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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 17, 2021, Winnipeg, Manitoba C M Y K PAGE B4 B 4 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2021 ● WINNIPEGFREEPRESS.COMSPORTS SPORTS IN BRIEF GOLFER WHO SUED PGA HAS LEG AMPUTATED NEW YORK — Casey Martin, the Oregon golf coach who successfully sued the PGA Tour for the right to use a cart because of a rare circu- latory disease, had his right leg amputated in what he told Golf Digest was always going to be “my destiny.” The magazine, which has been in touch with Martin over the last few weeks, reported on its website that he had surgery Friday and was recovering at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. His brother said doctors feel it went well enough that Martin has a good shot at an effective prosthesis. Martin suffered from Klippel-Trenaunay- Weber syndrome, which restricted circulation in the lower portion of his right leg and made it virtually impossible for him to walk 18 holes. He still managed to practise and play well enough to earn a PGA Tour card for the 2000 season. His lawsuit citing the Americans with Dis- abilities Act made it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which voted 7-2 in his favour in a 2001 decision. Martin, a teammate of Tiger Woods on Stan- ford’s national championship team, has been the head golf coach at Oregon since 2006. He qualified for the U.S. Open in 2012. The magazine said Martin, 49, broke his right leg two years ago, which eventually led to the decision to amputate when being in a cast and a series of injections failed to heal the tibia. CARDINALS ACQUIRE ERTZ FROM EAGLES THE Arizona Cardinals acquired tight end Zach Ertz in a trade with the Philadelphia Eagles on Friday. The undefeated Cardinals sent cornerback Tay Gowan and a 2022 fifth-round pick to the Eagles for the 30-year-old Ertz, a three-time Pro Bowler. Arizona lost starting tight end Maxx Williams to a season-ending knee injury last Sunday against San Francisco. Ertz had four receptions for 29 yards and a touchdown during Thursday night’s 28-22 loss to Tampa Bay. Ertz was selected by Philadelphia in the second round of the 2013 draft. He has 579 receptions for 6,267 yards and 38 touchdowns in 123 career regular-season games. Ertz also caught the winning touchdown pass in the fourth quarter of the Eagles’ 41-33 victory over the New England Patriots in the 2018 Super Bowl. Gowan was selected by the Cardinals in the sixth round of this year’s draft. The 6-2 Gowan has yet to appear in a regular-season game. BRIT EYES FIRST WIN AT ANDALUCIA MASTERS SOTOGRANDE, Spain — English golfer Laurie Canter is eyeing his first European Tour win after taking a 3-shot lead of the Andalucia Masters heading into the final round. Canter carded 4-under 67 Saturday after making eight birdies to double up his four bogeys. That left him 7 under after three days at the Real Club Valderrama. The closest Canter has come to a tour win were his three second-place finishes in the past two years, most recently at the PGA Championship in England last month. “I can go out tomorrow and play how I have these last couple of days. The score I end up on will be competitive, I think,” Canter said. “That gives me a lot of confidence going in. Having said that, we know what the course is like. (On) the last five or six holes the wind came up from nowhere and the finishing holes are really tough.” Countryman Matt Fitzpatrick is three shots back, followed by American David Lipsky another stroke behind. At 7-under 64 for the day, Lipsky tied the lowest round in the history of the event. Sergio Garcia in 2018 and Daniel Brooks in 2017 also hit that mark. Lipsky bogeyed the first hole then reeled off eight birdies without a flaw. Top-ranked Jon Rahm missed the cut on Friday. PANTHERS PLACE MCCAFFREY ON IR CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Carolina Panthers have placed running back Christian McCaffrey on injured reserve, meaning he will miss at least the next three games with a hamstring injury. McCaffrey already has missed two games, both Carolina