National Sports

ARNHEM, Netherlands — Canada opened the women's world volleyball championship with a loss to defending champion Serbia on Sunday.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — George Springer homered twice, Alejandro Kirk and Teoscar Hernández also went deep and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Tampa Bay Rays 7-1 on Sunday to gain a four-game split.

TOKYO — Canada's Gabriela Dabrowski and her Mexican teammate Giuliana Olmos took the women's doubles crown in the Pan Pacific Open with a straight sets victory over Ellen Perez of Australia and Nicole Melichar-Martinez of the U.S.

Having left home at 11 to pursue his soccer dream in Spain, Luca Koleosho has worked hard to get where he is today. Now 18, the RCD Espanyol winger is in camp with Canada but has plenty of international options having been born in the U.S.

LONDON (AP) — Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime added a singles victory over Novak Djokovic to an earlier doubles win Sunday to help Team World to victory over Team Europe in the Laver Cup.

RAČICE, Czechia — Canadian women claimed bronze in the women's eight Sunday at the world rowing championship. Canada clocked a time of six minutes, 7.59 seconds behind winner Romania in 6:01.14 and runner-up the Netherlands in 6:05.04.

Natasha Wodak believes that enjoying the process will show up in the results. The 40-year-old from North Vancouver, B.C., who grew to love training for the marathon, shattered the Canadian record in that distance in Berlin on Sunday.

SYDNEY, Australia — Canada's women's basketball team continues to pick up steam at the FIBA World Cup.

BERLIN (AP) — Two-time Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge has bettered his own world record in the Berlin Marathon on Sunday.

VANCOUVER — Calgary Stampeders rookie Jalen Philpot seized the moment in his CFL debut in his hometown stadium.