SUNDAY SPORTS

The Colorado Avalanche will try to win the Stanley Cup on the road Sunday after failing to wrap up the best-of-seven championship series on Friday in Denver. The Avalanche lead the two-time defending Cup champion Tampa Bay Lighting 3-2 and will try to beat the Bolts in Florida for a second straight time, having won Game 4 there — 3-2 in overtime.

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William Dufour has had several highlights in his hockey career, but the 20-year-old forward on the Saint John Sea Dogs lists his four-goal performance Saturday at the Memorial Cup, in front of a sold-out TD Station arena in Saint John, New Brunswick, as his biggest thrill to date. Dufour helped the host Sea Dogs gain a berth in Wednesday’s championship final with a 5-3 win over the Shawinigan Cataractes.

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Josh Leivo of Innisfil, Ontario, was a big winner on Saturday. The Chicago Wolves forward won the Calder Cup and the Jack A. Butterfield Trophy for being MVP of the American Hockey League playoffs. Leivo finished the playoffs with 15 goals and 14 assists, the highest post-season point total for any AHL player in the last 14 years. The Wolves defeated the Springfield Thunderbirds in the championship series.

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The Toronto Blue Jays will try to close their three-game series in Milwaukee today with a win over the Brewers. The Jays, who have lost 6 of their last 10 games, have slipped into third place in the American League East, 11 1/2 games behind the leading New York Yankees and half a game behind the Boston Red Sox. Right-hander Jose Berrios will pitch for Toronto on Sunday, while the Brewers will counter with right-hander Chi Chi Gonzalez.

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Cristian Javier, Hector Neris and Ryan Pressly combined on the first no-hitter against the New York Yankees in 19 years, shutting down the best team in baseball and pitching the Houston Astros to a 3-0 victory. Javier was clearly tired when manager Dusty Baker brought in a reliever to start the eighth. Javier set career highs with 13 strikeouts and 115 pitches, and he matched his longest start with seven innings.

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Someone has paid 2.4-million-dollars for a one-of-a-kind LeBron James trading card, a purchase price that fell short of what some expected. The auction of the “Triple Logo-Man” card ended Saturday. Officials at the collectibles marketplace Goldin, which ran the auction, suggested the card could fetch the largest price ever. The record remains 6.6-million-dollars spent for a Honus Wagner trading card last year.

(CP)