Esks’ Sherritt out for season

EDMONTON — The Edmonton Eskimos have lost linebacker J.C. Sherritt for the entire Canadian Football League season after he suffered a ruptured left Achilles tendon. Sherritt suffered the injury in the second quarter of the Eskimos victory over the B.C. Lions on Saturday. Sherritt, a fivefoot-nine, 220-pound native of Truckee, Calif., was the CFL’s most outstanding defensive player in 2012 when he recorded 122 defensive tackles. He recorded 70 or more tackles in each of the past two seasons.