losses. The earliest he will be able to return to game action is Nov. 7 against the New Eng- land Patriots. McCaffrey will have missed 18 of 24 games with injuries since becoming the league’s highest-paid running back following the 2019 season. The Panthers (3-2) host the Minnesota Vikings (2-3) today. Canadian Chuba Hubbard will continue to start for McCaffrey. McCaffrey practised on Wednesday on a limited basis but was held out Thursday and Friday. — from the news services JUSTIN TANG / THE CANADIAN PRESS Montreal Alouettes QB Matthew Shiltz runs the ball into the end zone Saturday against the Ottawa Redblacks in Ottawa. O TTAWA — The third time was the charm for Matthew Shiltz.Shiltz threw one touchdown pass and ran for another while David Cote kicked three field goals to lead the Montreal Alouettes to a 27-16 win over the Ottawa Redblacks on Satur- day. It was Shiltz’s first win in his third career CFL start. Shiltz got the start for Montreal after incumbent Vernon Adams Jr. (shoul- der) was injured in last week’s 20-16 win over Ottawa. Shiltz finished 21-of- 34 passing for 281 yards. “It felt great,” Shiltz said. “Honestly, I was more nervous on the sideline, but once you cross over those lines, it’s almost more calming on the field. “I was just so proud of how this team played. It was the definition of a team win. The offence slowed down a little bit in the second half but that’s when the defence really stepped it up.” Montreal (5-4) assumed sole posses- sion of second place in the East Divi- sion with a second straight win over Ottawa (2-8). The Alouettes amassed 393 yards of total offence compared to 242 for the Redblacks, who started the game with Caleb Evans at quarterback but went to Taryn Christion in the fourth quarter. Christion was then injured and knocked out of the game on a sack with 1:33 to play. Montreal’s defence recorded 10 sacks in the contest. Redblacks coach Paul LaPolice said after the game Christion wouldn’t be back anytime soon. But Ottawa also lost kick-returner DeVonte Dedmon (right ankle). Ded- mon, arguably the Redblacks’ best player this season, put no weight on his right leg as he was helped off the field in the second quarter. He returned to Ottawa’s sideline in the second half with a walking cast and crutches. Dedmon, who has four kick-return touchdowns in 13 career CFL games, had four kickoff returns for 73 yards and two punt returns for 116 yards Saturday. The Redblacks turned the ball over five times (downs, fumble, three inter- ceptions). “We always preach the most impor- tant thing is the turnover margin and we just can’t turn it over like we did of- fensively,” LaPolice said. “We survived some of the turnovers and obviously created a couple ourselves defensively. “But you can’t be in the negative turnover margin and expect to win.” Montreal took a 25-16 lead into the fourth as the only scoring of the third came on a 43-yard field goal from Ot- tawa’s Lewis Ward with four minutes to play in the quarter. The Alouettes scored the game’s first 12 points on a 23-yard Cote field goal at 2:43 of the first. Shiltz then scored on a four-yard run at 6:12. After Ottawa forced a fumble at its own one-yard line, the Redblacks quickly turned the next play into a safety at 8:43 as Anthony Coombs was tackled in the end zone on a running play. Ottawa did score 10 points before the end of the quarter. Ward booted a 23-yard field goal, then Evans threw a 14-yard touchdown pass to Kenny Staf- ford on the final play of the first. Both scores were set up by punt returns of 69 and 47 yards. Dedmon’s injury status wasn’t immediately known following the game. Montreal responded in the second with a 27-yard Cote field goal at 4:17 to make it 15-10. Shiltz then split two defenders and hit Jake Wieneke on a 50-yard touchdown pass at 9:30 for a 22-10 lead. “On our first drive I dropped one in the end zone, and I wanted that one back,” Wieneke said. “That was a great ball by Shiltz, “I knew if I got another chance I had to come down with it. We made eye contact going deep and I’m not sure how he got it right through the defenders but I’m glad it happened and I’m glad