Liam Pauls led Team Canada with 11 points in a 3-1 (25-18, 25-10, 23-25, 25-18) loss to the United States at the NORCECA Final Six men’s volleyball tournament in Puerto Rico on Tuesday.

Pauls recorded seven kills, seven errors and four aces for Canada, which is being represented by the Brandon University Bobcats.

Canada had 20 kills and 25 errors as a team, while the U.S. posted 38 and 16.

Canada plays Mexico today at 5 p.m. CDT. The top four teams after Friday’s round-robin matches play in the semifinals on Saturday.

IN THE CITY

• FOOTBALL — Crocus Plains hosts Sturgeon Heights JV, 4 p.m.

• VOLLEYBALL — Neelin Spartans at Vincent Massey Vikings, 6 p.m. (JV) and 7:30 p.m. (varsity)

IN LOCAL HISTORY

• 60 YEARS AGO — A two-ball foursome wound up activities of the women’s section of the New Sarum Golf and Country Club in Rivers. The winners were Dorothy Forman and Isabel Stewart.

• 50 YEARS AGO — Bruce Clark scored in overtime, his second goal of the game, to give the Olympians a 2-1 win over Spartans in the deciding game of the Brandon Senior Soccer League final yesterday at Kinsmen Stadium.

• 40 YEARS AGO — The women’s high single of the week in five-pin bowling was a 285 by Bev Drummond from the Brandon Club League while the high triple of 679 was rolled by Melanie Tallant in the Wednesday Nite League.

ON TELEVISION

• NFL — Kansas City at Jacksonville, 7:15 p.m. (TSN3)

• MLB — In a pair of Game 2s, Los Angeles Dodgers at Philadelphia Phillies, 5 p.m. (SNW); Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee Brewers, 8 p.m. (SN1)

• NBA — Toronto vs. Denver 9 p.m. (TSN1)

IN LOCAL HISTORY

• 60 YEARS AGO — The Virden Golden Bears downed the Deloraine Colts 7-6 in a Southwest High School Football League game. Lloyd Carruthers scored a touch- down from inside the Colts’ five-yard line on the last play of the game. Bruce Fowler then converted the extra point to give the tension-filled game to Virden.

• 50 YEARS AGO — Garth Neville and Bob Thompson, veterans of both the Manitoba Senior Baseball League and international competition, were officially named to Canada’s Pan-American Games teams.

• 40 YEARS AGO — The Neepawa Tigers rushed for 223 yards and four touchdowns as they bounced the Dauphin Clippers 35-0 in a Rural Manitoba Double-A Football high school game. John Neufeld scored on a 47-yard run and Tony McDougall added a single in the first quarter. Then Neufeld had a four-yard run, followed by Marc Pinette and Michael Angers on three and one-yard runs, respectively.

IN LOCAL HISTORY

• 60 YEARS AGO — Rivers exploded to hand Minnedosa a 32-6 beating in the Rolling River Football league schedule. The Ram’s touchdowns came from Murray McPherson, Mike Sheen, Wayne Wagner, Larry McCullough and Jim Madder. Madder also converted two touchdowns to lead Rivers’ assault.

• 50 YEARS AGO — Neelin Spartans hammered out a 69-6 decision over Dauphin Clippers in a South West High School Football league game. John MacKay ran for 199 yards, caught four passes for an additional 132 yards, and scored four majors to bring his seasonal total to 15 — tops in the league. Joe Osinski with two, and Grant Griffith, Barry Rabe and Mark Yeomans with one apiece, scored the other Spartans touchdowns.

• 40 YEARS AGO — Earl Hodge was in top form when he rolled 100 pins over average for a 278 game and 180 pins over series for a 624 in five-pin bowling.

IN THE CITY

• VOLLEYBALL — Vincent Massey at Crocus Plains in girls’ action, 6 p.m. (JV) and 7:30 p.m. (varsity)

IN LOCAL HISTORY

• 60 YEARS AGO — Experience paid off for Eddie Dorohoy’s Whites at the arena as they drubbed the rookie-laden Golds 8-5 in the Brandon Wheat Kings’ annual intrasquad game. The Whites’ big line of Swede Juha Widing, Bill Fairbairn and Erv Ziemer, all veterans of the club, set the pace as they collected four goals.

The Brandon Wheat Kings dropped their fourth game in a row to start the Western Hockey League season, falling 5-0 to the visiting Edmonton Oil Kings at Assiniboine Credit Union Place on Saturday.

The Eastern Conference-leading Oil Kings (5-1-0-0) received their goals from Miroslav Holinka, Joe Iginla, Poul Andersen, Adam Jecho and Ethan MacKenzie, and goalie Parker Snell made 26 saves for the first Edmonton shutout over Brandon since a 9-0 thumping on Jan. 15, 2011.

Brandon fell to 0-3-1-0 in their first game since a 5-4 overtime loss to the Prince Albert Raiders a week ago. Brandon, which drew a crowd of 2,741, faces the Saskatoon Blades on Sunday at 4 o’clock.

“It’s real disheartening,” Brandon head coach and general manager Marty Murray said. “You have to live with that one a week ago for a full week and you would hope we would come out with more push in our game. We started off the first 10 minutes and didn’t have much. I thought in the last half of the first period we came along but then they seemed to get that second and third one and really deflated us.