4/8/22 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Friday
8 April 2022 Sports
Sports for April 8th
Giannis Antetokounmpo and Jrue Holiday each scored 29 points and the Milwaukee Bucks beat the short-handed Boston Celtics 127-121 on Thursday night to take over second place in the Eastern Conference. The Bucks (50-30) scored the final nine points to move a half-game ahead of the Celtics (50-31) and a full game ahead of Philadelphia (49-31), who lost at Toronto on Thursday.
Milwaukee withstood a triple-double from Jaylen Brown, who had 22 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds for the Celtics. Marcus Smart shot 7 of 12 from 3-point range and was the Celtics’ leading scorer with a season-high 29 points. Daniel Theis had 22 points.
Khris Middleton had 22 points, nine assists and eight rebounds for the Bucks. Antetokounmpo had 11 rebounds and five assists. Holiday had eight rebounds and eight assists. The Bucks (50-30) play at Detroit (23-57) tonight and then close out the regular season Sunday at Cleveland.
Ian Happ had three hits, including a tiebreaking two-run double in the seventh inning, and the Chicago Cubs beat the Milwaukee Brewers 5-4 on Thursday on opening day. Nico Hoerner hit the majors’ first homer of 2022 and Kyle Hendricks pitched neatly into the sixth, leading Chicago to the victory on a chilly, overcast afternoon at Wrigley Field. Japanese outfielder Seiya Suzuki reached three times and scored in his first big league game.
On a day stuffed full of firsts and debuts, Milwaukee ace Corbin Burnes and catcher Omar Narváez became the first battery to use baseball’s new electronic pitch-calling system in a regular-season game. The 2021 NL Cy Young Award winner allowed three runs and four hits in five innings.
Suzuki singled in the fifth for his first big league hit and walked twice. The 27-year-old finalized an $85 million, five-year contract with Chicago in March in the Cubs’ biggest move of the offseason.
Andrew McCutchen, Willy Adames and Rowdy Tellez each had two hits for Milwaukee, and Lorenzo Cain drove in two runs. McCutchen served as the designated hitter in his first game with his new team after agreeing to a one-year deal last month.
The Brewers erased a 3-1 deficit with two runs in the seventh, but the Cubs went ahead to stay in the bottom half. With runners on the corners and two outs, Happ hit a drive off Jake Cousins that caromed off the wall in center. Clint Frazier and Willson Contreras scored on Happ’s second double of the day.
The reigning NL Central champions got one back on Cain’s sacrifice fly in the eighth, but David Robertson worked the ninth for his first save since 2018 and No. 138 for his career.
Aaron Ashby (0-1) got the loss. He was charged with one run and three hits in 1 2/3 innings. Making his third consecutive opening-day start, Hendricks permitted one run and three hits in 5 1/3 innings. The right-hander, who had a career-high 4.77 ERA last year, struck out seven and walked three.
Chris Martin (1-0) got two outs for the win in his Cubs debut.
The two teams meet again this afternoon as the Brewers send right-hander Brandon Woodruff to the mound against Cubs left-hander Justin Steele. First pitch is at 1:20 and the game be heard on AM 1100/98.3 FM, WISS.
Most of the attention centered on Tiger Woods Thursday in the first round of the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club and Woods responded with a one-under par 71. The five-time Masters champion made three birdies, a pair of bogeys and a lot of solid pars — many of them salvaged by his deft touch around the greens. Woods trails leader Sungjae by four strokes entering the second round today. Cameron Smith is in second, one stroke behind at 68 while Danny Willett, Joaquin Nieman, Scottie Scheffler and Dustin Johnson are two strokes off the pace after shooting 69’s.
High School Baseball (Thurs.)
Kettle Moraine Lutheran 3, Kewaskum 1
Wautoma 2, Mosinee 1
High School Baseball (Fri.)
Campbellsport at Kettle Moraine Lutheran
Watertown Luther Prep at Waupun
Omro at Random Lake
Kewaskum at Lomira
Appleton East at Fox Valley Luthern
Oshkosh North at Menasha
Hillsboro at Mauston
Wisconsin Dells at Baraboo
Girls Softball (Thurs.)
Deerfield 15, Rio 0
Girls Softball (Fri.)
Wautoma at Berlin
Jefferson at Mayville
Oshkosh West at Beaver Dam
Wild Rose at Weyauwega-Fremont
Manawa at Tri-County
Fall River at Cambria-Friesland
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