I got another shot to redeem myself.” Cote increased Montreal’s lead to 25-10 at 13:02 with a 24-yard field goal. Ward cut the deficit to 25-13 with a 45-yard field goal on the last play of the half. — The Canadian Press Montreal defence sacks Ottawa quarterbacks 10 times Rookie QB leads Als past Redblacks ALOUETTES 27 REDBLACKS 16 VANCOUVER — Bo Levi Mitchell and the Calgary Stampeders continued their surge up the CFL standings Sat- urday with a dominant 39-10 win over the B.C. Lions. Mitchell threw for 270 yards and a touchdown, completing 22-of-32 attempts. He hooked up with Luther Hakunavanhu in the end zone in the first quarter. Kicker Renee Paredes added six field goals for the Stampeders (5-5), including a 45-yard effort in the third quarter. B.C.’s Michael Reilly was held to 145 yards passing and connected on just 13-of-25 attempts. The veteran quarter- back was sacked three times. Backup Nathan Rourke threw for 115 yards for the Lions (4-5), who suffered their third-straight loss. The win was Calgary’s third straight, following consecutive wins over the Saskatchewan Roughriders. The Stam- peders moved into third in the West Division while B.C. now sits in fourth with a game in hand. Calgary already held a commanding lead midway through the fourth when Darnell Sankey tipped Reilly’s pass and Raheem Wilson intercepted. The play set up another success- ful drive for the Stampeders, capped with an 18-yard field goal by Paredes. Fans began streaming towards the exits with five minutes left on the game clock after Calgary centre back Jonathan Moxey picked off a high, arc- ing Reilly pass and sprinted 53 yards into the end zone to put Calgary up 38- 10. Paredes added another point with a successful convert. B.C. appeared poised to get its sec- ond touchdown of the night with just under 90 seconds to go. But Rourke’s pass sailed wide of Shaq Johnson in the end zone and the Lions instead turned the ball over on downs. The Lions started strong Saturday, with Reilly finding Bryan Burnham along the sidelines for a 43-yard gain 5:20 into the first. Rourke scored on a one-yard run to give B.C. an early 6-0 lead. Calgary replied with a steady 13- play, 85-yard drive that ended with Mitchell lobbing a 16-yard TD toss to Hakunavanhu. It was the York University prod- uct’s first-ever CFL touchdown. The Stampeders went up 7-6 after Paredes’ convert and they never relinquished the lead. The second quarter saw the visitors repeatedly muscle their way into Lions’ territory and into field-goal position. Paredes made three field goals across the frame, including a 42-yard strike. B.C.’s best chance of the second came when Anthony Cioffi forced a fumble by taking down Nick Holley midfield. Lions safety Marcus Sayles picked up the ball and streaked across the field, only to see his team called for a 15-yard illegal block penalty. Calgary took a 16-6 lead into the half after B.C.’s offence sputtered, then stalled. Things went from bad to worse for the Lions at the beginning of the third as Stampeders running back Roc Thomas dodged and weaved his way across the turf for a 101-yard kickoff return TD. B.C. finally had a chance to put points on the board again 3:53 into the half with a 30-yard field goal attempt. But Jimmy Camacho’s kick sailed wide before bouncing out of bounds for the single. Minutes later, Paredes hit his fourth field goal, this one from 45 yards out, to put Calgary ahead 26-7. Camacho finally nudged the Lions into double digits with a 28-yard field goal with 1:43 left in the third. A 28-yard field goal by Paredes gave the Stampeders a comfortable 29-10 lead to start the fourth. Calgary hosts Saskatchewan next Saturday for the conclusion of a three-game season series. The belea- guered Lions will face another tough test the same night as they take on the league-leading Blue Bombers in Winnipeg. — The Canadian Press Surging Stampeders trounce struggling Lions STAMPEDERS 39 LIONS 10 GEMMA KARSTENS-SMITH DARRYL DYCK / THE CANADIAN PRESS Calgary’s Jameer Thurman (56) sacks B.C. Lions QB Michael Reilly Saturday night in Vancouver. B_04_Oct-17-21_FP_01.indd B4 2021-10-16 10:26 PM ;