NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Gary Trent Jr. scored a season-high 29 points, and the Milwaukee Bucks improved their hold on fifth place in the Eastern Conference by defeating the New Orleans Pelicans 111-107. Milwaukee rested Giannis Antetokounmpo after he played 43 minutes — and had 36 points, 15 rebounds and 10 assists — in a 121-115 overtime victory at Miami a night earlier. Brook Lopez had 20 points and 12 rebounds for the Bucks, who won their fourth straight. Kevin Porter Jr. scored 20 points, while Ryan Rollins added 14 points and 10 assists. Rookie Antonio Reeves scored 23, and fellow rookie Yves Missi had 18 points and 12 rebounds for New Orleans, which lost its third straight.
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Jackson Chourio homered twice and matched a career high with five RBIs as the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Cincinnati Reds 8-2. Chad Patrick allowed one run and two hits over 5 1/3 innings for his first major league win. Since starting the season 0-4, the Brewers have won five of six. Spencer Steer went deep for the Reds, who have dropped five of six. Chourio hit a sacrifice fly in the third to open the scoring, and Christian Yelich had an RBI single. Chourio then capped a five-run fourth with a three-run homer that made it 7-0. He added a solo shot in the seventh.
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Milwaukee Brewers placed left-hander Nestor Cortes on the 15-day injured list with a flexor strain in his left elbow, further depleting the team’s starting pitching. The loss of Cortes leaves the Brewers with Freddy Peralta as the only healthy pitcher among those projected to be in the five-man rotation. Cortes’ elbow problem surfaced last weekend following a rough outing that saw him give up three home runs on consecutive pitches in a 20-9 loss to the New York Yankees. Imaging tests revealed no structural damage, and Cortes threw six shutout innings against the Reds in his next start.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jose Altuve drove in the go-ahead run with a single in the 10th inning after Yordan Alvarez tied it with a two-run homer in the ninth and the Houston Astros rallied from an early six-run deficit to beat the Minnesota Twins 9-7. Altuve’s single off Louis Varland scored automatic runner Brendan Rogers from third base. Jake Meyers then stole home on a double steal to make it 9-7. Josh Hader retired all six batters he faced to earn the victory. The Twins led 7-1 after four innings, but the Astros came all the way back by scoring twice in the ninth off Twins reliever Griffin Jax to tie it at 7.
In High School softball this weekend:
Rice Lake 13 Altoona 2
Hayward 3 Rice Lake 2
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Marco Rossi scored on a power play 58 seconds into overtime as the Minnesota Wild stopped a four-game losing streak by beating the Dallas Stars 3-2. Matt Boldy drew a tripping penalty on Jason Robertson to give the Wild a 4-on-3. Boldy scored early in the third period and assisted on Marcus Foligno’s go-ahead goal less than two minutes later. Minnesota leads Calgary by six points for the second wild card spot in the Western Conference playoffs. Robertson’s 34th goal of the season gave Dallas an early lead. The Stars are three points behind Winnipeg for the Western Conference lead.
NEW YORK (AP) — Alex Ovechkin has broken Wayne Gretzky’s record for the most goals in NHL history by scoring the 895th of his career. Ovechkin made hockey history on Sunday in a game against the New York Islanders. He scored on countryman Ilya Sorokin for the first time, doing it a power play with 12:34 left in the second period. The 39-year-old Russian superstar did it even after missing 16 games in November and December because of a broken leg. Sorokin became the record-extending 183rd different goaltender Ovechkin has beaten during his two-decade career in the league.
NEW YORK (AP) — Tani Oluwaseyi scored for the fifth time this season, Wil Trapp scored for the fifth time in 328 appearances and Minnesota United beat New York City FC 2-1 at Yankee Stadium. Minnesota United (4-1-2) — unbeaten in six straight — jumped in front early when Oluwaseyi used assists from Joaquín Pereyra and Kelvin Yeboah in the 2nd minute to score his fifth goal of the season. Pereyra set up Trapp’s first goal of the season to make it 2-0 in the 29th minute. NYCFC (2-3-2) had a chance to pull within a goal at halftime, but Alonso Martínez had a penalty kick bounce off the crossbar in the eighth minute of stoppage time. NYCFC made things interesting when Keaton Parks scored for the first time this season in the 89th minute.
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — UConn is back on top of women’s basketball, winning its 12th national championship by routing defending champion South Carolina 82-59 behind Azzi Fudd’s 24 points. Sarah Strong added 24 points and 15 rebounds while Paige Bueckers had 17 points in her final game at UConn. She capped her stellar career with the Huskies’ first championship since 2016, ending a nine-year title drought for the team. That was longest for coach Geno Auriemma and his Huskies since the team won its first championship in 1995. Dawn Staley’s South Carolina team was trying for a third title in four years and fourth overall
DARLINGTON, S.C. (AP) — Denny Hamlin took his last lead out of the pits right before an overtime finish and then held off William Byron to win the Goodyear 400 at Darlington Raceway on Sunday. Hamlin got his chance when Kyle Larson spun out after Ryan Blaney had taken the lead with three laps left to force the extra laps. Hamlin came out of the pits in front then took off on the restart for his fifth career win at Darlington and second straight after winning at Martinsville a week ago.