National Sports

SYDNEY, N.S. — The Canadian team's numbers speak for themselves at the world women's curling championship this week. A stellar 11-1 round-robin record. An overall shooting percentage of 88.4 per cent.

FREDERICTON — Kadriana and Colton Lott defeated Laura Walker and Kirk Muyres 7-5 on Friday to capture the gold medal at the Canadian mixed doubles curling championship. The Winnipeg-based Lotts scored twice in the seventh end to take a 6-5 advantage.

TULSA, Okla. — Chris Johnston is the top Canadian following Friday's first round of the US$1-million Bassmaster Classic. Johnston, of Peterborough, Ont., brought in a five-fish limit weighing 15 pounds two ounces on Grand Lake O the Cherokees.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Capitals winger Tom Wilson was suspended six games Friday for his stick to the face of Toronto Maple Leafs forward Noah Gregor.

PALM HARBOR, Fla.

BELFAST, United Kingdom — Bellator featherweight champion Patricio (Pitbull) Freire stopped Canadian Jeremy (JBC) Kennedy with a flurry of blows in the third round Friday in the Bellator Champions Series. The 31-year-old from Surrey, B.C.

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — Canada's Cynthia Appiah captured a bronze medal Friday in a World Cup women's monobob event. Appiah, of Toronto, posted a two-run time of one minute 59.13 seconds for her first medal of the World Cup monobob season.

NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball has opened a formal investigation into illegal gambling and theft allegations involving Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara.

TORONTO — Auston Matthews and Connor McDavid have grown closer off the ice. The star centres sometimes skate together in the summer and now share the same agent. They also possess unique perspectives on what the other deals with as a face of the NHL.

VANCOUVER — The surging Vancouver Whitecaps are trying to strike a delicate balance.