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LONDON, Ont. Anthony Tucker Jersey . — Anthony Stolarz stopped 29 shots and Max Domi had three assists as the London Knights blanked the visiting Windsor Spitfires 4-0 on Saturday in Ontario Hockey League action. Bo Horvat, Chris Tierney and Mitchell Marner each had a goal and an assist for the Knights (17-5-2), who are 9-0-1 in their last 10 contests, while Ryan Rupert added a single goal. Defenceman Trevor Murphy was a team-worst minus-3 for the Spitfires (15-8-0), who had their four-game win streak halted. Windsors Alex Fotinos allowed four goals on 34 shots and was relieved by Dalen Kuchmey, who stopped the three shots he faced in the final 11 minutes of the game. London went 1 for 1 on the power play while the Spitfires failed to score on three chances with the man advantage. — OTTERS 5 WOLVES 2 ERIE, Pa. — Dane Fox scored twice and set up one more as the Otters downed Sudbury. Dylan Strome, Adam Pelech and Connor McDavid also scored for Erie (20-4-1) and Connor Brown tacked on three assists. Craig Duininck and Ray Huether responded for the Wolves (10-9-6), who lost for the first time in three outings. Devin Williams made 37 saves for the Otters as Sudburys Franky Palazzese turned aside 32-of-37 shots in defeat. — PETES 4 ICEDOGS 2 PETERBOROUGH, Ont. — Andrew DAgostini stopped 31 shots as the Petes doubled up Niagara. Steven Lorentz, Stephan Nosad and Josh MacDonald gave Peterborough (10-13-3) a 3-0 lead early in the second period and Nick Ritchie added another goal into an empty net late in the third. Eric Ming and Mitchell Fitzmorris scored for the IceDogs (6-15-4), who are winless in seven games. Christopher Festarini gave up three goals on 32 shots for Niagara. — STORM 6 WHALERS 2 PLYMOUTH, Mich. — Defenceman Zac Leslie scored four goals as Guelph toppled the Whalers. Matthew Mancina stopped 42-of-44 shots for the Storm (18-4-3), who have just one regulation-time loss in their last 17 games, and Jason Dickinson and Brock McGinn added a goal apiece. Matt Mistele and Carter Sandlak supplied the scoring for for Plymouth (10-14-1). Alex Nedeljkovic turned aside 47-of-52 shots for the Whalers. — SPIRIT 6 STING 2 SAGINAW, Mich. — Sean Callaghan scored twice and Jimmy Lodge had a goal and two assists as the Spirit defeated Sarnia. Justin Kea and Dylan Sadowy had a goal and an assist each for Saginaw (14-8-3) while Daniel De Sousa added a single goal. The Sting (8-16-1) got goals from Jimmy McDowell and Nikolay Goldobin. Nikita Serebryakov made 23 saves for the Spirit while Taylor Dupuis stopped 40-of-46 shots for Sarnia. — BATTALION 2 COLTS 1 (SO) BARRIE, Ont. — Blake Clarke scored the shootout winner as North Bay edged the Colts. After two scoreless periods, Battalion (12-12-1) forward Barclay Goodrow made it 1-0 just over 11 minutes into the second. Mitchell Theoret forced overtime when he scored for the Colts (13-8-3) at 17:05. Danil Gibl made 38 saves for North Bay while Jake Smith stopped 22 shots for Barrie. — ATTACK 4 BULLS 3 OWEN SOUND, Ont. — Jaden Lindo scored once and set up two more as the Attack handed Belleville its fourth straight defeat. Gemel Smith and Kyle Hope each had a goal and an assist for Owen Sound (11-10-4) while Holden Cook scored the other. Jake Worrad, Garrett Hooey and Cameron Brace scored for the Bulls (5-16-4) and Brendan Gaunce had two assists. Brandon Hope made 25 saves for the Attack. In his first OHL start, Braydon Banitsiotis stopped 26-of-30 shots for Belleville. Rod Thorn Jersey . Fifth-seeded Cilic gained his fourth title in Zagreb and became the third Croat overall to win at least 10 career titles. Cilic also lifted his career record in Zagreb to 22-4, winning 20 of his last 21 matches at the event. Calbert Cheaney Jersey . Colorado came up big against Chicago last spring, and repeated that performance Tuesday night. Varlamov stopped 36 shots and Paul Stastny had a goal and an assist for the Avalanche in a 5-1 victory over the Blackhawks. TORONTO — Canada may have been within a couple of points of knocking off a Tier 1 rugby team Saturday, but there was no celebrating in the Canadian locker-room after the game. A controversial penalty in the dying minutes made sure of that. The Canadians dropped a 19-17 decision to Scotland in an international Test match at BMO Field — a country that sits a full eight positions higher than them on the world rankings. But Canada was in position to win with five minutes to go when the referee reversed his decision on a call, after originally awarding Canada a penalty kick. „Im gutted actually for the guys, they really put it all in,“ said Canadian coach Kieran Crowley. „Positives are . . . we ran a Tier 1 country to two points, thats a pretty good effort.“ On the controversial play in the 75th minute, Canadian flanker Jebb Sinclair had the ball, his forearm made contact with Ruaridh Jackson, and the Scottish player was knocked out cold. The referee initially awarded a penalty kick to Canada, but reversed the call after reviewing video. „I dont know what you mean to do with your elbow in that situation when a guy gets his head on the wrong side,“ Crowley said „He refereed it how he saw it, and I thought it was the wrong decision. But thats the way he sees it.