National Sports

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Two foreign climbers attempting to scale Mount Everest have died on the world's highest peak, a Nepal mountaineering official said Monday.

WARSAW, Poland — Fans of a Polish soccer team that was losing in the last game of the season threw flares onto the pitch, prompting the referee to call it off early.

OAKLAND, Calif. — Stephen Curry shook, shimmied and screamed, letting his adoring fans and the Rockets know that Oracle Arena was his house. Once the two-time MVP got his groove back, Houston was helpless.

REGINA — The Acadie-Bathurst Titan talked in their dressing room during the second intermission about continuing to press the Regina Pats despite a four-goal advantage.

Sunday's Games NHL Vegas 2 Winnipeg 1 (Golden Knights win series 4-1) --- AHL Playoffs Toronto 3 Lehigh Valley 2 (OT) (Marlies lead series 2-0) Texas 3 Rockford 2 (OT) (Stars lead series 2-0) --- IIHF World Hockey Championship Gold-medal game Sweden

CHICAGO — Allie Quigley scored 15 of her 22 points in the fourth quarter to help the Chicago Sky beat the New York Liberty 80-76 on Sunday night. It was the Sky's first game at the new Wintrust Arena.

Canadian Olympic medallist Penny Oleksiak picked up her second gold medal at the Atlanta Swim Classic after finishing in first in the women's 100-metre freestyle on Sunday.

WINNIPEG — When the buzzer sounded to end the game and the season for the Winnipeg Jets on Sunday, goalie Connor Hellebuyck left the bench and went back on to the ice.

WINNIPEG — A group of players nobody wanted — the self-proclaimed 'Golden Misfits' — are heading to the Stanley Cup final.

REGINA — Jeffrey Truchon-Viel remembers one home game in his early years with the Acadie-Bathurst Titan where a snowstorm resulted in only 300 people attending K.C. Irving Regional Centre.