NASCAR race to finish Monday because of rain

Martin Truex Jr. has the blueprint for how to win at Dover Motor Speedway on Mondays.

Step 1, rain on Sundays. Truex can win for the third time at the Monster Mile in Dover, Delaware, on the unconventional race day after rain stopped the action only 78 laps into the 400-mile race Sunday. Truex raced to his first NASCAR Cup win June 4, 2007, at Dover and 12 years later used another rainout to take the checkered flag on May 6, 2019.

This year’s race will resume at noon Monday with Hendrick Motorsports teammates Kyle Larson and Chase Elliott starting 1-2. Ryan Blaney is third, Truex is fourth and William Byron fifth.

Golf: Marina Alex shot a final-round 5-under 66 to win the Palos Verdes Championship in Calif., for her second LPGA Tour title. Alex broke a tie with a two-putt birdie on the par-5 16th and then parred the final two holes for a one-stroke victory over Jin Young Ko . ... Steven Alker shot a final-round 66 ofor a four-shot victory at the Insperity Invitational in The Woodlands, Texas. It was Alker’s second senior title this year.

NHL: Alex Ovechkin returned to Capitals practice after missing the final three games of the regular season with an upperbody injury. All signs point to the 36-year-old captain playing in the Caps’ Eastern Confernce first-round series opener against the Panthers on Tuesday. The Panthers also got good news with top defenseman Aaron Ekblad back at practice after missing his team’s final 21 games with a knee injury . ... All-Star goaltender Tristan Jarry will miss at least the opener of the Penguins’ East firstround series against the Rangers on Tuesday with a lower-body injury. Jarry last played April 14. Casey DeSmith will get the nod in net for the Penguins.

Tennis: Spain’s Sara Sorribes Tormo beat fourtime Grand Slam winner and former world No. 1 Naomi Osaka 6-3, 6-1 in the second round of the Madrid Open.