National Sports

SPRUCE GROVE, Alta. — Wouter Wippert jumped from the field with about 25 metres to go and outsprinted the pack to win his first race in more than two years on Saturday in Stage 2 of the Tour of Alberta.

BALTIMORE — Blue Jays pitcher Marcus Stroman was struck on the right elbow with a line drive Saturday night and forced out of a game against the Baltimore Orioles.

It was at the start of his second season with the Laval Rouge et Or that Antony Auclair let himself think about a possible NFL career. On Saturday, that dream became a reality. The six-foot-five, 256-pound tight end from Notre-Dame-des-Pins, Que.

CALGARY — Scott McCarron has had his way with the par-5, 18th hole at Canyon Meadows Golf and Country Club.

TORONTO — Gary Wheeler broke the game open with a second-half try as the Toronto Wolfpack beat Whitehaven 36-18 on Saturday in the fifth round of Kingstone Press League 1's Super 8s playoffs.

HOUSTON — Baseball returned to Houston on Saturday with the Astros giving the flood-ravaged city a few hours of entertainment at the end of a terrible and trying week.

WOLFVILLE, N.S. — Cody Cluett threw a pair of touchdowns to lift the Acadia Axemen past the Bishop's Gaiters 27-10 on Saturday in U Sports football action. Cluett was 36 of 44 for 302 yards and connected with Ben Meek and Dale Wright for the TDs.

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The New England Patriots traded quarterback Jacoby Brissett to the Indianapolis Colts for receiver Phillip Dorsett.

BALTIMORE — Toronto Blue Jays manager John Gibbons left the team before Saturday night's game against the Orioles to tend to personal business. The Blue Jays offered no details on Gibbons' absence, or whether he would be gone for more than one game.

ANNAPOLIS ROYAL, N.S. — The ownership of a Nova Scotia golf club appears in limbo, but members of the facility said they're pulling together to keep the 18 hole course running until its fate becomes clear.