National Sports

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — It took only four rounds for Lydia Ko to put a dismal 2023 LPGA Tour season completely behind her.

CHARLOTTETOWN — Maxim Masse scored four goals and added an assist as the visiting Chicoutimi Sagueneens cruised past the Charlottetown Islanders 8-3 in Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League action on Sunday.

NAKISKA, ALTA. — Hannah Schmidt doubled her World Cup ski cross victories at Nakiska Ski Resort on Sunday.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Vladimir Tarasenko and Claude Giroux scored third-period goals and the Ottawa Senators came back to defeat the Philadelphia Flyers 5-3 on Sunday in Shane Pinto’s return to the lineup from a gambling suspension.

WINNIPEG — The future of a proposed international curling centre, combined with a museum that would pay tribute to Neil Young, Randy Bachman and other Manitoba music greats, appears to be in limbo.

Calgary Flames forward Dillon Dube has been granted an indefinite leave to attend to his mental health, the team announced Sunday. The 25-year-old from Golden, B.C.

TORONTO — Middleweight champion Sean Strickland and challenger Dricus (Stillknocks) Du Plessis had promised their UFC 297 showdown would be a war. "To the death," crowed Strickland before the fight. It didn't reach that stage, fortunately.

MELBOURNE, Australia — Ottawa's Gabriela Dabrowski and New Zealand's Erin Routliffe moved on to the women's doubles quarterfinals on Sunday. The duo defeated China's Xinyu Jiang and Hanyu Guo 4-6, 6-1, 6-3 in third-round action.

KITZBUEHEL, Austria (AP) — German skier Linus Strasser got down on his knees and kissed the snow on an Austrian slope he has known since he was a child, with his wife Maria and their one-year-old daughter watching from the stands.

JASNA, Slovakia (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin earned her record-extending career win 95 by triumphing in a women’s World Cup slalom Sunday, a day after the American ski star’s main rival sustained a season-ending injury.