NEW YORK—The final game of the season’s first month had a familiar feel for the New York Yankees, who are used to Derek Jeter putting together these kinds of nights.Jeter hit a tiebreaking, two-run triple in the seventh inning to give him four RBI, helping the Yankees beat the White Sox 6-4 on Friday.Jeter also hit a tying, two-run homer with two outs in the fifth for New York, which opened a six-game homestand with its third consecutive win. The All-Star shortstop went 3 for 4 and is batting .538 (7 for 13) in his last three games.Paul Konerko set a White Sox record with his major league-best 11th homer in April as they lost lost for the 12th time in 14 games in New York. Alex Rios and Gordon Beckham had two hits apiece.The Yankees shook off a shaky start by Andy Pettitte to finish the first month 15-7, a solid beginning for the defending World Series champions. New York went 12-10 in April last year, when it finished with 103 wins.The White Sox (9-14) lost for the third time in four games, closing a difficult April on a down note. With two on and one out in the seventh, Jeter sliced a 2-2 pitch from Matt Thornton (2-2) past diving right fielder Jayson Nix and into the corner. Francisco Cervelli and Brett Gardner scored easily to give New York a 6-4 lead.Jeter popped up and slapped his hands together after sliding into third with his first triple of the season.Thornton hit Cervelli with an 0-2 pitch and Gardner completed a tough at-bat with a single to set up Jeter’s hit.Alfredo Aceves (2-0) pitched a scoreless seventh to improve his career record to 13-1. Damaso Marte and Joba Chamberlain combined to work a perfect eighth before Mariano Rivera finished for his seventh save in seven tries.Pettitte allowed four runs and seven hits in six innings for the Yankees, ending his string of three wins in three starts. The left-hander yielded just four runs in his first 28 innings this season.The White Sox got off to a fast start, taking advantage of a couple of well-placed hits to begin the game. Alexei Ramirez led off with a looper just out of the reach of second baseman Robinson Cano, and Beckham followed with a bloop single into right field to put runners on first and second.After Rios flied out, Konerko drove a 1-2 pitch from Pettitte over the wall in right for his third homer in two games. The ball landed just out of the reach of Nick Swisher, who made a leaping try at the fence.Konerko broke a tie with Jim Thome for the franchise mark for April homers set in 2006. He went 1 for 2 with two walks to finish the month with 21 RBI and a .297 batting average.New York got two back in the bottom half. Alex Rodriguez snapped an 0-for-19 skid with an RBI double off Freddy Garcia, and Cano added a run-scoring single.Juan Pierre batted ninth for the first time this season and went 0 for 3 with a walk to drop his average to .193.

NOTES—White Sox RF Andruw Jones was scratched with back spasms and replaced by Nix…..Yankees C Jorge Posada missed his second straight start with a swollen right knee. He hit for Nick Johnson in the seventh and struck out….Ozzie Guillen said 43-year-old INF Omar Vizquel would start at shortstop or second base on Saturday. Vizquel is 8 for 15 in his career against scheduled Yankees starter Javier Vazquez…..Rivera struck out two in the ninth to give him 1,015 Ks, passing Roger Clemens for 10th on the Yankees’ career list.

ROSEMONT—The Wolves battled from three one-goal deficits to force overtime before falling, 4-3, to the Texas Stars in Game 1 of the West Division Final at the Allstate Arena Friday night. Texas now leads the best-of-seven series, 1-game-to-0. The Wolves tied the game, 3-3, to force overtime with 5:35 left in the third period. Center Matt Anderson knocked the puck back to right wing Joey Crabb off a face-off in the Stars zone and Crabb fought his way through traffic and ripped a shot past Stars netminder Brent Krahn.Texas got the decisive goal while working on a power-play opportunity early in the overtime period, when defenseman Garrett Stafford rifled a shot past a screened netminder Peter Mannino’s blocker to win the game.Home team goals came from Crabb, center Jason Krog and right wing Anthony Stewart, while Texas (5-0) also got markers from Colton Sceviour, Francis Wathier and Jamie Benn.The Stars opened scoring, 6:34 into the contest. Texas’ Scott McCulloch carried the puck around the net and was hit by a Wolves player along the boards but was able to slip a pass out to Sceviour for a quick tap past Mannino.The Wolves (4-4) answered 53 seconds later with a tally from Krog. Defenseman Arturs Kulda picked the puck up streaking past the net and dished it across for Krog to flip past Stars netminder Brent Krahn to even the score, 1-1.Wathier put the Stars ahead, 2-1, on a delayed penalty when he deflected Maxime Fortunus’ long shot from near the blue line by Mannino at 1:43 of the second period.Mannino (4-3) posted 24 saves on 28 shots for the Wolves.Stewart brought the Wolves even once again, 2-2, with a power-play goal at 6:36. Defenseman Nathan Oystrick sent a shot sliding across the crease from the face-off circle and Stewart streaked in and knocked it past Krahn.Krahn (5-0) turned aside 32 shots for the Stars.Texas took a 3-2 lead just 16 seconds into the third period when Jamie Benn picked up a rebound from Dan Jancevski’s long shot and snapped a shot from the slot past Mannino.The Wolves will host Game 2 at Allstate Arena on Sunday at 3 p.m.