April 2007 in Sports - 11 April 2007 (Wednesday)

11 April 2007 (Wednesday)

• Ice hockey:
  • Stanley Cup playoffs:

  The Vancouver Canucks defeat the Dallas Stars, 5–4 in four overtimes in the first game of their best-of-seven Western Conference quarter-final series at Vancouver, British Columbia.

• Major League Baseball:
  • In his first appearance at Fenway Park, new Boston Red Sox pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka gives up eight hits and three runs to the Seattle Mariners in seven innings and holds fellow countryman Ichiro Suzuki hitless. But Seattle starter Félix Hernández steals the show with a one-hit shutout, and the Mariners win, 3–0. (AP via Yahoo)
  • In the first game affected by Major League Baseball's new ban on tie games, the Milwaukee Brewers defeat the Florida Marlins, 3–2, in 13 innings. The game had been suspended due to rain Tuesday night in the 10th inning and resumed Wednesday. Under the old rules, Tuesday's game would have been declared a tie, wiped from the standings and replayed in its entirety. (AP via Yahoo).

• Cricket:
  • 2007 Cricket World Cup Super Eights
    • England 147/6 (44.5 ov.) beat Bangladesh 143 (37.2 ov.) by 4 wickets

• Football (soccer):
  • 2006–07 UEFA Champions League Quarter Finals, second leg (aggregate in parenthesis).
    • Bayern Munich 0–2 Milan (2–4)
    • Liverpool 1–0 PSV Eindhoven (4–0)

• Free-diving
  • New Zealand freediver William Trubridge breaks his own world record in unassisted freediving in Dean's Blue Hole Bahamas. In a time of 3:09 he dove to 82 m (269 ft), breaking the old record of 81m set on 9 April. (Vertical Blue)