Monday Sports: TiCats Pump Elks

CFL

Bo Levi Mitchell passed for 316 yards and five touchdowns, including two to Tim White, as the Hamilton Tiger-Cats won their second game in a row, defeating the hapless Edmonton Elks 44-28 on Sunday.

The Tiger-Cats improved to 2-5.

The Elks are still winless on the year, falling to 0-7, and 0-2 under interim head coach Jarious Jackson, who replaced Chris Jones.

Edmonton now has a depressing 2-28 record at home since Oct. 26, 2019.

Hamilton made it 41-8 to start the fourth on a seven-yard touchdown pass to White.

Much to the delight of the Edmonton crowd, the Elks finally brought in backup QB Tre Ford and he engineered a long drive, culminating in a five-yard TD pass to Kurleigh Gittens Jr. The two-point convert attempt failed.

Liegghio added a 35-yard field goal.

Ford’s second possession was just as successful, another long drive capped off by a 20-yard touchdown pass to Gavin Cobb. The two-point convert pass to Eugene Lewis was good.

Edmonton’s Darrius Bratton recovered a fumble at the Hamilton 20, leading to another Ford TD pass, a 12-yarder to Lewis.

Ford ended up with 121 passing yards and three TDs in less than a quarter of play, to Bethel-Thompson’s 85 yards passing.

(Canadian Press)

OLYMPICS

• Vanessa Gilles scored 12 minutes into stoppage time as the Canadian women’s soccer team staged an epic 2-1 comeback victory over host France at the Paris Olympics on Sunday. Canada needed to win after FIFA docked the team six points, the equivalent of two wins, over the drone scandal. The Canadians have won both of their preliminary games and will need to beat Colombia on Wednesday to have a shot at advancing to the knockout rounds.
• Eleanor Harvey won Canada’s second medal of the Paris Olympics with a bronze in fencing on Sunday. The 29-year-old from Hamilton, Ontario, upset Italy’s Alice Volpi 15-12 to reach the podium in the women’s individual foil. It’s Canada’s first-ever Olympic medal in the sport.
• Canada’s women’s basketball team tips off its Olympic schedule today with a game in Lille against host France. Canada, ranked fifth in the world, and seventh-ranked France are in Group B, along with third-ranked Australia and 12th-ranked Nigeria, who also play today.
• High-profile American gymnast Simone Biles posted an all-around total of 59.566 during Olympic qualifying inside a packed and star-studded Bercy Arena in Paris on Sunday despite complaining of a left calf injury that had her limping. Biles appeared to tweak the leg while warming up. She had the ankle taped and then returned to put on the kind of show-stopping performance that has long been her signature.

MLB

Daulton Varsho homered in the first inning, José Berríos pitched seven strong innings to snap a three-start winless streak, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the visiting Texas Rangers 7-3 on Sunday to complete a three-game sweep of the defending World Series champions. Vladimir Guerrero Junior hit a solo home run, his fifth in nine games since the All-Star break.

GOLF

American Lauren Coughlin won the CPKC Canadian Women’s Open on Sunday in Calgary. She finished at 13-under 275, closing with a 1-under 71 for a two-stroke victory over Tour rookie Mao Saigo of Japan. Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ontario, finished in a four-way tie for eighth, seven shots behind Coughlin.

(Canadian Press)