The Southwest Baseball League's Rivers Comets won the Provincial Senior A Baseball Championship Sunday in Wawanesa. The Comets downed the Santa Clara Baseball League's Plumas Pirates 5-1 in the final.


Oildome, Carillon and South Central were the top three finishers at the 15U AAA qualifier in Ile des Chenes and will compete in the Provincial Tier 1 championship this weekend in Brandon. Brandon, Carillon and South Central were the top three finishers at the 13U AAA qualifier in Niverville and will play in the Provincial Tier 1 championship this weekend in Altona.


Westman Magic beat the Eastman Wildcats 5-2 in the final of Softball Manitoba's U15 AAA Provincial Championship in La Salle. Westman lost 4-0 to the Wildcats in the 1 vs 2 page playoff game and then defeated the Manitoba Angels 10-1 in the semifinals.


Team Manitoba lost 12-10 to Ontario (2) and finished with a 1-4 record at Baseball Canada's Women's Invitational Championship in Stonewall. Ontario (1) defeated the Quebec Elite Team 9-8 in the gold medal game. Team Manitoba's roster includes Zoe Hicks of Boissevain, Darbi Poole of McAuley, Amber Baker of Strathclair and Emily Foster & Michayla Peacock of Somerset.


The Winnipeg Goldeyes defeated Gary 3-0 and completed a three-game sweep of the SouthShore RailCats. Rookie Goldeyes starter RJ Martinez allowed just four hits over six innings of work to earn the victory. He struck out five and did not walk a batter. The 23-year-old lefty retired 11 of the last 12 batters he faced. Zac Ryan, Travis Seabrooke, and Tasker Strobel each threw an inning of scoreless relief as Winnipeg blanked the RailCats for the second consecutive Sunday. Strobel pitched around a two-out double in the ninth inning to convert his 17th save of the season, tying him for the American Association lead with Fargo-Moorhead’s Alex DuBord.


Canadian athletes won 4 medals and recorded 14, top-8 results at the world track and field championships that wrapped up Sunday in Eugene, Oregon. The final medal came courtesy of Pierce LePage of Whitby, Ontario, who collected silver in the decathlon. Canada's other medallists were the men's 4x100-metre relay team, which won gold; Camryn Rogers of Surrey who won silver in women's hammer throw, and Edmonton's Marco Arop, who raced to bronze in the men's 800 metres.