4/21/22 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Thursday
21 April 2022 Sports
Sports for Thursday
DeMar DeRozan made sure the Chicago Bulls altered their painful recent history against the Milwaukee Bucks and gave this first-round series a fresh new start. DeRozan scored a career playoff-high 41 points and the Bulls outlasted the Bucks 114-110 on Wednesday night in Game 2. Nikola Vucevic added 24 points and 13 rebounds, while Zach LaVine had 20 points as the sixth-seeded Bulls beat the third-seeded Bucks for just the second time in their last 19 meetings. The series is tied at a game-apiece with game three Friday night in Chicago.
The big question now is what shape the Bucks will be when the series resumes. Bobby Portis left the game with a right eye abrasion after the first quarter and Khris Middleton exited with 6:49 left after his left leg gave out while he tried to plant on a spin move. Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer said after the game that Middleton has a sprained medial collateral ligament and will undergo an MRI on Thursday. Budenholzer said that Portis “should be fine with some time.”
Giannis Antetokounmpo led the Bucks with 33 points, 18 rebounds and nine assists, putting him one assist from his second career playoff triple-double. Antetokounmpo increased his career postseason point total to 1,715 to overtake Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1,692) for the most in Bucks history. Brook Lopez had 25 points for the Bucks. Khris Middleton scored 18 and Jrue Holiday 15.
DeRozan scored eight points during a 13-0 run that began late in the third quarter and gave the Bulls a 96-80 lead with 9:47 remaining. The Bulls still led by 15 before Milwaukee rallied in the final 7 ½ minutes.
Chicago bounced back from a 93-86 Game 1 loss and continued to show the grit that had been missing late in the regular season, particularly when the Bulls were facing top teams.
The Bucks George Hill missed a third straight game with an abdominal strain. Budenholzer said before Game 2 that Hill isn’t expected back I the short term and that the team will monitor how the 35-year-old Hill guard progresses over the next “handful
of days or more,” … The Bucks had 15 turnovers to increase their series total to 36.
Brandon Woodruff pitched hitless ball into the sixth inning, Rowdy Tellez homered for the second straight day and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-2 Wednesday for a three-game sweep. Woodruff (2-1) gave up just one hit, a one-out single by former teammate Daniel Vogelbach in the sixth. After pitching five shutout innings in a win over St. Louis in his last outing, Woodruff struck out nine and walked two in six scoreless innings to beat the Pirates. The two-time All-Star struck out Bryan Reynolds three times and Ben Gamel and Josh VanMeter twice each.
Josh Hader earned his sixth save in six tries, finishing off Milwaukee’s fourth straight win.
Tellez gave the NL Central champions a 1-0 lead with a home run in the second inning. He fouled off five pitches from Mitch Keller (0-3) before hitting a 96 mph fastball 394 feet.
Keller held Milwaukee to one run on four hits in 5⅓ innings, striking out seven. He had given up eight earned runs in 7⅔ innings in his first two starts.
Keston Hiura extended Milwaukee’s lead to 4-0 with a three-run homer in the seventh. His 400-foot shot to the opposite field in right came off Miguel Yajure.
Pittsburgh scored only five runs in the three-game series.
The Brewers are off today before starting a three-game set in Philadelphia on Friday. RHP Freddy Peralta (0-1, 11.57 ERA) faces Phillies LHP Ranger Suárez (1-0, 5.87 ERA).
Elsewhere in the NL Central Wednesday, the Padres shut out the Reds 6-0, the Rays beat the Cubs 8-2 and the Cardinals blanked the Marlins 2-0.
The Packers enter the fourth day of their offseason workout program. Receiver Randall Cobb talks about a receiving corps that will be without the services of Davante Adams, who signed with the Oakland in the offseason. He said the unit, which recently acquired wide receiver Sammy Watkins, will just have to adapt, like it does every year. Cobb returned for his second stint with the Packers last season.
Sports for Thursday
High School Baseball (Thurs.)
Winneconne at Ripon
Waupun at Berlin
Kettle Moraine Lutheran at Plymouth
Kiel at Kewaskum
Omro at Winnebago Lutheran
Campbellsport at Laconia
Mayville at Lomira
North Fond du Lac at Saint Mary’s Springs
Beaver Dam at DeForest
Seymour at Xavier
West De Pere at Shawano
Menominee Indian at Weyauwega-Fremont
Pittsville at Wild Rose
Oshkosh West at Fond du Lac
Hortonville at Appleton North
Kaukauna at Appleton East
Appleton West at Kimberly
Neenah at Oshkosh North
Clintonville at Wrightstown
Little Chute at Luxemburg-Casco
Wautoma at Westfield
Wisconsin Dells at Adams-Friendship
Nekoosa at Mauston
Pardeeville at Cambria-Friesland – Doubleheader
Central Wisconsin Christian at Markesan
Lourdes Academy at Green Lake Princeton – Doubleheader
Montello at Wayland Academy
Oakfield at Randolph
Fall River at Rio
Horicon at Parkview – Doubleheader
Hustisford Dodgeland at Palmyra-Eagle
Girl’s Softball (Thurs.)
Ripon at Kewaskum
Berlin at Princeton/Green Lake
Winneconne at Waupun
Campbellsport at Laconia – Doubleheader
Mayville at Lomira
North Fond du Lac at Saint Mary’s Springs – Doubleheader
Omro at Winnebago Lutheran Academy
DeForest at Beaver Dam
New London at Seymour
Xavier at Shawano
Menominee Indian at Weyauwega-Fremont
Tri-County at Port Edwards
Pittsville at Wild Rose
Oshkosh West at Fond du Lac
Hortonville at Appleton North
Kaukauna at Appleton East
Appleton West at Kimbelry
Neenah at Oshkosh North
Wautoma at Mauston
Adams-Friendship at Westfield
Wisconsin Dells at Nekoosa
Cambria-Friesland at Lourdes Academy – Doublehader
Wayland Academy at Markesan
Randolph at Montello – Doublehader
Oakfield at Pardeeville – Doubleheader
Dodgeland/Hustisford at Palmyra-Eagle
Fall River at Rio
Horicon at Parkview
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