LOCAL SPORTS
AGR Fastpitch in Pomquet:
St. Andrew’s Flyers 7 Heatherton Warriors 4
Winning pitcher: Andrew MacIsaac, Losing pitcher: Paul Purcell
Top Hitters for the Flyers: Tyler MacIsaac (single, 2 run homer, 3 RBI), Cole O’Leary (2 run homer, 2 RBI)
For Heatherton: Adam Anderson (double, 2 RBI), Ricky Bowie (double, 1 RBI)
Tonight’s double header between Guysborough and St. Josephs has been moved to Sunday beginning at 1 pm in Guysborough.
Several schools in our listening area are taking part in provincial slo-pitch championships this weekend. On the boy’s side, Dr. J. H. Gillis is part of the Division 1 championships in Bridgewater – the Royals finished the day at 1-1 following a 17-7 loss to Memorial. This morning, the Royals play a must-win game against Yarmouth at 9:15. Dalbrae hosts Division 2 at the We’koqma’q Community Ball Field. Richmond is also part of the tournament. In Division 3, Inverness and Ecole Beauport de Arichat compete in Lockeport.
In girl’s slo-pitch, North Nova hosts the Division 1 championships in New Glasgow, which includes Dalbrae & Northumberland. Division 2 on the Eastern Shore features teams from SAERC and North Nova. And in Division 3, Ecole Beauport and Inverness are among the teams competing in Tatamagouche.
Matt MacPherson of Antigonish will be wearing his stripes as a Stanley Cup official for the third time. This is the thirds time MacPherson has worked a Stanley Cup Final, having served as an NHL linesman since 2011. The final between the Edmonton Oilers & Florida Panthers begins tonight.
NATIONAL SPORTS
J-J Bleday hit the first pitch of the ninth inning from Chad Green over the right-field wall to give the Oakland Athletics a 2-1 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. Toronto starter Chris Bassitt’s wild pitch against his former club allowed Oakland’s Max Schuemann to score the first run of the game in the sixth. Bo Bichette tied it with an RBI single in the seventh.
Jays’ starting pitcher Alek Manoah will miss the rest of the season because of reconstructive surgery on his right elbow. The operation is scheduled for June 17. Toronto manager John Schneider says he’s not ready to say exactly how the Blue Jays will fill Manoah’s spot on the rotation.
Teoscar Hernández broke up a scoreless game with a two-run double in the 11th inning, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Yankees 2-1 to stop New York’s season-best eight-game winning streak in a matchup viewed as a possible World Series preview. Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched seven scoreless innings of three-hit ball in his Yankee Stadium debut.
Veteran Stampeders’ kicker Rene Paredes scored 20 points as the Calgary Stampeders opened their 2024 CFL season with a 32-24 win over the visiting Hamilton Tiger-Cats. Paredes was a perfect 6-for-6 on his field-goal attempts, plus two converts in front of an announced crowd of 19,741 at McMahon Stadium
Caitlin Clark was asked before her W-N-B-A game at Washington whether she thinks Chennedy Carter owes her a public apology. The rookie standout dismissed the idea. Clark says basketball is competitive and isn’t going to be nice all the time. Clark then took the court and made a career-high seven three-pointers in the Indiana Fever’s 85-83 win over the Mystics.
Wild weather in Montreal, including hailstones, had an immediate impact on practice for the Canadian Grand Prix. Formula 1 points leader Max Verstappen left the track early with his Red Bull machine smoking, while Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso had the fastest lap in the second free practice at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.
Friday’s Scoreboard
CFL
Calgary 32 Hamilton 24
MLB
American League
Baltimore 6 Tampa Bay 3
Chicago White Sox 7 Boston 2
Kansas City 10 Seattle 9
Oakland 2 Toronto 1
Houston 7 L.A. Angels 1
National League
Washington 2 Atlanta 1
Cincinnati 3 Chicago Cubs 2
St. Louis 8 Colorado 5
San Diego 10 Arizona 3
Interleague
Pittsburgh 3 Minnesota 0
Milwaukee 10 Detroit 0
Miami 3 Cleveland 2
L.A. Dodgers 2 N.Y. Yankees 1 (11 innings)
San Francisco 5 Texas 2
WNBA
Indiana 85 Washington 83
Seattle 78 Las Vegas 65
Los Angeles 81 Dallas 72
Phoenix 81 Minnesota 80
Saturday’s Games (All times Eastern)
NHL Stanley Cup Final
Edmonton at Florida, 8 p.m. (Start of series)
CFL
Saskatchewan at Edmonton, 4 p.m.
MLB
American League
Toronto (Gausman 4-4) at Oakland (Medina 0-0), 4:07 p.m.
Baltimore (Rodriguez 6-2) at Tampa Bay (Bradley 1-3), 4:10 p.m.
Boston (Bello 6-2) at Chicago White Sox (Nastrini 0-5), 4:10 p.m.
Seattle (Castillo 5-6) at Kansas City (Marsh 4-3), 4:10 p.m.
Houston (Brown 1-5) at L.A. Angels (Anderson 5-5), 10:07 p.m.
National League
Philadelphia (Suárez 9-1) at N.Y. Mets (Manaea 3-2), 1:10 p.m.
Atlanta (Morton 3-2) at Washington (Gore 4-5), 4:05 p.m.
Chicago Cubs (Brown 1-2) at Cincinnati (Abbott 4-5), 4:10 p.m.
Colorado (Feltner 1-5) at St. Louis (Gibson 4-2), 4:15 p.m.
Arizona (Nelson 3-4) at San Diego (Waldron 3-5), 8:40 p.m.
Interleague
Minnesota (Woods Richardson 2-0) at Pittsburgh (TBD), 4:05 p.m.
San Francisco (TBD) at Texas (Heaney 2-6), 4:05 p.m.
Milwaukee (Peralta 4-3) at Detroit (Mize 1-3), 4:10 p.m.
Cleveland (Lively 5-2) at Miami (TBD), 7:35 p.m.
L.A. Dodgers (Stone 6-2) at N.Y. Yankees (Cortes 3-4), 7:35 p.m.
WNBA
New York at Connecticut, 1 p.m.
Atlanta at Chicago, 5 p.m.