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SEATTLE — A goal by Lukas Svejkovsky at 3:28 of the third period held up as the winner Sunday as the Seattle Thunderbirds defeated the visiting Kamloops Blazers 2-1 to force a seventh and deciding game in the tight Western Hockey League playoff serie

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Eun-Hee Ji won the Bank of Hope LPGA Match-Play on Sunday for a spot next week in the U.S. Women's Open, beating Ayaka Furue 3 and 2 in cooler conditions at Shadow Creek. Ji, the 2009 U.S.

WINDSOR, Ont. — Badly outshot, and at times badly outplayed, the Flint Firebirds still made the best of limited opportunities Sunday to knock off the host Windsor Spitfires 4-3 and grab a 3-2 lead in their Ontario Hockey League series.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Shohei Ohtani crushed two early homers, but they didn't stand up. Not against the all-day relentlessness of the Toronto Blue Jays' lineup, and not against the ineptitude of the Los Angeles Angels' pitching staff.

TAMPERE — Sakari Manninen scored in overtime to lift host Finland to a 4-3 win over Canada in a wild gold-medal game at the men’s World Hockey Championship on Sunday. Finland also got two goals from Mikael Granlund and another from Joel Armia.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Sam Burns has a winning moment of his own at Colonial.

BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Ten months ago, Steve Alker was about to turn 50 without any guarantees of getting on the PGA Tour Champions because his professional career left plenty to be desired.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Sam Burns made a 38-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole at Colonial, which came just more than two hours after he had finished his round, to beat top-ranked Scottie Scheffler on Sunday.

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Consistency and resiliency lifted Tom Stoltman to another World's Strongest Man title on Sunday.