Teddy Stiga scored on a breakaway at 8:04 of 3-on-3 overtime to give the United States a 4-3 victory over Finland on Sunday night in the world junior hockey championship game in Ottawa, Ontario.

The Boston College winger collected a pass from Denver’s Zeev Buium and beat goalie Petteri Rimpinen through the leg pads to end it.

The Americans avenged a 4-3 overtime loss to Finland in group play, overcoming a two-goal deficit in the second period to win their second straight title and seventh overall.

Boston University teammates Brandon Svoboda and Cole Hutson scored late in the second period to tie it. Svoboda cut it to 3-2 with 2:22 left on a deflected shot, and Hutson fired a wrist shot from the slot past Rimpinen with 29 seconds remaining.

Michigan State’s Trey Augustine made 20 saves.

Tuomas Uronen gave Finland a 2-1 lead with 6:57 left in the first period, 59 seconds after Boston College’s James Hagens tied it for the United States. Emil Pieniniemi made it 3-1 at 4:52 of the second.

Jesse Kiiskinen opened the scoring at 7:13.

In the third-place game, Eduard Sale scored in the 14th round of a shootout to give Czechia a 3-2 victory over Sweden.

TENNIS

Naomi Osaka’s Australian Open campaign took on an element of doubt after the four-time Grand Slam champion and former No. 1 suffered an apparent injury while playing the final of a WTA tournament in Auckland, New Zealand.

Osaka won the first set of the final 6-4 against Denmark’s Clara Tauson when she spoke to her coach Patrick Mouratoglou, the chair umpire and a tour trainer before opting to withdraw.

The nature of her injury wasn’t immediately clear but seemed to be abdominal, not the back injury she suffered at the China Open in October and which ended her 2024 season.

Osaka was in tears as she sat waiting for the trainer. She then left the court to a subdued ovation as spectators before returning for the prizegiving.

Osaka had led 5-1 with two breaks of serve when she began to look tighter, with less power in her serve. She managed to take the first set before indicating she couldn’t continue.

Osaka returned to tennis at the start of 2024 after a lengthy break following the birth of her daughter, Shai.

The final was her first since her return to tennis and had she won, it would have been her first title of any kind since the 2021 Australian Open.

Coco Gauff overcame second-ranked Iga Swiatek 6-4, 6-4 in the opening singles of the United Cup mixed teams event and the United States went on to win the final by beating Poland 2-0 in Sydney.

Taylor Fritz beat Hubert Hurkacz 6-4, 5-7, 7-6 (4) at the Ken Rosewall Arena as the Americans secured their second United Cup title in three years.

MLB

Utilityman Cavan Biggio and the Kansas City Royals agreed to a minor league contract.

A son of Hall of Famer Craig Biggio, Cavan made his big league debut with Toronto in 2019. He was traded to the Dodgers June 12, released on Aug. 8 and signed with San Francisco 15 days later. He was traded to Atlanta on Sept. 7 and elected to become a free agent Nov. 1.

Biggio, 29, has a .225 career average with 51 homers, 186 RBIs and 32 stolen bases. He batted .197 with five homers and 19 RBIs in 78 games last year. Primarily a second baseman, Biggio has played all positions other than pitcher and catcher.

WINTER SPORTS

Croatian Zrinka Ljutic made it back-to-back World Cup wins in women’s slalom to take the lead in the standings.

Ljutic, 20, won her first title at Semmering, Austria, last week and quickly followed up with her second at Kranjska Gora, Slovenia Ljutic was joint-fastest with Wendy Holdener in their first run, then 0.16 seconds faster than the Swiss skier in the second.

Therese Johaug claimed her fourth Tour de Ski cross country skiing victory by winning the final stage climb up Mount Cermis in Italy.