Sports – Monday, April 4th, 2016

The Brewers open up the 2016
season at Miller Park this afternoon as they host the San
Francisco Giants.  Wily Peralta gets the
start for Milwaukee
while Madison Bumgarner gets the nod for the Giants.  Coverage begins at 12:35pm on KFIZ.  The first pitch is set for 1:10pm.

 

Sunday MLB

Pittsburgh 4 St. Louis
1

Toronto 5 Tampa
Bay 3

Royals 4 Mets 3

 

The NCAA men’s basketball
champion will be crowned tonight as North Carolina
takes on Villanova in Houston.  Coverage begins at 5:30pm on KFIZ.

 

Various reports say that Marquette freshman Henry
Ellenson will leave the school after one year and enter the NBA Draft.   Ellenson is projected as a lottery pick.

 

UConn and Syracuse
will play for the women’s national championship on Tuesday night in Indianapolis.  Both won national semifinal games on Sunday.

 

Giannis Antetokounmpo scored
a career high 34 points but that wasn’t enough as the Chicago Bulls beat the
Bucks 102-98 at BMO
Harris Bradley
Center. Jabari Parker
added 24 points and 11 rebounds.  Jimmy
Butler scored 25 for the Bulls and hit numerous big shots in the 4^th
quarter.  The Bucks host Cleveland on Tuesday night.

 

Jim Herman won the Houston
Open on the PGA Tour by one shot over Henrick Stenson.  Herman was -15 for the event , punched his
ticket to The Masters with the win. 

 

Kyle Busch won the NASCAR
Sprint Cup race at Martinsville
on Sunday.  AJ Allmendinger was 2^nd.  Eau
Claire native Paul Menard was 8^th.  Matt Kenseth from Cambridge, Wisconsin
was 15^th.

 

Marian Softball

Marian 13 Rockford 1 – Game 1

Marian 12 Rockford 4 – Game 2