4/4/22 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Monday
4 April 2022 Sports
Sports for April 4th
Sports for April 4th
Luka Doncic scored 32 points and matched a season high with 15 assists to help the Dallas Mavericks defeat the Milwaukee Bucks 118-112 on Sunday.
Giannis Antetokounmpo led the Bucks with 28 points and 10 assists. Milwaukee was essentially at full strength Sunday after resting all of its usual starters in a 153-119 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday night.
Doncic flirted with a triple-double before finishing with eight rebounds. In six career games against the Bucks, Doncic has averaged 26.8 points, 11.3 assists and 9.2 rebounds with three triple-doubles. Dallas’ Dwight Powell added 22 points and 13 rebounds — one off his career high.
The Bucks are at Chicago on Tuesday. The Bucks are 3-0 against the Bulls and will be trying to complete a regular-season sweep of the series.
In Cactus League Baseball Sunday the Rangers pounded the Brewers 13-2. Texas led 3-1 before erupting for eight runs in the sixth inning to put the game on ice. Rangers starter Jon Gray (1-0) went four innings, giving up one run and four hits while striking out six and walking two. Brewers starter Brandon Woodruff went five innings, giving up five runs, four earned on just three hits, but two were home runs. Woodruff (0-3) struck out five and walked two. Milwaukee plays Colorado tonight with the first pitch at 8:40 CDT and the game can be heard on AM 1100/98.3 FM, WISS.
One year after a heartbreaking loss in the Final Four to eventual champion Stanford, No. 1 South Carolina found redemption, earning the program’s second national championship with a 64-49 victory over 2-seed UConn on Sunday at Target Center.
The Gamecocks, who went 14-0 against teams ranked in the Associated Press Top 25 this season, became the eighth program to win multiple national titles in NCAA women’s basketball history, joining UConn (11), Tennessee (8), Stanford (3), Baylor (3), Notre Dame (2), USC (2) and Louisiana Tech (2). South Carolina (35-2) is also the 12th team to go wire to wire as No. 1 in the AP poll and win it all.
Gamecocks junior forward Aliyah Boston, the national player of the year, recorded her 30th double-double of the season with 11 points and 16 rebounds and was named the Final Four’s Most Outstanding Player.
J.J. Spaun won his first PGA title Sunday, winning the Valero Texas Open. Spaun shot a final-round 69 to finish 11-under par and won by two strokes over Matt Jones and Matt Kuchar
In NASCAR Sunday, Denny Hamlin won the Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond. Hamlin took the lead from William Byron with five laps remaining and held off the field for a .552-second victory over Kevin Harvick and Byron.
The NCAA Men’s Championship take place tonight as #1 seed Kansas faces #8 seed North Carolina. The Jayhawks are going for their fourth national title while the Tar Heels are attempting to win their second championship.
In the first semifinal game Saturday Kansas never trailed on the way to an 81-65 win over Villanova. Ochai Agabaji finished with 21 points after scroing 12 of Kansas’ first 19 points of the game.
KU was up 10-2 on Villanova at the first TV timeout. That was the closest the game was until late in the second half.
Kansas is in its 16th Final Four and fifth under Bill Self. The Jayhawks have won just one national title in Self’s 18 previous seasons at Kansas despite winning over 81 percent of its games with him in charge.
In the second semi-final game Saturday night Mike Krzyzewski, the winningest coach in men’s college basketball history, had his storied coaching career come to an end as North Carolina beat their arch rivals, Duke, 81-77..
Caleb Love’s massive 3-pointer with 25 seconds remaining propelled the Tar Heels over the finish line at the end of a game that somehow exceeded mountainous expectations.
The two rivals, famously separated by 8 miles of Tar Heel State road, sparred for two stunning hours, breaking 12 ties and trading the lead 18 times.
Love, who finished with 28 points, was ultimately the difference. His two late free throws put Carolina up four, and put its lead out of reach. At the final buzzer, back in Chapel Hill, students stormed the Smith Center floor and spilled out onto Franklin Street.
Coach K will leave behind an unrivaled legacy, one defined by 1,202 wins and hundreds of Duke basketball graduates, some of whom have become NBA All-Stars, many of whom speak glowingly about his impact on their lives.
The Ripon/Freedom Girls Softballgame scheduled for Monday, April 4th has been rescheduled for, Saturday, April 23rd.
The NFL announced the dates of the Packers’ offseason workout program on Friday. Green Bay’s offseason program will begin on Monday, April 18, and conclude in mid-June. The program begins with meetings and strength-and-conditioning work (Phase 1), continues with on-field group workouts (Phase 2), and then progresses to organized team activity practices (or OTAs, Phase 3).
OTAs will begin the week of May 23-26 and continue the week of May 31-June 3. The Packers are slated to have their mandatory minicamp from June 7-9, followed by one more week of OTAs.
The team will announce at a later date which OTAs or minicamp practices, if any, will be open to the public. With the exception of the mandatory minicamp, the offseason program is voluntary for players, per the collective bargaining agreement with the union.
The Wisconsin Herd, the NBA G League affiliate of the Milwaukee Bucks, lost on Saturday to the Delaware Blue Coats 132-114. The two teams stayed close with a one-point difference at the end of the first quarter. The Blue Coats outscored the Herd 44-29 in the second quarter to go up by 16 at the half. The Herd made a comeback in the fourth quarter, but it wasn’t enough to secure the win as Delaware beat Wisconsin 132-114.
Rayjon Tucker guided the Herd with 27 points while Jalen Lecque added 19 points.
Delaware’s Charles Bassey scored a team-high 37 points followed by Jared Brownridge with 22 points.
The Wisconsin Herd did not qualify for playoffs and will return in the 2022-23 season.
On Friday, the Herd, lost to the Delaware Blue Coats 144-110. The Herd took the lead several times in the first quarter, but the Blue Coats took control in the second quarter outscoring the Herd 33-22. The Blue Coats went up by 30 in the fourth quarter, ultimately prevailing in the end 144-110. Frank Mason III scored a team-high 24 points while Rayjon Tucker added 22 points. Marcus Graves posted a near triple-double with 15 points, nine assists and nine rebounds.
Charles Bassey was the top-scorer for the Blue Coats with 33 points followed by Myles Powell with 29 points.
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