BASEBALL
Matthew Lugo smashed a two-run homer in the bottom of the seventh inning Sunday as the Portland Sea Dogs capped their Eastern League series against the Reading Fighting Phils with a 2-1 win at Hadlock Field.
Lugo’s home run, his seventh of the season, followed a leadoff walk to Nick Yorke. Lugo was 2 for 2 with a walk, raising his batting average to .354 and his OPS to 1.247. He leads the Eastern League in both categories and is second with 22 RBI in only 19 games.
Isaac Coffey, Jacob Webb and Felix Cepeda combined on a four-hitter. Coffey gave up two hits and three walks while striking out three in six innings.
The Sea Dogs won 5 of 6 against the Fightin Phils to move back into first place in the Northeast Division with a 16-9 record.
HOCKEY
NHL: Mika Zibanejad had two goals and an assist, Artemi Panarin also scored, and the New York Rangers beat the Carolina Hurricanes 4-3 in Game 1 of their second-round series in New York.
Vincent Trocheck had a goal and an assist, and Chris Kreider added two assists for the Rangers, who were playing for the first time since completing their first-round sweep of Washington one week earlier.
AUTO RACING
FORMULA ONE: Lando Norris needed 110 starts and a mistake by Max Verstappen to earn his first victory, ending Verstappen’s dominance at the Miami Grand Prix.
Verstappen, who started from the pole and won Saturday’s sprint race, was out front when he hit a chicane and knocked a cone out of place. It forced the three-time reigning F1 champion to pit and gave Norris the lead.
The 24-year-old driver for McLaren then controlled the race to give his team its first win since 2021.
Norris’ margin of victory was 7.6-seconds over Verstappen of Red Bull. Ferrari drivers Charles Leclerc and Sainz finished third and fourth, followed by Sergio Perez of Red Bull.
GOLF
PGA: Taylor Pendrith took advantage of Ben Kohles’ final-hole meltdown to win the CJ Cup Byron Nelson in McKinney, Texas, for his first PGA Tour title.
Kohles overtook Pendrith with birdies on Nos. 16 and 17 for a one-shot lead but bogeyed the 18th after hitting his second shot into greenside rough. After having to chip twice from the rough, Kohles missed a 6-foot putt that would have forced a playoff.
Pendrith two-putted for birdie on the 18th, holing a 3-footer for a 4-under 67 and 23-under 261 total at the TPC Craig Ranch. The 32-year-old Canadian won in his 74th career PGA Tour start.
LIV: Brooks Koepka shot a 3-under 68 to win the LIV Golf tournament in Singapore, his fourth victory on the circuit.
Koepka finished at 15-under 198 for the three rounds, two strokes ahead of Australians Marc Leishman and Cameron Smith. Leishman finished with a 66 and Smith shot a 64 at the Sentosa Golf Club.
EUROPEAN TOUR: Adrian Otaegui overturned a five-shot deficit to win the China Open – the Spanish golfer’s fifth title on the European tour.
Otaegui shot 7-under 65 in his final round to win by one shot over Guido Migliozzi (67) with a three-day total of 18 under 208. The tournament was reduced to 54 holes after Saturday’s round was canceled by bad weather.
CHAMPIONS TOUR: Scott Dunlap was declared the 36-hole winner of the Insperity Invitational when rain washed the final round at The Woodlands, Texas, giving Dunlap his first title in nearly 10 years.
Heavy rain in the Houston area washed out the opening round Friday. Players managed to play 36 holes on Saturday, and the 60-year-old Dunlap posted rounds of 65 and 70 to take a one-shot lead over Joe Durant and Stuart Appleby.
TENNIS
MADRID OPEN: Andrey Rublev rallied to beat Felix Auger-Aliassime in three sets, winning the Madrid Open for the first time.
Rublev prevailed, 4-6, 7-5, 7-5, when Auger-Aliassime double-faulted on the last point of the clay-court tournament.
It was the second Masters 1000 title for the eighth-ranked Rublev, who won at Monte Carlo last year. Auger-Aliassime was playing in his first Masters 1000 final.
SOCCER
ENGLAND: Joao Pedro scored an 87th-minute winner as Brighton beat Aston Villa 1-0 in the Premier League, preventing the visitors from clinching Champions League qualification for next season.
Victory for Brighton ended its six-match winless run in the league and also dented Villa’s bid to secure a top-four finish.
Fourth-place Villa still leads Tottenham by seven points, with three games left for Tottenham and two for Villa.
• Mohamed Salah quickly put last week’s sideline spat with Manager Jurgen Klopp behind him, scoring the first goal in Liverpool’s 4-2 win against visiting Tottenham.
Liverpool kept its slim title hopes alive, but still trails Arsenal by five points and Manchester City by four with just two games remaining.
• Manchester United defender Harry Maguire will miss the rest of the Premier League season after suffering a muscle injury, the club said.
United said Maguire would need three weeks to recover but did not offer further details on the injury, which occurred in training.
It means he faces a race to be fit in time for the FA Cup final against Manchester City on May 25, but should be available for England for the European Championship, which starts June 14.
CYCLING
GIRO D’ITALIA: Tadej Pogačar swiftly recovered from a puncture and tumble with 11 kilometers remaining, then attacked on his own 4 kilometers from the end to secure a Stage 2 victory on the top-category uphill finish to Santuario di Oropa, Italy, earning the leader’s pink jersey.
Pogačar finished 27 seconds ahead of Daniel Martínez and Geraint Thomas at the end of an undulating 161-kilometer route from San Francesco al Campo, that featured three categorized climbs. In the overall standings, Pogačar is 45 seconds ahead of both Thomas and Martínez.
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