SUNDAY SPORTS PAGE: TICATS HOLD OFF REDBLACKS

CFL

HAMILTON – Marc Liegghio booted five field goals to lift the Hamilton Tiger-Cats to a 21-13 home win over the Ottawa Redblacks on Saturday night.

Liegghio’s final boot, from 25 yards out, put Hamilton (1-3) ahead by eight points at 11:49 of the fourth. Liegghio has made all nine field goal he’s tried since joining the Ticats but did miss a convert.

But Ottawa’s Dustin Crum made it very interesting late in the contest.

Playing in place of injured starter Jeremiah Masoli, the rookie quarterback drove Ottawa (1-3) to the Hamilton 20-yard line with seven seconds to play,. On the game’s final play, he took off for the end zone but was stopped a yard-and-a- half short by Ticats Richard Leonard and Chris Edwards, delighting the Tim Hortons field gathering of 21,331.

Masoli, in his season debut, left in the second quarter with a left leg injury.

Masoli was trying to roll out to his right when, untouched on the play, he fell to the turf and immediately clutched his left leg. He was carried off the field by his teammates.

MLS

The Vancouver Whitecaps, who led 1-0 and 2-1, lost 3-2 to the visiting Seattle Sounders in Major League Soccer action on Saturday. Yeimar Gomez Andrade scored a minute into second-half stoppage time to give Seattle the win. Ranko Veselinovic and Ryan Gauld scored for Vancouver, while Leo Chu scored twice for the Sounders. Elsewhere, visiting Atlanta United edged C-F Montreal 1-0, while visiting St. Louis City blanked Toronto F-C 1-0.

MLB

Three Detroit Tigers pitchers combined to no-hit the Toronto Blue Jays in a 2-0 win on Saturday. It was the first combined no-hitter in Tigers’ history. Matt Manning pitched 6 and two-third innings, then Jason Foley got four straight outs before Tigers’ closer Alex Lange came in for the ninth. The Jays, who trounced the Tigers 12-2 on Friday, will attempt to win the three-game series on Sunday in the final game before the all-star break.

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Elly De La Cruz became the first Reds player since 1919 to steal second, third and home in the same inning and Cincinnati beat the Milwaukee Brewers 8-5 on Saturday. De La Cruz broke a 5-5 tie in the seventh inning with a two-out R-B-I single off Elvis Peguero, then made the reliever’s life miserable.

BASKETBALL

The Winnipeg Sea Bears’ bench scored 50 points to lead the team to a 99-95 victory over the Edmonton Stingers on Saturday at Edmonton Expo Centre in Canadian Elite Basketball play. The victory was Winnipeg’s first on a three-game road trip that included defeats to Ottawa and Montreal. It also avenges a 97-68 loss to the Stingers earlier in the season. 

Meanwhile the Canadian women’s basketball team will play for third in the women’s AmeriCup in Mexico, following a heartbreaking 67-63 semifinal loss to the U-S on Saturday. Despite trailing 39-29 at halftime, Canada played a superb second half and led the Americans 63-62 with three minutes left in the game. Canada will face Puerto Rico in Sunday’s third-place final, while the U-S plays Brazil for the championship.

(CP)