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Legion baseball

Kyle Clayton and Anthony Dellapenna each drove in two runs to help Jefferson-Morgan stop Smithfield 7-5 in a Fayette County Legion Baseball game.

Clayton had a two-run single in the bottom of the sixth and Dellapenna doubled in his two. Tyler Zelenick had two singles and Bryce Bedilion picked up the win for J-M (4-6).

Dylan Rush had a double and scored twice for Smithfield (4-5).

At The Meadows

Pilgrims Tide exploded first over down the backside, opened up a daylight lead and rolled home to victory – his second straight – in Tuesday’s feature at The Meadows, a $13,000 Conditioned Trot.

Dismissed at 8-1, Pilgrims Tide was third when Dan Rawlings sent him after the leader, Goodtogo Hanover. The 5-year-old Muscle Massive-Raysofgrace De Vie gelding was ahead by 3 lengths before the field turned for home, ultimately downing the 4-5 favorite, Swell Chap, by a length in 1:54.4. Chef Lee shot the Lightning Lane for show.

Sarah Andrews trains Pilgrims Tide for Sandbur Farms, Valarie Sutton and Joseph Hemingway.

Aaron Merriman and Dave Palone each collected four wins on the 13-race card.

Penguins

re-sign Rust

The Pittsburgh Penguins have re-signed forward Bryan Rust to a four-year contract, it was announced today by executive vice president and general manager Jim Rutherford.

The deal runs through the 2021-22 campaign, and it carries an average annual value of $3.5 million.

Rust, 26, finished off a career year in the 2017-18 regular season, setting highs in assists (25) and points (38) in 69 games.

He had three goals in 12 playoff games during the 2018 postseason. Rust played some of his best hockey in the second half, when he returned from injury on January 23 and proceeded to record 20 points (9G-11A) and a plus-17 over his final 31 games. Three of his nine goals in that span were game-winners.

Already a two-time Stanley Cup champion, the 5-foot-11, 192-pound Rust has proven to be a clutch playoff performer with 11 points (10G-1A) in 18 career playoff elimination games. He added to that stat in the 2018 playoffs, scoring goals against Philadelphia in Games 5 and 6 during the Penguins’ First Round series victory.

A native of Pontiac, Michigan, Rust had a helping hand in a pair of Stanley Cups, scoring the series-clinching game-winning goals against Columbus and Washington in the 2017 postseason. He also scored both of Pittsburgh’s goals in the 2-1 Game 7 defeat of the Tampa Bay Lightning in the 2016 Eastern Conference Final.

In the majors

New York Mets general manager Sandy Alderson is taking a leave of absence because his cancer has returned. He does not expect to return to the job – in part because he doesn’t think it’s warranted. The team is in a massive tailspin because of injuries and underperformance.

Assistant general manager John Ricco and special assistants J.P. Ricciardi and Omar Minaya will run the team’s baseball operations in Alderson’s absence.

  • Nathan Eovaldi took a no-hitter into the sixth inning as the Tampa Bay Rays beat Max Scherzer and the Washington Nationals 1-0. Eovaldi lost his no-hit bid when Bryce Harper hit an opposite-field double off the left-field wall with two outs in the sixth. An unusual combination of relievers in the ninth completed a three-hitter. Sergio Romo got his sixth save.
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