“ Jeff Hassler scored Canadas lone try while James Pritchard booted for 12 Canadian points. Grant Gilchrist scored the single try for Scotland, while Greig Laidlaw kicked four penalties and a conversion. Hassler scored in the 23rd minute, after Ciaran Hearn broke through the Scottish midfield and sprinted 30 metres down the sideline in front of a red-and-clad crowd of 18,788 fans — plus the odd Scottish fan dressed in a kilt — at BMO Field. „Its always good to get one on the board early in front of the home fans, it was a bit of a spark for us, just good team play and a good finish,“ Hassler said. The Canadians were looking to bounce back from a 34-25 loss to Japan in a Pacific Nations Cup game a week earlier in Burnaby, B.C. — an ugly affair that saw the Canadians give up 25 unanswered points in the second half. While it was expected the No. 16-ranked Canadians would be in for a much tougher afternoon against the eighth-ranked Scots, they made Scotland work for the win — the first Scottish victory on Canadian soil. „Its pretty gutting,“ Hassler said of the close loss. „Its not the first time weve been in that position and its something that we as a Canadian team need to improve on and start knocking off some of these teams in the last couple of minutes of the game. Locker-room is pretty disappointed, but we know were right there.“ Gilchrist scored in the 27th minute, muscling his way across the try line after some strong work from the Scottish forwards. Scotland took a 13-8 lead into the dressing room at halftime. Pritchard booted four penalty kicks, plus a conversion. He had a chance to give Canada the lead with 15 minutes to play, but his kick banged off the post. He made good on his next attempt to put the Canadians up 17-16. But Laidlaw booted his fourth of the day to put the Scots back on top with eigght minutes to play. Wali Jones Jersey. Stuart Hogg also had a penalty kick for the Scots, who were coming off a 24-6 victory over the United States a week earlier in Houston. „Not happy at all with the outcome,“ said Canadian captain Tyler Ardron. „Im sure that call (on Sinclair) is whats going to be talked a lot about this week, but in all honesty I dont think it should have come down to that. I think we should have closed it out before that and its shouldnt have made a difference.“ Despite the close loss, Ardron said this game didnt sit with him any better than last weeks defeat at the hands of Japan. „Its the same feeling, I think we should have won both those games, but its not good enough to sit back and say we should have won those games,“ he said. „We have to win them. If we want to get to where we feel we should be, thats got to be our attitude.“ Scotlands coach Vern Cotter admitted the call on Sinclair that reduced Canada to 14 men „changed momentum“ of the game. „(The Canadians) were attacking at that stage,“ said Cotter, after his second game with Scotland. „Always in these games, little things make the difference. A little thing turned out to be a big thing and had a reasonably big consequence on the result.“ Cotter praised the Canadian side that is „developing rapidly.“ He added the Canadians clearly came out at the opening whistle bent on making up for last weekends disappointing result against Japan. „They were very angry, you could see in the first couple of rucks, there was a couple of exchanges, they obviously wanted to impose physically,“ Cotter said. „I think thats part of their team psyche, they enjoy that type of thing. „I think they played particularly well. . . theyre doing some good things.“ The BMO Field crowd was positive on the afternoon — another strong rugby turnout at the lakeside venue that Canadian players have dubbed their unofficial home. Some 22,566 fans squeezed into BMO Field to watch the Maori All Blacks beat the Canadians 40-15 there last November — a North American record crowd for the sport. Canadas loss to Ireland a few months earlier drew 20,396 fans to the stadium that is normally home to Major League Soccers Toronto FC. „It felt awesome,“ said Ardron, who grew up in Lakefield, Ont., just north of Peterborough. „Its so hard to comment on how good it felt now after such a devastating loss, a close game like that. But having the support behind us the whole game felt great.“ The game was Scotlands first victory over Canada on Canadian soil. Canada had beaten Scotland twice at home — 24-19 in 1991 in Saint John, N.B., and 26-23 in Vancouver in 2002. Theyve met two times in Scotland, both Scottish victories — 22-2 in Edinburgh in 1995 and 41-0 in Aberdeen in 2008. The game was halted for about 10 minutes midway through the first half while medical staff attended to Scotlands Alasdair Strokosch. Strokosch was eventually wheeled off the pitch on a stretcher. The Canadians face the United States next Saturday in a Pacific Nations Cup game in Sacramento, Calif. ‚ ‚ ‚