Vancouver Canuck Jake Virtanen has taken the stand in British Columbia Supreme Court to deny that he sexually assaulted a woman nearly five years ago.