National Sports

TORONTO — Bridget Carleton made the Transatlantic trip home from Israel for this week's Canadian women's basketball camp.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Gary Trent Jr. and Fred VanVleet hit back-to-back 3-pointers over the final 1:10 to lift the Toronto Raptors past the Philadelphia 76ers, 115-109 on Thursday night.

BOSTON (AP) — Leon Draisaitl had two goals and an assist, moving ahead of teammate Connor McDavid into the NHL scoring lead and leading the Edmonton Oilers to a 5-3 victory over the Boston Bruins on Thursday night.

BELLEAIR, Fla. (AP) — Solheim Cup star Leona Maguire thrived in a star grouping Thursday with an 8-under 62 for a two-shot lead over defending champion Sei Young Kim in the Pelican Women's Championship. Maguire played alongside Kim and Lexi Thompson.

HOUSTON (AP) — Marc Leishman, Russell Henley, Talor Gooch and Luke List shared the lead Thursday in the suspended first round of the Houston Open, with List still on the course when darkness stopped play.

OTTAWA — Defenceman Nikita Zaitsev was placed by the Senators into the NHL's COVID-19 protocol late Thursday, the third Ottawa player to be added to the list in one day.

This is pretty much how Ryan Dinwiddie saw his first regular season as a CFL head coach winding down. The Toronto Argonauts (8-4) host the Hamilton Tiger-Cats (7-5) on Friday night at BMO Field.

John Herdman inherited a men's team ranked 94th in the world when he took over from the fired Octavio Zambrano in January 2018.

VANCOUVER — The B.C. Lions know what's at stake this week — win and the team's faint playoff hopes glimmer on, lose and they'll officially be snuffed out.

HELSINKI — Mélodie Daoust scored the winning goal as Canada downed host Finland 4-2 in women's hockey Thursday. Victoria Bach, Marie-Philip Poulin and Jocelyne Larocque also scored for Canada, while Rebecca Johnston had two assists.