National Sports

SPOKANE — Brayden Schuurman scored the shootout winner to lift the Seattle Thunderbirds to a 7-6 win over the Spokane Chiefs on Friday in Western Hockey League action.

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UIJEONGBU-SI — Canada's Rachel Homan cruised to a 10-4 win on Saturday in a qualification match over Scotland's Sophie Jackson to earn a spot in the semifinal of the LGT World Women's Curling Championship.

VAL-D'OR, Que. — Vince Elie capped a two-goal effort by scoring the game-winning marker 1:40 into overtime as the Shawinigan Cataractes squeezed past the Val-d'Or Foreurs 5-4 on Friday in Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League action.

KITCHENER, Ont. — Jack Pridham netted the game-winning goal at 13:40 of the third period to lift the Kitchener Rangers to a 3-2 win over the Owen Sound Attack on Friday in Ontario Hockey League action.

George Foreman, the fearsome heavyweight who lost the “Rumble in the Jungle” to Muhammad Ali before his inspiring second act as a 45-year-old champion and a successful businessman, died Friday night. He was 76.

EDMONTON — Lorne Thurston and Joseph McIntyre were planning to get an up-close look at the Wayne Gretzky statue in downtown Edmonton on Friday, when they realized it had been smeared with what appeared to be — and strongly smelled like — feces.

FORT WORTH, TEXAS — It was a solid start to the US$1-million Bassmaster Classic for Canadian Cory Johnston. Johnston, of Cavan, Ont., was second after the opening day of pro bass fishing's premier event Friday on Lake Ray Roberts.

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SEATTLE (AP) — Kyan Evans made a career-high six 3-pointers and scored 23 points to lead No. 12 seed Colorado State past fifth-seeded Memphis 78-70 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday.