5/9/22 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Monday
9 May 2022 Sports
Sports for Monday
Giannis Antetokounmpo found a way to get better shots and recapture his peak form just in time to help the defending champion Milwaukee Bucks regain the lead in the Eastern Conference semifinals. Antetokounmpo bounced back from a rare subpar performance by scoring 42 points and making the go-ahead basket with 44.3 seconds left in a 103-101 victory Saturday. The Bucks lead the best-of-7 series 2-1, with Game 4 on Monday night in Milwaukee.
The victory wasn’t secure until replays confirmed that Al Horford’s potential tying putback –- capping a wild sequence after Marcus Smart intentionally missed a free throw — came just after the buzzer.
Boston trailed 103-100 when officials determined Marcus Smart was fouled by Jrue Holiday just before attempting a potential tying 3-pointer with 4.6 seconds remaining. Because it was a non-shooting foul, Smart got just two free-throw attempts.
Smart made the first free throw, then missed the second intentionally — flinging a shot that went hard off the backboard before hitting the rim.
Smart got the rebound, but missed his putback attempt. Boston’s Robert Williams charged toward the basket and sent the ball up and off the glass. Horford was waiting on the right side with a putback attempt that also went off the glass. Horford then got his own rebound and banked it in, but his final shot came just after the buzzer sounded.
Jrue Holliday scored 25 points for Milwaukee.
Jaylen Brown led the Celtics with 27 points and 12 rebounds. Horford had 22 points, 15 rebounds and five assists. Boston trailed by 14 late in the third quarter and was facing a 13-point deficit with less than 10 minutes left before storming back. The Celtics pulled ahead 100-99 and took their first lead since early in their third quarter on Brown’s two free throws with 1:49 remaining.
Both teams failed to score on their next possessions before Antetokounmpo put the Bucks back ahead. Antetokounmpo then blocked Brown’s driving layup attempt, leading to Holiday’s basket that made it 103-100 with 11.2 seconds remaining.
Antetokounmpo’s winning plays in the final minute highlighted his bounce-back performance.
After shooting 38.5% (20 of 52) in the first two games of this series, Antetokounmpo went 16 of 30 on Saturday. He made 62.5% of his attempts (15 of 24) from two-point range. He had 12 rebounds and eight assists to go along with his 42 points.
Adam Duvall and William Contreras homered to help Charlie Morton win for the first time in five starts as the Atlanta Braves cranked up their bats, 9-2 over the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday. Matt Olson hit a two-run double during a four-run second inning. Duvall homered in the third off starter Aaron Ashby and Contreras added a three-run drive in the fifth off Jandel Gustave to pad the lead.
The Braves were winless over Morton’s last four starts, a stretch that included a 7.85 ERA. But the 38-year-old right-hander (2-3) pitched around three walks to allow two hits with five strikeouts in five scoreless innings. The defending World Series champions won just their second series of the season in nine tries to improve to 14-16. The Brewers have lost two straight but still lead the NL Central with a 19-10 record.
Duvall hit his second homer of the year with an opposite-field solo shot in the third to make it 5-0. Of Atlanta’s 34 homers this year, 27 have been solo shots. Contreras made it 9-0 by connecting to left field with a 436-foot shot that left his bat at 113 mph.
The Braves went up 6-0 in the fourth when Dansby Swanson scored on a wild pitch off Ashby (0-3). Ashby was charged with six hits and six runs with four walks and three strikeouts in four innings.
Morton escaped trouble with the bases loaded in the second when Lorenzo Cain struck out and Jace Peterson flied out.
The Braves took a 4-0 lead in the second on Contreras’ bases-loaded walk, Ronald Acuña Jr.’s RBI grounder and Olson’s double. Olson’s bloop hit landed in shallow left field, just out of the reach of shortstop Willy Adames, and allowed Acuña to score from first.
Milwaukee scored twice in the eighth off Tyler Matzek. Pinch-hitter Mike Brosseau had a run-scoring single and another run scored on a double-play grounder.
RHP Brandon Woodruff (3-1, 5.18 ERA) will make his sixth start as Milwaukee opens a three-game series at Cincinnati. The Reds have yet to announce a starter. First pitch is at 5:40 and the game can be heard on AM 1100/98.3 FM, WISS.
Elsewhere in the NL Central Sunday, the Giants beat the Cardinals 4-3, the Reds downed the Pirates 7-1 and the Dodgers beat the Cubs 7-1. The Brewers lead the Cardinals by 2 ½ games in the division. The Pirates are seven back, the Cubs nine and the Reds are 11 games out.
College Baseball (Fri.)
Ripon College 11- Cornell College 0 (7innings)
(Sat.)
Ripon College 6, Cornell College 5
Cornell College 2, Ripon College 1 (12 innings
UW-Oshkosh 10-5, UW-Stevens Point 7-8
College Women’s Softball
UW-Eau Claire 9, UW-Oshkosh 0 (Fri.)
UW-Oshkosh 9, UW-River Falls 0 (Fri.)
UW-Oshkosh 1, UW-Whitewater 0 (Sat.)
UW-Lacrosse 2, UW-Oshkosh 1 (Sat.)
Anyone anticipating a return to normalcy in the Kentucky Derby got a dose of crazy Saturday when an 80-1 shot came charging up the rail to win at Churchill Downs. With favorite Epicenter and Zandon engaged in a duel at the front, Rich Strike stole the show with the second-biggest upset in the Derby’s 148-year history. The chestnut colt beat 4-1 favorite Epicenter by three-quarters of a length. Zandon finished another three-quarters of a length back in third.
As the Packers kicked off their two-day rookiecamp Friday the team announced it had signed seven draft picks Friday, including LB Quay Walker, DL Devonte Wyatt, T/G Sean Rhyan, LB Kingsley Enagbare, S Tariq Carpenter, DL Jonathan Ford and WR Samori Toure.
Walker reportedly signed a four-year, $13.8 million contract, including a signing bonus of $7.2 million. Wyatt reportedly inked a four-year, $12.8 million contract, including a signing bonus of $6.5 million. The camp wrapped up Saturday afternoon.
Wisconsin has added former Wofford guard Max Klesmit as the Badgers continue reshaping their roster. Klesmit, who is from Neenah, scored 14.9 points per game for Wofford this past season and earned third-team all-Southern Conference honors. The 6-foot-3 Klesmit also had 2.8 rebounds, 1.9 assists and 1.6 steals per game. He had 8.2 points and 2.7 rebounds per game as a freshman in 2020-21.
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