National Sports

Canadian welterweight Mike (Proper) Malott is headed to the UFC after a 39-second submission win on Dana White's Contender Series. The 29-year-old from Burlington, Ont.

VANCOUVER — Special teams were the difference as the Seattle Kraken wrapped their pre-season with a 4-0 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday.

CRANBROOK, B.C. — Jessie Eldridge scored with 15 seconds left to play but Canada's women's national hockey team still lost to the Cranbrook Bucks 8-3 on Tuesday. Mélodie Daoust and Julia Gosling also scored for Canada in the exhibition game.

SWIFT CURRENT, Sask. — Blake Stevenson scored and added two assists to power the Red Deer Rebels past the Swift Current Broncos 5-1 on Tuesday in the Western Hockey League.

Cavalry FC and Valour FC played to a 0-0 draw in Canadian Premier League action on Tuesday. Both teams had solid chances on net in the opening 10 minutes of the match but neither club could score.

TORONTO — Nick Ritchie has already developed some nice chemistry with Mitch Marner. Watch out for what happens when Auston Matthews eventually joins the party.

BOSTON — Xander Bogaerts and Kyle Schwarber homered off Yankees ace Gerrit Cole, and Nathan Eovaldi took a shutout into the sixth inning to help the Boston Red Sox beat New York 6-2 Tuesday night in the AL wild-card game.

VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Whitecaps have rescheduled an upcoming match against LAFC. Originally scheduled for Nov. 1 at Banc of California, the match will now take place on Nov. 2 at the same venue.

WINNIPEG — Blue Bombers receiver Kenny Lawler apologized Tuesday for the “selfish decision” he made that led to his arrest for impaired driving this week.

Caleb Evans won't have the element of surprise Wednesday night when the Ottawa Redblacks visit the Toronto Argonauts.