Rugby

Canada will be without four-try hero Tyler Ardron for Saturday's Pacific Nations Cup rugby game against Japan in Sendai.

LONDON (AP) — Fiji prop Bulou Vasuturaga and Samoa center Melina Grace Salale have received three-match bans for their red cards at the Women's Rugby World Cup. They will miss the rest of the pool matches for their teams.

While Canada's rugby union women chase the World Cup in England, the Canada Ravens rugby league team is in Fiji preparing for its own World Cup qualifier.

New Zealand began its defense of the Women’s Rugby World Cup by scratching a 54-8 win over Spain in York on Sunday.

BUENOS AIRES (AP) — The Pumas broke out of a 13-13 halftime deadlock to score 16 second half points and to beat the All Blacks 29-23 in the second Rugby Championship test Saturday, for its first win over New Zealand in Argentina.

Six tries by Canada fullback Julia Schell led three try hat tricks in the Women’s Rugby World Cup on Saturday. Schell scored all six in a row in 22 minutes in the second half as Canada hammered Fiji 65-7 in York.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa edged Australia 30-22 and kept alive its hopes of retaining the Rugby Championship crown on Saturday.

YORK — Julia Schell scored six tries Saturday as Canada hammered Fiji 65-7 for an emphatic opening win at the Women's Rugby World Cup. Schell scored all of her tries in a row after halftime for the world No. 2 Canadians.

Backrower Tyler Ardron scored four tries to mark his return to test rugby from a four-year absence to lead Canada to a surprising 34-20 win over the United States in the opening match of the Pacific Nations Cup at Calgary, Alberta.

CALGARY — Former captain Tyler Ardron scored four tries in his return to the national team and Canada reeled off 17 unanswered points in the second half to defeat the U.S. 34-20 in Pacific Nations Cup rugby play Friday.