4/14/25 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Monday
14 April 2025 Sports
The closer Rory McIlroy came to fulfilling his lifetime dream — winning the Masters — the more it kept slipping away. Sunday at Augusta National felt like his last 11 years in the majors, blunders mixed in with sheer brilliance.
A two-shot lead gone in two holes. A four-shot lead gone in three holes with a shocker of a mistake. A 5-foot putt on the final hole to win narrowly missed.
And then McIlroy turned what could have been another major collapse into his grandest moment of all when he hit wedge to 3 feet for birdie in a sudden-death playoff against Justin Rose to become — finally — a Masters champion and take his place in golf history as the sixth player with the career Grand Slam.
It ended with more heartache for Rose, who lost to Sergio Garcia in a playoff in 2017 and forced this one with a clutch 20-foot birdie on the 18th hole for a 6-under 66. He wound up joining Ben Hogan as the only players to lose twice in playoffs at Augusta National.
U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau, who beat McIlroy at Pinehurst No. 2 last June, had the lead after two holes when McIlroy opened with a double bogey. DeChambeau crashed out with a pair of three-putts and two shots into the water on the back nine, closing with a 75.
Ludvig Aberg, a runner-up in his Masters debut a year ago, suddenly had a share of the lead when McIlroy fell apart on the middle of the back nine. He missed a birdie putt from the fringe to take the lead, then finished bogey-triple bogey.
McIlroy and Rose finished at 11-under 277, two shots ahead of former Masters champion Patrick Reed (69). Scheffler, trying to win the Masters for the third time in four years, never got anything going this week and still shot 69 to finish fourth.
Josh Naylor hit a go-ahead single in the seventh, and the Arizona Diamondbacks overcame a two-run, first-inning deficit to beat the Milwaukee Brewers 5-2 Sunday for their fourth win in five games,.
William Contreras hit a two-run homer in the first off Zac Gallen, who has a 4.64 ERA through four starts. Gallen allowed five hits and three walks in six innings.
Freddy Peralta threw a run-scoring wild pitch in the fifth and Tim Tawa tied the score in the sacrifice fly in the sixth.
Corbin Carroll singled leading off Bryan Hudson (0-1) starting the seventh, advanced on a balk and Geraldo Perdomo’s sacrifice, then scored on Naylor’s single.
Alek Thomas added a two-run single in the eighth against Grant Anderson.
Jalen Beeks (1-0) pitched a one-hit seventh for his first win with Arizona, which signed him last month, and Justin Martinez struck out two in a perfect eighth.
A.J. Puk allowed a hit and a walk that gave Milwaukee two on with one out in the ninth, then struck out Brice Turang and Jackson Chourio for his third save. Arizona finished a 4-2 homestand.
Peralta gave up two runs, four hits and four walks in 5 1/3 innings.
Milwaukee finished a 3-3 trip that started in Colorado. The Brewers sruck out 11 times and went 0 for 6 with runners in scoring position.
LHP Tyler Alexander (1-0, 2.84) starts Monday night’s homestand opener against Detroit and the reigning AL Cy Young Award winner, LHP Tarik Skubal (1-2, 3.78). First pitch is at 6:40 from American Family Field.
Elsewhere in the NL Central Sunday the Reds blanked the Pirates 4-0, the Cardinals shutout the Phillies 7-0 and the Cubs beat the Dodgers 4-2. The Cubs lead the Brewers and the Reds by two games in the division.
In the Midwest League Sunday, the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers won at Quad Cities 5-1.
Pat Connaughton had a career-high 43 points and a season-high 11 rebounds as the Milwaukee Bucks defeated the Detroit Pistons 140-133 in overtime on Sunday to close the regular season on an eight-game winning streak.
Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo, Detroit’s Cade Cunningham and several other regulars didn’t play with both teams already locked into their playoff positions. The fifth-seeded Bucks face Indiana and the sixth-seeded Pistons take on New York in the opening round of the playoffs.
Milwaukee’s lone usual starter to play was Kyle Kuzma, who scored 22 points in the first quarter before sitting out the rest of the game. Tyler Smith added 20 points and Pete Nance had 19 for the Bucks.
Malik Beasley scored 23 points to lead six Pistons in double figures. Lindy Waters III and Marcus Sasser each added 18 points. Sasser also had 10 assists.
In Nascar Sunday Kyle Larson held off Denny Hamlin to win the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway in a dominant performance.
Baseball Schedule (Mon.)
Ripon at Laconia
Jefferson at Waupun
Kewaskum at Kettle Moraine Lutheran
Chilton at Plymouth
Berlin at Wautoma
Beaver Dam at Adams-Friendship
New London at Hortonville
Waupaca at Shawano
Campbellsport at Living Word Lutheran
Horicon at Lomira
Omro at Saint Lawrence Seminary
Winnebago Lutheran at Saint Mary’s Springs
North Fond du Lac at Sheboygan Falls
Appleton East at Stevens Point
New London at Hortonville
Kaukauna at Bay Port
Kimberly at Appleton West
Marinette at Southern Door
Little Chute at Fox Valley Lutheran
Algoma at Luxemburg-Casco
Lodi at Westfield
Athens at Nekoosa
Lourdes Academy/Valley Christian at Central Wisconsin Christian
Pecatonica at Cambria-Friesland
Cambridge at Markesan
Softball:
Chilton at Kewaskum
Kettle Moraine Lutheran at Oakfield
Omro at Winneconne
Sheboygan Falls/Kohler at Plymouth
Cambria-Friesland at Berlin
Stevens Point at Menasha
Xavier at Seymour
St. Mary’s Springs at Winnebago Lutheran Academy
Random Lake at Laconia
Clintonville at Fox Valley Lutheran
Freedom at Wrightstown
Luxemburg-Casco at Marinette
Oconto Falls at Denmark
Little Chute at Waupaca
Montello at Adams-Friendship
Athens at Nekoosa
Westfield at Princeton/Green Lake
Wisconsin Dells at Baraboo
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