Baltimore Sun Sunday

Redskins top pick Payne injured, is out 2-3 weeks

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Team Delle Donne’s of the Washington Mystics led all scorers with 23 points in a 119-112 loss to Team Parker in the WNBA All-Star Game on Saturday in Minneapoli­s. Toliver, who attended Maryland, was 7-for-11 on 3-pointers. She made five 3s in the final 5 minutes of the game as Team Delle Donne came back from a 14-point deficit. But Minnesota Lynx star hit a 3-pointer of her own with 1:26 to play, pushing Team Parker's lead to six and all but sewing up her third straight Most Valuable Player award. Moore scored 18 points, grabbed eight rebounds and had six assists. She joined as the only three-time MVP of the game and became the all-time scoring leader in All-Star history, passing

mark of 108 points. Toliver had three assists and two rebounds.

(St. Frances) of the Atlanta Dream had 10 points, five rebounds and four assists for Team Parker. Eschewing the traditiona­l East-vs.-West format for the first time, the league let captains

of the Mystics and of the Los Angeles Sparks choose up sides from a pool of the top players in All-Star voting.

injured his left ankle when he was stepped on in practice, and coach said the first-round pick is expected to miss two to three weeks. This is the second consecutiv­e year the Redskins have had a defensive lineman they drafted in the first round from Alabama go down with a foot injury after had his rookie season cut short five games in because of a Lisfranc sprain. Payne shrugged off questions after practice Friday when he got rolled up on but wasn’t on the field 24 hours later and wearing a walking boot. NHL: The Washington Capitals completed their last major piece of offseason business Friday by finalizing a new contract for the physical right wing who had a career year during the team’s run to its first Stanley Cup. In a deal long expected, Washington will pay Wilson $31 million over six seasons, an average of $5.17 million, according to a news release the team sent Friday night. Wilson’s 14 goals, 21 assists and 15:59 average ice time during the regular season were career highs. The 6-foot-4, 218-pound player scored five goals and added 10 assists during the postseason. HORSE RACING: PTK LLC’s Still There, facing stakes company for the first time in just her fourth career start, took command at the top of the stretch and steadily pulled clear through the lane to post a 3½-length upset of Saturday’s $75,000 Twixt Stakes at Laurel Park. The 36th running of the 7-furlong Twixt Stakes for fillies and mares 3 and up highlighte­d an 11-race program as Laurel joined racetracks around the country on PDJF Day Across America to help raise money and awareness for the Permanentl­y Disabled Jockeys Fund. Ridden by for trainer

Still There ($14.60) completed the distance in 1 minute, 21.72 seconds . ...

millionair­e Imperial Hint, winner of the General George and Fire Plug Stakes in 2017 at Laurel, cruised by 3¾ lengths in the 6-furlong Alfred G. Vanderbilt (G1) for sprinters 3 and older at Saratoga Race Course. It was the 11th win from 17 career starts for Imperial Hint, who pushed his bankroll past $1.2 million. Eight of his wins have come in stakes, four graded. The Vanderbilt was his first Grade 1. Irish-bred Glorious Empire, based at the Fair Hill Training Center in Elkton, dead-heated for victory in the 13⁄8-mile Bowling Green (G2) on the grass. Sixth in the Henry S. Clark Stakes in April at Laurel, the 7year-old gelding has won his past two races. MINOR LEAGUE GOLF: ,a Stuart, Fla., resident from Baltimore, won his second straight Minor League Golf Tour event with a 4-under-par 68 on Thursday at The Evergreen Club in Palm City, Fla. Vennari made five birdies and a bogey to edge of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., by a stroke. Earlier in the week, Vennari won a 36-hole tournament on the West course at Fountains Country Club. BASEBALL: The Cleveland Indians sent former Orioles left-handed reliever (right knee) to Single-A Lake County for a rehabilita­tion assignment . ... The Milwaukee Brewers sent former Orioles minor league right-hander

(shoulder) to Single-A Wisconsin for a rehab assignment. —

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