National Sports

HARRISON, N.J. — The Montreal Impact earned an important win as they kept their hopes for a playoff berth alive.

RICHMOND, Va. — The other left-handed, 50-year-old former Masters champion was on top after a long Saturday at The Country Club of Virginia.

ARLINGTON, Texas — Ian Anderson doesn’t remember the last time the Atlanta Braves were in a Game 7. That’s because the 22-year-old rookie right-hander wasn’t born yet.

BATHURST, N.B. — The league-best Acadie-Bathurst Titan got eight goals from eight different players in an 8-1 victory over the Cape Breton Eagles Saturday afternoon at the K.C. Irving Regional Centre in Bathurst.

CENTREVILLE, Va. — Canadian Francois Lavoie bowled a perfect game in the round of 16 at the PBA Playoffs. Lavoie bowled 12 straight strikes in his win over Sean Rash to record the 29th televised 300 game in PBA Tour History.

Virgil van Dijk has been a commanding — even transcendent — presence at the heart of Liverpool’s defence throughout the team’s rise to the top of English and European soccer in recent years.

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Canadian flyweight Gillian (The Savage) Robertson used her superior grappling skills to dominate Brazil's Poliano Botelho en route to a unanimous decision win Saturday night on a UFC Fight Night card.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Canadians Denis Shapovalov and Milos Raonic were ousted in the semifinal round Saturday at the St. Petersburg Open tennis tournament.

COLOGNE, Germany — Montreal's Felix Auger-Aliassime is through the final of the Cologne Open after posting a 6-3, 1-6, 6-3 win over Spain's Roberto Bautista Agut in a semifinal match Saturday.

OTTAWA — The Ottawa Senators have signed goaltender Joey Daccord to a three-year contract.