Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Man. City’s streak ends

- From Journal Sentinel wire reports

After 18 games and more than four months, Manchester City’s record winning run in the Premier League is finally over.

That was not the only bad news for Pep Guardiola on Sunday.

During the 0-0 draw at Crystal Palace, the City manager saw Gabriel Jesus sustain a leg injury that could rule out the striker for up to two months and then star midfielder Kevin De Bruyne get carried off on a stretcher. It remains to be seen for how long the favorite for English soccer’s player of the year award is sidelined.

Guardiola can at least console himself that his team heads into 2018 with a 14-point lead with 17 games remaining. Finishing the season unbeaten, emulating Arsenal’s “Invincible­s” of 2003-’04, is also still a possibilit­y.

“Maybe Arsene (Wenger) is worried about that,” Guardiola said, “but I tell him many times that 2004 run is for him.”

INDOOR SOCCER

Ian Bennett notched a hat trick and added an assist to help the Milwaukee Wave remain perfect on the season with a 6-4 victory over the Kansas City Comets on Sunday at UWM Panther Arena.

Bennett scored the first two goals of the game and added a goal in the final period for the Wave, which improved to 10-0.

HOCKEY

The Milwaukee Admirals rallied from threegoals down, but the host Grand Rapids Griffins got the last laugh as they pulled out a 4-3 victory in overtime.

Trevor Smith, Bobby Butler and Frederick Gaudreau all scored in the third period for the Admirals to forge a tie, but Matthew Ford scored at the 1:20 mark of overtime to lift the Griffins.

World Junior Championsh­ips: Adam Fox scored with 1:20 left in the third period to give the U.S. a 5-4 victory over Finland in the Americans’ final preliminar­y-round game at the tournament in Buffalo, N.Y.

SKI JUMPING

Sarah Hendrickso­n and Michael Glasder clinched spots in the Pyeongchan­g Games on Sunday as the overall winners at the U.S. Olympic ski jumping trials in Park City, Utah.

Hendrickso­n finished with a two-jump total of 263.4 points to beat Abby Ringquist (248.1).

Glasder claimed the men’s title with 270 points, edging Kevin Bickner, who finished with 268.6.

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