National Sports

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.

Doug Mitchell certainly left his mark in whatever he did. The Calgary native, who's a member of six various sport halls of fame and served as commissioner of the CFL in the 1980s, has died. He was 83. The cause of death was not immediately known.