SUNDAY SPORTS

The Regina Pats have some company atop the WHL’s East Division.

Glenn Gawdin scored the shootout winner and Eetu Laurikainen made 46 saves as Swift Current halted the Pats’ three-game win streak, beating Regina 4-3 in the Brandt Centre Saturday evening.  The victory pulls the Broncos even with the Pats for first place in the WHL East.

Colby Cave scored twice in regulation for the Broncos (29-22-8) and Graham Black added a single goal.  Regina (30-22-6) got goals from Patrick D’Amico, Dyson Stevenson and Connor Gay.

Daniel Wapple turned away 30-of-33 shots for the Pats, who host the Brandon Wheat Kings Monday at 2:00 pm on 620 CKRM (Press Box Sports Bar Pregame Show at 1:35 pm).

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Skip Jennifer Jones and Canada’s women’s Olympic curling team are now a perfect 8-0 after a 7-6 win over the United States in 11 ends on Sunday.

Jones continued her stellar play, scoring a single on the final throw of the extra end.  The United States (1-7) stole a point in the 10th end when Jones’s hammer shot was thrown too heavily.

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Canada’s Jan Hudec won a bronze medal in the Olympic super-G after finishing in a tie for third with American Bode Miller. Kjetil Jansrud won the event, giving Norway its fourth straight gold medal in the discipline. American Andrew Weibrecht won the silver medal. Hudec’s bronze medal is Canada’s 13th medal of the games.

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Canada took round one against the US in Olympic curling, with Brad Jacobs winning his fifth straight match, 8-6. The Canadian men’s team is well in position to reach the playoffs with a 6-2 and record. The Americans came up just short on their final rock to send the match to an extra end.

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Goaltender Carey Price led Canada onto the ice in warmups for Sunday’s final preliminary round hockey game against Finland.  Canada’s starting goaltender has been a closely-guarded secret since Friday’s 6-0 win over Austria.  Both teams are 2-0.  The game faces off at 11:00 am Sask time. Meanwhile, Finnish forward Aleksander Barkov has been ruled out for the rest of the Sochi Games with a lower-body injury. Barkov — the number-two overall pick by the Florida Panthers in the 2013 draft — was hurt during Friday’s win over Norway.

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The Eastern Conference trio of Toronto’s Terrence Ross, Indiana’s Paul George and Washington’s John Wall won the NBA All-Star slam dunk contest. Toronto rapper Drake even got a hand in the action … holding the ball up about chest-high to help Ross execute his jam. As Ross initiated his jump, he grabbed the ball from Drake, passed it under his legs and then threw down a windmill jam.

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William McGirt is on top after three rounds of the PGA’s Northern Trust Open in Los Angeles. He fired a 6-under-par 65 on Saturday for a 12-under total, two strokes ahead of George McNeill and Charlie Beljan.  Weyburn’s Graham DeLaet is tied for 69th at 2-over-par.

Canadian Press