Steven Stamkos had two goals and an assist and Andrei Vasilevskiy notched his fourth career playoff shutout, helping the Lightning rout the Islanders 8-0 in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup semifinal series on Monday night in Tampa, Florida.

The defending Cup champions improved to 13-0 in games following a postseason loss since launching their 2020 title run and will take a 3-2 series lead over the Islanders into Game 6 of their best-of-seven matchup Wednesday night in Uniondale, New York.

Stamkos ignited a three-goal opening period — the first against the Islanders all season — by scoring just 45 seconds into the game. His power-play goal at 5:42 of the second began another three-goal period that made it 6-0.

Alex Killorn finished with two goals, Brayden Point delivered his 13th of the playoffs, and postseason scoring leader Nikita Kucherov extended his career-best playoff points streak to eight games with three assists for the Lightning, who haven’t lost consecutive playoff games since being swept by the Blue Jackets in the first round in 2019.

Point has scored a goal in eight straight games, the second-longest stretch within a single postseason in NHL history.

College baseball: Freshman Tanner Witt pitched 5 2/3 innings of shutout relief, Silas Ardoin hit a tie-breaking, two-run single, and Texas eliminated Tennessee from the College World Series with an 8-4 victory Tuesday in Omaha, Nebraska. The No. 2 national seed Longhorns (48-16) picked up their first CWS win since 2014 while No. 3 Tennessee (50-18) went two-and-out in its first appearance since 2005. Witt (5-0) allowed only three singles, walked none and struck out two in his longest outing of the season. He pitched three 1-2-3 innings and no Tennessee runners made it past first base after the fourth inning. On Monday night, Terrell Tatum’s fifth-inning HR spoiled a dominant performance by national strikeout leader Jack Leiter and allowed NC State (37-18) to take control of its CWS bracket with a 1-0 win over Vanderbilt. Leiter and Wolfpack starter Sam Highfill dueled most of the unseasonably cool evening, with Leiter striking out 15 in eight innings and Highfill limiting the defending champion Commodores (46-16) to two hits through 7 1/3. Leiter matched the 15 strikeouts by Mississippi State’s Will Bodnar against Texas on Sunday, which was the most by a pitcher in a nine-inning CWS game in 25 years. Leiter leads the nation with 171. Highfill (9-2) struck out seven and let one of the nation’s best defenses take care of the rest with six flyouts and nine groundouts.

Olympics: Swimmer Sun Yang of China was banned more than four years for breaking anti-doping rules after a retrial at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The court’s verdict ends Sun’s hopes of defending his 200-meter freestyle title in Tokyo next month. The ban is backdated to February 2020, meaning Sun could return for the 2024 Paris Olympics, when he would be 32. Sun’s original eight-year ban was overturned on appeal to Switzerland’s supreme court, which ordered a fresh prosecution.

Soccer: Captain Luka Modric scored in the 62nd minute to help Croatia beat host Scotland 3-1 and advance to the last 16 at the European Championship.