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Sports – Wednesday, October 28th, 2015
Eric Hosmer’s sacrifice fly in the
bottom of the 14th plated Alcides Escobar and gave the Kansas City
Royals a 5-4 win over the New York Mets in Game 1 of the World Series last night. The game was sent to extra innings with Alex
Gordon homered to tie it at 4 in the bottom of the 9th. Alcides Escobar also had an inside the park
home run to lead off the bottom of the 1st inning for the
Royals. The last player lead off the
World Series with an inside the park homer was Ol’Patsy Dougherty of the Boston
Americans in 1903. The game was also
delayed for a bit in the 4th innings as FOX lost their television
feed. Game 2 of the series is tonight
in KC. Jacob DeGrom starts for the Mets
while Johnny Cueto starts for the Royals.
The 1st pitch is set for 7:07pm and will be on FOX.
The Bucks open up their 2015-16 season
tonight as they host the New York Knicks at the
Antentokounmpo who is serving a one game suspension stemming from last year’s
playoff series with the Chicago Bulls.
Last year’s #1 draft pick Jabari Parker won’t be ready to go until
sometime in November as he recovers from a torn ACL. OJ Mayo will also miss the opener with a
hamstring injury. Tonight’s coverage begins at 6:40pm with the tip set for 7pm
on KFIZ.
The Packers get back on the practice
field today as they get ready for a Sunday Night Football matchup with the Broncos
in
The Wisconsin Badgers will host
Rutgers on Saturday at
Stave who left the win over
with a concussion has been cleared to practice and start on Saturday. The kickoff is set for 11am on KFIZ.
Badger men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan
and Packers legend Donald Driver will be inducted into the Wisconsin Athletic
Hall of Fame in 2016. The induction ceremony
will be April 30th in
Boys Volleyball
Appleton West 3 Fond du Lac 0 – Ethan Kondo
12 digs
WIAA Football Playoffs
2nd Round – Friday
Division One
Lac
Division Five
WLA @
Division Six
St. Mary’s Springs @
Iola-Scandinavia – 7pm