The Carillon Sultans will face the defending champion Elmwood Giants in the Manitoba Junior Baseball League semifinals. Meech Nadeau had four hits and Steph Lagasse and Burke Heide drove in two runs each as Carillon downed the St. Boniface Legionaires 8-3 Friday night at Whittier Park in the deciding third game of their quarterfinal. Austin Friesen got the win. He went five-and-a-third innings and allowed just three hits and struck out 10. Tyler Plett got the last five outs. The Sultans and Giants meet tonight at Koskie Field in game one of their best-of-three semifinal. The St. James A’s host the Altona Bisons tonight in game one of the other series. The Bisons downed the Pembina Valley Orioles 11-1 in the deciding third game of their quarterfinal on Friday night.


Team Manitoba finished the round robin with a 1-3 record at Baseball Canada’s Women’s Invitational Championship at Quarry Park in Stonewall. Manitoba lost 8-4 to B.C. and then won its round robin finale in dramatic fashion Friday night. Team Manitoba plated five runs in the bottom of the seventh inning and rallied for an 8-7 victory over Saskatchewan.


Luis Ramirez allowed four hits over seven innings and struck out seven as the Winnipeg Goldeyes downed the Gary SouthShore RailCats 5-2. Ramirez retired 12 of the final 14 batter he faced. Justin Thompson homered for the Fish who are six games over .500.


The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are still perfect. Zach Collaros threw touchdown passes to Rasheed Bailey and Dalton Schoen and backup quarterback Dru Brown sealed the win with a three-yard touchdown run late in the fourth quarter as the Bombers defeated the Edmonton Elks 24-10 at Commonwealth Stadium and improved to 7-0 on the season.


Defending champion Braxton Kuntz of Breezy Bend is minus eight and leads 2020 champion Marco Trstenjak of Elmhurst by six shots heading into today’s final round of the Provincial Men's Amateur Golf Championship at Elmhurst. Tyson Ehnes of Lorette (74-74) is in a tie for 10th place at plus six; Adam Guenther of Elmhurst (74-75) is plus seven; Troy Kehler of Elmhurst (78-74) and Doug Penner of the Steinbach Fly-In golf club (77-75) are plus 10; Stefan Lavallee of Niakwa (78-78) and Steve Buse of Quarry Oaks (83-73) are plus 14. Cole Peters of Niakwa (83-77) got in on the cutline at plus 18. Troy Blad of Quarry Oaks (92-82) was plus 31. Elijah Durksen of the Fly-In (90-87) was plus 35; Paul Marsch of the Fly-In (93-89) was plus 40 and Jeremy Kehler of Quarry Oaks (99-87) was plus 44.


Cala Korman of Killarney fired a final round 11-over par 84 and finished in 70th place at the 108th Canadian Women’s Amateur Championship at Westmount Golf& Country Club in Kitchener, Ontario. Monet Chun of Richmond Hill, Ontario was even par 73 on Friday and won the National Championship by two shots over Alissa Xu.


The Winnipeg Jets have signed forward Pierre-Luc Dubois to a one-year contract worth $6 million. The 24-year-old native of Ste-Agathe-Des-Monts, Quebec had 28 goals and 32 assists in 81 games with the Jets last season. Winnipeg also agreed to terms with defenseman Johnathan Kovacevic on a three-year contract with an average annual value in the NHL of $766,000 and signed forward Jeff Malott to a two-year contract with an average annual value in the NHL of $762,500.