MONDAY SPORTS PAGE: SHOOTING STARS WIN CEBL

CEBL

Isiaha Mike’s near triple-double performance for the Scarborough Shooting Stars led the team to its first ever CEBL championship in an 82-70 win against the Calgary Surge.

The Scarborough, Ontario, native showed out for his hometown as he put up 22 points, nine rebounds, seven assists, and five steals. Not only did his all-around performance bring a title to his hometown, but it also earned Mike the honour of final’s Most Valuable Player. 

His supporting cast in this one unsurprisingly included Cat Barber, the team’s leading scorer all season. The guard led the game with 23 points to go along with his two rebounds and five assists, which were huge considering Barber and Mike combined to score over 50 per cent of the team’s points on the night.

They were joined by Kyree Walker who stepped up with his 17 points and four rebounds, and Gedi Juozapaitis who added 11 points off the bench. 

On the other side, Jordy Tshimanga led the way for Calgary by way of a 15-point, 15-rebound, double-double. Stef Smith also did what he could with his 14 points and five assists, but the guard, like the rest of his team struggled holding onto the ball as he committed a game-high five turnovers. Meanwhile Terry Henderson Jr. notched a season-high 11 points in the loss, scoring six of those points in the fourth quarter.

Scarborough won the game by 12 points despite making just two more shots from the field and one more three-pointer, and it was thanks to their stingy defence. They held Calgary to 38 per cent shooting from the field and 20 per cent from beyond the arch while limiting them to just 70 points. No team this post-season scored more than 74 points against the Shooting Stars as they held opponents to just 71.8 points per game.

(CEBL PR)

CFL

Quarterback Chad Kelly threw for four touchdowns and more than 400 yards as the Toronto Argonauts out-gunned the Ottawa Redblacks 44-31 in C-F-L action on Sunday. Kelly went 21-for-28 and DaVaris Daniels had three T-Ds and 180 yards receiving as the East-leading Argos improved to 7-and-1. The Redblacks slipped to 3-and-6.

NFL

Rookie Aidan O’Connell passed for 141 yards and a touchdown and the Las Vegas Raiders beat the visiting San Francisco 49ers 34-7 in N-F-L pre-season action on Sunday. O’Connell, third on the depth chart behind starter Jimmy Garoppolo and veteran Brian Hoyer, played the first three quarters. In New Orleans, Derek Carr threw a touchdown pass in his New Orleans pre-season debut and rookie Blake Grupe kicked a 31-yard field goal as time expired to give the Saints a 26-24 win over the Kansas City Chiefs.

MLB

Daulton Varsho homered and had five R-B-Is, Hyun Jin Ryu pitched five innings to win for the first time since returning from elbow surgery, and Toronto crushed the Chicago Cubs 11-4 on Sunday to avoid a three-game sweep. Whit Merrifield had four hits, Vladimir Guerrero Junior had two hits and two RBIs and Brandon Belt reached base four times as the Blue Jays snapped a three-game skid.

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Cedric Mullins robbed Ty France of a homer in the ninth inning and then hit a two-run homer in the 10th as the AL-best Baltimore Orioles beat the Seattle Mariners 5-3 in extra innings for the second straight day. Elsewhere, the Miami Marlins scored 5 runs in the ninth to knock off the visiting New York Yankees 8-7, the L-A Angels edged the Houston Astros 2-1, and the Boston Red Sox beat the Detroit Tigers 6-3.

TENNIS

Jessica Pegula made short work of Liudmila Samsonova 6-1, 6-0 to win the women’s National Bank Open singles event in Montreal on Sunday. In Toronto, Jannik Sinner won the men’s NBO singles title. The seventh-seeded Italian beat Australia’s Alex de Minaur 6-4, 6-1 for his first career Masters 1000 series title.

GOLF

Calgary-based golfer Stephen Ames carded a final-round 63 on Sunday to win the Champions Tour Boeing Classic by seven shots. Ames shot rounds of 67, 67 and 63 for a 19-under par on the Snoqualmie Ridge course in Washington State. Miguel Angel Jimenez of Spain was second at 12-under, while Steven Alker of New Zealand and K-J Choi of South Korea tied for third at 10-under.

(CP)