National Sports

VANCOUVER — Brian White scored and the Vancouver Whitecaps stretched their win streak to three straight games, downing the L.A. Galaxy 2-1 on Sunday.

VANCOUVER — Even after an ugly road swing, there's good news for the Vancouver Canucks — for now, the team is still in the playoff picture. The Canucks (27-22-11) are in a close battle with three other teams for the Western Conference wild-card spot.

VANCOUVER — The trend of Canadian sports fans jeering the United States' national anthem has bled from hockey over to soccer. Fans in Vancouver booed as the “The Star-Spangled Banner” was sung before a game between the Whitecaps and L.A.

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Two days after Joe Highsmith made a nervy par putt to make the cut, he won the Cognizant Classic with the lowest weekend ever at PGA National and is going to the Masters.

SHERBROOKE, Que. — Felix Lacerte had two goals and an assist as the visiting Shawinigan Cataractes defeated the Sherbrooke Phoenix 4-2 in Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League action on Sunday.

KELOWNA, B.C. — Northwest Territories vice D'Arcy Delorey would often use a territorial championship banner at the three-sheet Hay River Curling Club as inspiration in the early days of his curling journey.

DUNEDIN — Bo Bichette had two hits including a home run, Philadelphia pitcher Konnor Ash walked in the winning run, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Phillies 5-4 Sunday in spring training action.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — William Nylander scored 1:00 into overtime, and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins 6-5 on Sunday.

HEERENVEEN — Canada’s Laurent Dubreuil and Ivanie Blondin earned silver medals Sunday as the World Cup speedskating season wrapped up. Dubreuil, from Lévis, Que., finished second in a time of 34.

Canadian figure skater Laurence Fournier Beaudry has formed a partnership with Olympic ice dance champion Guillaume Cizeron months after former partner Nikolaj Sorensen was handed a six-year suspension for "sexual maltreatment.