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(Sports Network) - Now this is what was expected of the Toronto Blue Jays back in Spring Training. The Blue Jays have been on a tear with 11 straight wins and look to establish a franchise record for consecutive victories when they open a three-game series tonight against the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field. Toronto was predicted to turn the corner this season and didnt live up to those high expectations until the last two weeks. The club has made the AL East a bit interesting with the current winning streak and is tied with Tampa Bay at five games off the lead. A three-game sweep of the Baltimore Orioles was the last order of business for the Jays, who used a 13-5 rout of the Os on Sunday to stay on track. Edwin Encarnacion was 3-for-5 with four RBI, two runs scored and his 21st home run, Jose Bautista drove in three runs and Colby Rasmus homered in the win. The 13 runs were a season high for the Blue Jays and they last won 11 straight from June 2-13, 1987 and again from Aug. 27-Sept. 7, 1998. Toronto was 27-36 before the winning streak. "We always figured it was just a matter of time before we started playing better and it lasted longer than we expected, but thats all behind us now," Toronto manager John Gibbons said. Josh Johnson earned his first win as a Blue Jay in his eighth start of the season, allowing four runs on seven hits with five strikeouts over six-plus innings. Toronto will also visit Boston on this road trip and has won five in a row away from home. The last time the Jays lost was June 10 at the Chicago White Sox. Slated to make his fifth start of the season, Blue Jays right-hander Esmil Rogers gets the nod tonight. Rogers has won two straight trips to the hill and was last in action on Tuesday in an 8-3 triumph over Colorado. The Rockies reached Rogers for three runs -- two earned -- in 6 2/3 innings, but Torontos offense was too much to send Rogers to the loss column. Rogers, who is 3-2 with a 3.14 ERA in 27 games (4 starts), has faced the Rays three times in relief this season and is 1-0 with a 3.60 ERA in seven career relief stints against them. Tampa Bay is back at the Trop for six games versus Toronto and Detroit, and went 3-4 on a road trip against the Red Sox and New York Yankees. The Rays earned a split of four-game series at Yankee Stadium thanks to Sundays 3-1 win behind starting pitcher Chris Archer. Archer tossed six innings of one-run ball, struck out four batters and allowed only one walk. James Loney drove in two runs in the seventh inning to put the Rays ahead for good and Ben Zobrist got Tampa Bay on the board early with an RBI single in the first inning. Loney ended with three hits, as the Rays halted a two-game slide and had dropped eight of 11 contests. Adam Lind was 1-for-5 and has at least one hit in 17 of his last 20 games. "Weve done that several times this year, with what appeared to be a devastating loss we come back the next day and play well and you win in a very difficult venue," Rays manager Joe Maddon said. "So Im really proud of the way the guys handle these moments." Jeremy Hellickson will open this series on the hill for the Rays and has won four of his last five decisions. Hellickson was hammered in a 10-1 loss to Kansas City on June 13, allowing eight runs and 10 hits in 5 2/3 innings, but rebounded six days later in a win at Boston. Hellickson limited the Red Sox to a pair of runs in six innings and pushed his record to 5-3 in 15 starts with a 5.50 earned run average. The right-hander has no record and a 3.46 ERA in two starts against Toronto this season and is 3-2 with a 3.04 ERA in eight career starts in this series. Toronto has won four of seven meetings with Tampa Bay this season. 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Kyle Denbrook, a soccer player from Saint Marys University, took the CIS male athlete of the week honour. Stanley, a fourth-year business administration student from Charlottetown, scored both goals in a 2-0 win over Dalhousie on Friday and tallied again in a 1-0 win over Saint Marys on Sunday. Andy Murray won nine of 10 games to start and overwhelmed Grigor Dimitrov 6-1, 6-2, 6-2 at the US Open on Monday night. The No. 2 seed, Murray reached the quarterfinals for the 22nd time in his past 23 Grand Slam tournaments.During the changeover right before the last game, it suddenly began to rain, and play was delayed only slightly before the shower passed. The new retractable roof at Arthur Ashe Stadium was not closed.I played extremely well. Tactically, played a good match, Murray said. And I served very well when I was behind in the games. Got a lot of free points with my serve, and that was important.He was credited with one serve at 141 mph, which he said would be the first of his career that topped 140.I served one at 145 in San Jose, but the next day, Murray said with a smile, they recalibrated the gun because it was completely wrong.The 2012 champion at Flushing Meadows will face No. 6 seed Kei Nishikori in the quarterfinals Wednesday. Nishikori earned a straight-sets victory over No. 21 seed Ivo Karlovic.Nishikori, the 2014 runner-up, won 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (4) on Monday in the last singles match at the current Louis Armstrong Stadium, which will be torn down after the tournament. A new venue to be built to replace it.Karlovic, 37, was the oldest man to reach a Grand Slam round of 16 since Jimmy Connors at the 1991 U.S. Open. At 6-foot-11, Karlovic set a tournament record with 61 aces in a five-set win in the first round.Unlike Murray and Nishikori, two-time major champion Stan Wawrinka had a tougher road to the quarterfinals.Wawrinka blew a lead and smashed a racket, but he eventually pulled out a four-set victory to reach a fourth straight US Open quarterfinal.After saving a match point in a five-set win in his last outing, Wawrinka was cruising against 63rd-ranked Illya Marchenko, who was playing in his first Grand Slam round of 16. Serving for the match in the third set, the third-seeded Wawrinka was broken and then lost a tiebreaker.After going down a break early in the fourth set, Wawrinka took his frustrations out on his racket. He proceeded to win the next four games to regain control oon the way to a 6-4, 6-1, 6-7 (5), 6-3 victory Monday.ddddddddddddMarchenko had dropped the first set of his third-round match against 14th-seeded Nick Kyrgios but won the next two as the Australian struggled with a hip injury that eventually forced him to retire.Wawrinka next faces 2009 US Open champ Juan Martin del Potro, who beat Wawrinka at Wimbledon this year.Del Potro is back in the quarterfinals after Dominic Thiem retired in the second set of their match.The eighth-seeded Thiem took a medical timeout to have trainers look at his right knee after the sets fifth game. He returned to the court for one point before deciding he couldnt go on.Thiem said his knee started hurting three days earlier, and he speculated it was the indirect result of blisters on his feet -- he needed to alter his gait to compensate. Late in the first set Monday, it started getting worse. He didnt want to take any risks with a knee injury and planned to get an MRI.I couldnt bend it too much the last three days, he said. So I was all the time a little bit handicapped.Del Potro had won the first set 6-3 and was up a break in the second.Thiem, who turned 23 on Saturday, has had a breakthrough year, reaching the French Open semifinals and cracking the top 10. But the long season was starting to wear on his body.Del Potro knows all about that. He missed the tournament the past two years after surgeries on his left wrist. But his stunning run to the Olympic silver medal signaled that he is a contender again.Del Potro got a huge break Monday when he spent only 72 minutes on court. He has played just 10-plus sets through four rounds, but still expects to be the underdog.[Wawrinka] will be the favorite to win in that match, del Potro insisted, before adding: But anything can happen in this event for me. I got the power from the crowd in every match.At No. 142, del Potro is the lowest-ranked US Open quarterfinalist since Jimmy Connors in 1991.Information from The Associated Press was used in this report. ' ' '