National Sports

BEIJING — Canada reclaimed Olympic women's hockey gold with a 3-2 win over the United States on Thursday. Canadian captain Marie-Philip Poulin scored twice.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Gary Trent Jr. has no exotic plans for the All-Star break, he's just happy to use the time for bonus bonding with his three younger brothers in Minnesota.

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — The Kamloops Blazers outgunned the Victoria Royals on their way to a 6-4 win on Wednesday night. The Blazers (33-12-1-0) outshot Victoria in every period. Victoria (12-28-4-1) has not won a game this season against Kamloops.

WINNIPEG — Mark Scheifele credited a mini vacation for helping spark his five-game goal streak.

GATINEAU, Que. — Jérémy Langlois scored the game-winner 30 seconds in to overtime as the Cape Breton Eagles edged past the Gatineau Olympiques. Nicholas Girouard scored the tying goal for the Eagles (9-21-3-2) in the third period.

HAMILTON — Ty Tullio scored twice but it wasn't enough for the Oshawa Generals as they fell 3-2 to the Hamilton Bulldogs in a shootout. George Diaco bagged the only shootout goal to give Hamilton (25-11-2-2) the win.

Rugby Canada has extended Jack Hanratty's term as interim coach of the Canadian women's sevens team.

REGINA — The Saskatchewan Roughriders signed American receiver Xavier Ubosi on Wednesday. The six-foot-three, 215-pound Ubosi originally signed with Saskatchewan in December 2019.

AUSTIN, Texas — A goal by Canadian Tyler Pasher, a former Toronto FC academy member, proved to be the difference Wednesday as Toronto lost 2-1 to the Houston Dynamo in MLS pre-season play. The game was played in windy conditions at St.

Chalk up another honour for Jessie Fleming. In the absence of Christine Sinclair, the 23-year-old midfielder from London, Ont., will captain Canada against host England on Thursday at the Arnold Clark Cup.