BASEBALL
Kole Cottam’s bases-loaded triple capped a four-run eighth inning that carried the Portland Sea Dogs to an 8-5 win over the New Hampshire Fisher Cats in an Eastern League game Friday night in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Cottam finished 4 for 5 with four RBI. Ceddanne Rafaela went 3 for 6 and scored the go-ahead run in the eighth on a single by Christian Koss, and David Hamilton hit a solo home run.
NECBL: The Sanford Mainers (18-20) took the lead for good with a pair of unearned runs in the bottom of the seventh inning and held on for a 4-3 win over the Upper Valley Bristol Blues (27-11) at Goodall Park.
Quinn McDaniel hit a solo home run for the Mainers. Bryce Afthim picked up the victory with 12/3 innings of hitless relief, fanning two and walking one.
CYCLING
TOUR DE FRANCE: Christophe Laporte ended the host country’s drought of stage winners when he surged out of the peloton in the finale of the 19th stage and claimed his maiden win at the Tour de France.
Just two days before the race ends in Paris, Laporte became the first French winner since 2020, making his move after a trio of breakaway riders was caught with 1.5 kilometers left in the 188.5-kilometer flat stage to Cahors in southwestern France.
A support rider for overall leader Jonas Vingegaard at Jumbo-Visma, Laporte won ahead of Jasper Philipsen and Alberto Dainese.
TRACK AND FIELD
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: Turns out, Allyson Felix hasn’t run her last race. The most decorated sprinter in U.S. history will return to the world championships to race in the preliminaries of the 1,600-meter relay on Saturday in Eugene, Oregon.
She said team officials coaxed her out of her brief retirement after she helped the mixed relay team win a bronze medal last Friday in what she had said was her last major race.
The prelims of the 1,600 relay are Saturday and the final is Sunday to close out the world championships.
The third-place finish in the mixed relay gave Felix her 19th medal at world championships, extending a record she already held.
• Noah Lyles led wire to wire and routed the field in the 200 meters Thursday night in 19.31 seconds, the third-fastest time ever, to lead America’s second sprint sweep at the world championships.
Lyles blew away U.S. teammate Kenny Bednarek by 0.46 seconds, with 18-year-old Erriyon Knighton finishing third.
His victory came moments after Shericka Jackson gave the Jamaican women another gold in the sprints. She ran 21.45, the second-fastest time in history, to beat 100-meter champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.
HOCKEY
NHL: Patrik Laine signed a long-term deal to stay with the Columbus Blue Jackets, completing the final major item on team’s checklist this offseason.
Even after adding top free agent Johnny Gaudreau, the Blue Jackets made room to keep Laine by trading forward Oliver Bjorkstrand to the Seattle Kraken for a third- and a fourth-round pick in the 2023 draft. Laine re-signed for four years and $34.8 million.
COLLEGES
FOOTBALL: The NCAA charged Tennessee with 18 major rules violations involving allegations of providing impermissible cash, gifts and benefits worth about $60,000 to football recruits and their families under former coach Jeremy Pruitt.
The school has until Oct. 20 to respond to the Level I violations, the most serious by NCAA standards, according to the letter it received from the association’s enforcement staff.
The NCAA notice of allegations says at least a dozen members of Pruitt’s staff were involved in more than 200 individual violations over a two-year period.
Pruitt and nine others were fired for cause in January 2021 after Tennessee started an internal investigation following a tip on Nov. 13, 2020, and found what the university chancellor called “serious violations of NCAA rules.” The firing negated Pruitt’s $12.6 million buyout after he went 16-19 in three seasons.
TENNIS
HAMBURG EUROPEAN OPEN: American Bernarda Pera will play top-seeded Anett Kontaveit in the women’s final after they won their semifinals in straight sets.
Pera, who secured her first WTA title in Budapest last week, advanced over seventh-seeded Maryna Zanevska, 6-2, 6-4.
Top-seeded Carlos Alcaraz eased into the men’s semifinals with a 6-2, 6-0 win over Karen Khachanov.
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