National Sports

OSAKA, Japan — Canada's women's basketball team has officially clinched a spot in the FIBA World Cup with a dominant 96-64 win over Bosnia and Herzegovina in qualifying.

BEIJING — Meryeta O'Dine didn't expect her second Olympic medal would come down to a crawling contest.

BEIJING (AP) — Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva will find out Monday if she can skate in the Winter Olympics women's competition, which starts a day later.

EDMONTON — It didn’t take long for Jay Woodcroft to get his first NHL win as head coach of the Edmonton Oilers.

DALLAS (AP) — Jason Robertson scored at 3:10 of overtime to give the Dallas Stars a 4-3 win over the Winnipeg Jets on Friday night.

Friday's Games NHL Dallas 4, Winnipeg 3 Edmonton 1, N.Y. Islanders 1 Tampa Bay 4, Arizona 3 Seattle 4, Anaheim 3 --- AHL Abbotsford 8, Manitoba 2 Ontario at Stockton, 10 p.m.

BRANDON, Man. — The Broncos needed an overtime winner to overcome the Wheat Kings on Friday night. Cole Nagy had a goal and an assist in the win for the Broncos (16-23-4-1).

ZHANGJIAKOU, China — Canada's Meryeta O'Dine was focused on popping out of a roller and gaining more ground in the mixed team snowboard cross big final at the Beijing Olympics when a body flew into her, knocking her to the ground.

LIVONIA, Mich.

BOSTON — Gabriela DeBues-Stafford continued her assault of the Canadian track and field record book on Friday.