National Sports

MIAMI — Faced with adversity Sunday, Canada's Bianca Andreescu found a way to persevere. It wasn't easy, but the Mississauga, Ont., product gritted out a 7-6 (4), 6-7 (2), 6-4 third-round win over American Amanda Anisimova at the Miami Open.

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Canada's Adam Svensson captured the title at the Korn Ferry Tour's Club Car Championship in a playoff at The Landings Club on Sunday. Svensson, from Surrey, B.C.

TAMPA, Fla. — CJ McCollum scored seven of his 23 points in the final two minutes and the Portland Trail Blazers beat the Toronto Raptors 122-117 on Sunday night.

BATHURST, N.B. — A three-point night from captain Jacob Hudson Sunday powered the Moncton Wildcats to a 5-3 victory over the Acadie-Bathurst Titan in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League action. Hudson had a goal and two assists in the win.

WINNIPEG — Jordan Weal had a goal and two assists Sunday, leading the surging Laval Rocket to a 5-3 win over the Manitoba Moose in American Hockey League play.

MONTREAL — Eric Staal says he got goosebumps as he drove toward the Canadian border to start the next chapter of his NHL career.

The complexities of executing sporting events in a global pandemic were illustrated Sunday when Canada's World Cup qualifier against the Cayman Islands was pushed back a day to Monday.

DUNEDIN, Fla. — Tyler Wright hit a solo homer and Logan Warmoth had a two-run double in the bottom of the ninth inning as the Toronto Blue Jays salvaged a 4-4 tie with the Detroit Tigers in spring training action Sunday.

SAKHIR, Bahrain — World champion Lewis Hamilton just managed to hold off Max Verstappen to win the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix and clinch the 96th Formula One win of his career on Sunday.

Lucas Dias has long been ahead of the game. At eight or nine, he was playing with kids two years older at the Sporting FC Academy in Toronto. Moving to Portugal at 11, he was the youngest at Sporting CPs academy in Lisbon.