3/31/25 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Monday
31 March 2025 Sports
Zaccharie Risacher scored a season-high 36 points, Dyson Daniels added 22 points and five steals while becoming Atlanta’s single-season leader, and the Hawks beat the slumping Milwaukee Bucks 145-124 on Sunday night.
Trae Young had 19 points and 19 assists, and Georges Niang finished with 17 points for the Hawks, who snapped a two-game skid.
Atlanta turned around the game after Milwaukee’s blistering start and gained control in the third quarter, outscoring the Bucks 36-17 for a 118-92 lead entering the final period.
Milwaukee closed within 133-121 on two free throws by Kevin Porter Jr. with 4:40 remaining. Risacher hit three free throws to put the Hawks up 142-123 with just over 2 ½ minutes left.
Giannis Antetokounmpo had 31 points, Porter scored 28 and Kyle Kuzma had 25 for the Bucks, who have lost four straight.
Milwaukee made 17 of 20 shots (85%) in the opening quarter, including 5 of 7 beyond the arc. Kuzma was 6 for 6, making both 3-pointers, for 14 points.
The Hawks then went ahead 82-75 at the break, their highest-scoring first half of the season. The Bucks shot 69% and Atlanta 57.1%, but the Hawks turned eight turnovers into 16 points.
Since March 5, when the Bucks were a season-best 11 games over .500, they have gone 4-9.
The Bucks host the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday.
Aaron Judge homered in his first at-bat, Jazz Chisholm Jr. homered twice and the New York Yankees went deep four more times in a 12-3 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday, a day after becoming the third team in major league history to hit nine homers in a game.
The Yankees hit a total of 15 homers and scored 36 runs as they swept the three-game series.
A day after homering three times for the third time in his career and finishing with a career-high eight RBIs, Judge hit a two-run homer off Aaron Civale (0-1) in the first inning, sending a full count 89 mph fastball into the lower left field seats.
After hitting 58 homers last season, Judge is the first Yankee with four homers in the opening three games. Judge finished with 11 RBIs in the series.
On a frigid 44-degree day, Judge was intentionally walked in the third and drew walks in the fifth and seventh innings.
The two-time MVP scored New York’s sixth run on a wild pitch following his second walk.
Chisholm homered after Judge’s intentional walk and went deep again after Judge’s third walk. Among the Yankees using a torpedo-shaped bat, Chisholm hit multiple homers for the third time since being acquired from the Marlins in July and sixth time in his career.
Ben Rice added a two-run homer as the Yankees improved to 3-0 in consecutive seasons for the first time since the 1994 and 1995 seasons.
Paul Goldschmidt, in his second career start in the leadoff spot, had three hits and hit an RBI single in New York’s five-run seventh.
Cody Bellinger lifted a sacrifice fly and Austin Wells hit an RBI groundout for the Yankees.
Jake Bauers hit a two-run homer off Marcus Stroman in the fourth and Sal Frelick hit an RBI single for the Brewers, who are 0-3 for the first time since 2015. Bauers also pitched the eighth inning for the second straight day.
Stroman allowed three runs and five hits in 4 2/3 innings. Tim Hill (1-0) got four outs for the win.
Civale allowed five runs and four hits in three innings. After the game, the Brewers said Civale was lifted because of a left hamstring issue.
Milwaukee right-hander Elvin Rodriguez will serve as an opener for Monday’s home opener against Kansas City. First pitch is at 1:10 from American Family Field.
Elsewhere in the NL Central Sunday the Giants downed the Reds 6-3, the Marlins nipped the Pirates 3-2, the Cardinals over the Twins 9-2 and the Diamondbacks beat the Cubs 10-6.
The Wisconsin Herd, NBA G League affiliate of the Milwaukee Bucks, beat the San Diego Clippers 124-119.
Stanley Umude propelled the Herd to victory with 31 points while Stephen Thompson Jr. followed
The top scorers for the San Diego Clippers were Cam Christie with 31 points and Patrick Baldwin Jr. with 30 points.
The Herd did not qualify for the playoffs but will return for the 2025-26 season.
A former Wisconsin high school standout who played in 12 games in 2023 for the Packers after being elevated from the practice squad is returning to Green Bay.
Iola native Kristian Welch was drafted out of the University of Iowa by the Baltimore Ravens in 2020. He appeared in 46 games for the Ravens from 2020 to 2022, recording 5 defensive tackles and 18 on special teams. He played his high school football for the Iola-Scandinavia Thunderbirds as a linebacker and running back, earning all-state and all-region honors and surpassing 1,000 rushing yards while also racking up 75 tackles.
In 2023, he was signed to the Packers’ practice squad, being elevated on Sept. 28 and appearing in 12 regular-season and 2 postseason games. He ranked 3rd on the team in tackles on special teams, tallying six.
Welch spent 2024 between Denver and Baltimore, recording 13 tackles in 15 games.
Welch’s sister, Karina Hass, teaches in the Iola-Scandinavia School District, where she and the brother of former Wisconsin Badgers center Tyler Biadasz work together.
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