4/6/22 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Wednesday
6 April 2022 Sports
Sports for April 6th
Brook Lopez scored a season-high 28 points and the Milwaukee Bucks overcame a rather quiet performance from Giannis Antetokounmpo to clinch their fourth straight Central Division championship with a 127-106 victory over the Chicago Bulls on Tuesday night. Milwaukee is in a three-way tied with Boston and Philadelphia for second place in the Eastern Conference, 2 ½ games behind Miami.
The defending NBA champion Bucks haven’t been on a run like this since Don Nelson’s teams won seven consecutive division titles in the 1980s. They took control early and came away with an easy win even though DeMar DeRozan scored 40 for Chicago. Patrick Williams added 18 points. Nikola Vucevic struggled, going 3 of 19 and scoring seven points.
Antetokounmpo, trying to overtake LeBron James and Joel Embiid in a tight race for his first scoring title, finished with 18 points, nine rebounds and seven assists. But the two-time MVP started slow and spent most of the fourth quarter on the bench after picking up his fifth foul.
Lopez had his best performance after missing most of the season because of a back injury. Khris Middleton scored 19 and Grayson Allen and Bobby Portis added 13 points apiece as the Bucks completed a four-game season sweep of the Bulls. Chicago fell to sixth place in the Eastern Conference, a game behind Toronto with three to play. The Raptors beat Atlanta.
The Bucks host the Boston Celtics on Thursday.
Milwaukee catcher Pedro Severino was suspended for 80 games on Tuesday following a positive drug test, the fourth major leaguer penalized in two days. Severino tested positive for the performance-enhancing substance Clomiphene, the commissioner’s office said. The drug is used to induce ovulation. Severino will lose about half his $1.9 million salary. He apologized to the Brewers, teammates and fans. A seven-year major league veteran, the 28-year-old is in his first season with the Brewers after playing for Washington and Baltimore. He hit .248 with 11 homers and 46 RBIs last season for the Orioles, leaving him with a .235 career average with 33 homers and 133 RBIs.
Severino batted .435 with two homers and nine RBIs in eight spring training games. He was expected to serve as the main backup to 2021 All-Star Omar Narváez, filling a void that was created when the Atlanta Braves signed Manny Piña away from Milwaukee.
Other catchers on the Brewers’ 40-man roster are Mario Feliciano and Brett Sullivan. Feliciano has one game of MLB experience and Sullivan has never played in the majors.
Three free agents were suspended Monday following positive tests for Boldenone: outfielder/first baseman Danny Santana, pitcher Richard Rodríguez and infielder José Rondón. Those were the first suspensions since the major league drug testing program resumed March 11 following a 99-day suspension during the lockout.
All the positive tests resulted from urine samples taken before the lockout started Dec. 2, but MLB concluded it could not announce discipline during the lockout, a person familiar with the testing program told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because that detail was not announced.
In Cactus League Baseball action Tuesday the Brewers edged the Royals 5-4. Catcher Brett Diaz hit his first home run of the spring for the Brewers, a two-run shot in the second inning to give Milwaukee a 2-0 lead. The Brewers would tack on two more in the third before Kansas City stormed back to tie the game with four runs in the top of the eighth. The Brewers then pushed across a run in the bottom half to win it. Starter Adrian Houser went six innings, scattering two hits, while striking out four and issuing no walks. Royals starter Carlos Hernandez gave up four runs in 2 2/3 innings , while striking out three and walking two.
Tiger Woods says he plans on playing the Masters, which begins Thursday at Augusta National Country Club. Woods has not played in a tournament after a car crash in Los Angeles early last year that damaged his right leg so badly he said doctors raised the prospect of amputation. He said Tuesday he is planning to play and thinks he can win. Never mind that it will be 508 days from the last time he played a tournament where he had to walk, or that he returns to this Masters with screws and rods still holding the bones in place in his right leg.
Woods, who has won five Masters, plans nine more for Wednesday and then it’s “game time.” He is to tee off at 10:34 a.m. Thursday with Louis Oosthuizen and Joaquin Niemann.
“I can hit it just fine. I don’t have any qualms about what I can do physically from a golf standpoint,” Woods said. “Walking is the hard part. This is normally not an easy walk to begin with. Now given the conditions that my leg is in, it gets even more difficult.
“Seventy-two holes is a long road and it’s going to be a tough challenge,” he said. “And a challenge that I’m up for.”
His 15 majors are second only to Jack Nicklaus and his 18, the gold standard in golf. He is tied with Sam Snead for the PGA Tour career record with 82 wins.
High School Baseball (Tues.)
Wautoma 10, Two Rivers 3
Waupun 7, Winneconne 5
Markesan 6, Pardeeville 1
Girls Softball (Tues.)
Winneconne 4, Ripon 3
Waupun 20, Berlin 4
Wautoma 10, Amherst 6
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