Weekend wrap-up: A Grey Cup astonishment and gold skaters

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Football: Nick Arbuckle and the Argos surprised Winnipeg in the Grey Cup

The anonymous back-up quarterback tossed for 252 lawns and 2 goals and the Argonauts protection chose off previous CFL Most Outstanding Player Zach Collaros 4 times as Toronto shocked the heavily favoured Blue Bombers 41-24 last evening inVancouver Arbuckle was called Grey Cup MVP — an unlikely success for the 31-year-old journeyman that almost gave up playing last springtime and was just on the area the other day due to the fact that starter Chad Kelly damaged his ankle joint recently. Argos receiver Dejon Brissett (the older sibling of NBA gamer Oshae Brissett) was elected the leading Canadian after making 5 catches for 45 lawns and a goal.

Winnipeg’s 5th successive Grey Cup look finished in an additional distressed loss. Since breaking their 29-year champion dry spell with back-to-back success, the Blue Bombers have actually gone down 3 straight — all to large underdogs. They’re the very first franchise business to lose three straight Grey Cups given that the 1954-56 Montreal Alouettes.

Saturday’s Canadian college football semifinals went extra according to strategy. Second- placed Laurier defeated No. 6 Bishop’s 48-24 in the Uteck Bowl, whileNo 3 Laval racked up a goal with 79 secs entrusted to beat unranked Regina 17-14 and prevent a huge trouble in theMitchell Bowl Laval and Laurier will certainly bet the Vanier Cup this Saturday in Kingston, Ont.

Tennis: Great Britain dismissed Canada in the Billie Jean King Cup

After winning this occasion (previously referred to as the Fed Cup) for the very first time ever before in 2015, Canada did not also take an evaluated this year’s 12-team Finals inSpain Coming off a first-round bye, Canada got swept 2-0 by Great Britain in the quarterfinals on Sunday as Rebecca Marino shed 6-0, 7-5 to Emma Raducanu and Leylah Fernandez dropped 6-2, 6-4 to Katie Boulter.

Great Britain will certainly encounter Slovakia in the semifinals on Tuesday at 6 a.m. ET. The champion fulfills Italy or Poland for the Cup on Wednesday at midday ET. Watch both competitions reside on CBCSports ca, the CBC Sports application and CBC Gem.

Soccer: Canada left with a win in Suriname

Substitute Junior Hoilett racked up in the 82nd min on Friday evening to provide the 35th-ranked Canadian males’s group a 1-0 win overNo 136 Suriname in the opening leg of their CONCACAF Nations League quarterfinal.

The return leg of the aggregate-score competition is Tuesday evening inToronto Captain Alphonso Davies might return for Canada after missing out on Friday’s suit as a result of “fatigue.”

The champions of each quarterfinal advancement to the four-team CONCACAF Nations League Finals in Los Angeles in March and get following summertime’sGold Cup The United States and Panama won their opening legs 1-0 at Jamaica and Costa Rica, specifically, while Honduras distressed Mexico 2-0.

In Canadian females’s nationwide group information, expert protector Kadeisha Buchanan is most likely out for the remainder of the club period after suffering a torn ACL while betting Chelsea.

Boxing: Canada’s Lucas Bahdi won his battle on the Mike Tyson-Jake Paul undercard.

The much less claimed concerning Friday’s pathetic main event the far better. But the females’s suit in between Ireland’s Katie Taylor and Puerto Rico’s Amanda Serrano was bloody good And, previously in the evening, Bahdi stayed unbeaten with a success by bulk choice over Italy’s Armando Casamonica.

Bahdi, the Niagara Falls, Ont., boxer that transformed heads with his viral knockout of a higher-ranked challenger in July, is currently 18-0 as a pro.

The various other Canadian on the Tyson-Paul card, Melinda Watpool, shed her females’s incredibly middleweight round versus American Shadasia Green by split choice.

Winter Olympic sporting activities: Canadian skaters advance

Pairs number skating globe champs Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps captured their second gold of the Grand Prix period in Finland, while globes silver medallists Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier took silver in the ice dancing. Kelly Ann Laurin and Loucas Ethier simply missed out on the platform, putting 4th in both.

Canadian lengthy track rate skaters do with 12 medals (consisting of 3 gold) throughout 3 days at the season-opening Four Continents champions inJapan Ivanie Blondin blazed a trail at the occasion for non-European skaters, recording 2 gold medals and a set of bronze. She won the private females’s mass begin and belonged to Canada’s group sprint triumph while ending up 3rd in the solo 1,500 m and 3,000 m occasions. Graeme Fish won Canada’s just males’s gold, in the 5,000 m, while Laurent Dubreuil grabbed 3 medals: silver in the 500m, bronze in the 1,000 m and bronze in the group sprint.

In towering snowboarding, Laurence St-Germain was the leading Canadian at the World Cup slalom openers in Finland, putting 10th in the females’s occasion. American celebrity Mikaela Shiffrin won it for her 98th World Cup triumph.

Women’s skeletal system globe champ Hallie Clarke had Canada’s ideal lead to the World Cup period openers in South Korea, putting 6th onSaturday Clarke was up to 14th in Sunday’s race while Jane Channell was 13th.