KEARNEY HIGH BASEBALL WINS FINAL ROAD GAME, SENIOR NIGHT FRIDAY VERSUS HASTINGS:
After a short weather delay last night, Kearney High Baseball picked up a 5-1 win over Lincoln Standing Bear at Sherman Field in Lincoln.
Kole Throckmorton had 3RBI’s and Jake Bosshammer had 2 RBI’s as both had a double in the contest. Derrick Nonhof threw a complete game win for the Bearcats to improve to 17-9 on the season.
After having today off, Kearney returns home to face Hastings on Friday.
NEBRASKA WOMENS BASKETBALL RECIEVES CONFRENCE SLATE
Nebraska will play six of its nine home Big Ten games against 2025 NCAA Tournament qualifiers, the Huskers announced on Wednesday, April 30 with the conference’s release of its home and away plays for the 2025-26 women’s basketball season.
The Huskers, who earned their second consecutive trip to the NCAA Tournament, will play a loaded 18-game schedule again in the coming season, including home games against fellow 2025 NCAA qualifiers UCLA, USC, Iowa, Maryland, Illinois and Indiana. The Big Red will round out its home Big Ten schedule against Rutgers, Purdue and Northwestern.
Nebraska’s road schedule also features six battles with 2025 NCAA qualifiers, including Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Oregon and Washington, along with trips to Minnesota, Penn State and Wisconsin. The Huskers will be making their first Big Ten trips to both Oregon and Washington during the regular season.
In 2024-25, Nebraska finished with a 21-12 overall record that included a 10-8 Big Ten mark. The Huskers also won two games at the Big Ten Tournament in Indianapolis before taking on Louisville in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in Fort Worth, Texas.
BAHL NAMED TOP 25 FINALIST FOR PLAYER OF THE YEAR:
Nebraska softball pitcher and utility player Jordyn Bahl was named a Top 25 finalist for the USA Softball/ESPN National Player of the Year, the organization announced on Wednesday. Bahl was a top-10 finalist for the award in both 2022 and 2023 while at Oklahoma.
Bahl was one of seven Big Ten players to make the list of 25 player-of-the-year finalists. As a conference, the Big Ten had more players selected as finalists than every other conference combined except the SEC.
A native of Papillion, Neb., Bahl leads the Huskers in every pitching category and almost every offensive category. She boasts a batting average of .468 on the season, which ranks 10th nationally. She has also contributed 55 runs, 65 hits, 56 RBIs, 15 doubles and 17 home runs so far this year. Bahl is the first Husker in school history to record 15 doubles and 15 home runs in the same season.
In the circle, the junior has notched an ERA of 1.56 and a record of 20-5 with two saves. She has struck out 218 batters, which is a career high. Bahl has appeared in 30 games and started 24 and adds two saves and six shutouts.
UNK SOFTBALL HAS SEASON END IN MIAA TOURNAMENT:
Sophomore first baseman Sydney Young went 3 for 4 with two RBI’s and senior Sydney Rader threw six no-hit innings to help Missouri Western State downed UNK Softball, 8-0, in a MIAA Tournament first round game Wednesday night in Hays, Kan.
The 10th-seeded Lopers finish up at 23-27 while the seventh-seeded Griffons improve to 32-20 and move on to face nationally-ranked Pittsburg State on Thursday.
NSAA RELEASES CLASS B SOCCER SUB-DISTRICTS, CLASS A EXPECTED TO BE RELEASED TODAY:
The NSAA released the boys and girls soccer sub-districts for Class B.
Grand Island Northwest will host the B-7 Girls Subdistrict, featuring Aurora, Hastings, Northwest, Seward and York. Kearney Catholic will host the B-8 Girls Subdistrict with Gering, Holdrege, Kearney Catholic, Lexington and Scottsbluff.
On the boys side, York is at the B-6 Subdistrict hosted by Crete. Hastings will host the B-7 Subdistrict with Aurora, Kearney Catholic, and Grand Island Northwest. Lexington will host the B-8 Subdistrict with Gering, Holdrege, and Scottsbluff.
YESTERDAY’S BASEBALL GAMES:
Kearney 5, Lincoln Standing Bear 1
Adams Central 6, Twin River 0
TODAY’S BASEBALL GAMES:
Grand Island @ Lincoln Southwest
St. Paul/Palmer @ Aurora
Holdrege @ Centennial
Central City/Centura @ Twin River
NFL FINES FALCONS AND DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR JEFF ULBRICH FOLLOWING PRANK CALL TO SHEDEUR SANDERS:
ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta Falcons have been fined $250,000 and defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich has been fined $100,000 as a result of Ulbrich’s son participating in a prank call to Shedeur Sanders during the NFL draft.
The NFL confirmed the fines on Wednesday for the roles the Falcons and Ulbrich played in failing to prevent the disclosure of confidential information distributed to the club ahead of the draft.
The Falcons, who disclosed the role of Ulbrich’s 21-year-old son Jax in the prank call as the son of Hall of Famer Deion Sanders was waiting for his name to be called in the draft, said they accept the discipline from the league.
At a news conference, Jeff Ulbrich apologized to Shedeur Sanders, his family, Falcons owner Arthur Blank and the rest of the organization.
MAN FALLS FROM 21-FOOT CLEMENTE WALL AT PNC PARK DURING PIRATES GAME:
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A man fell from the 21-foot-high Clemente Wall in right field at PNC Park during Wednesday night’s game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs.
Right after Andrew McCutchen hit a two-run double in the seventh inning to put the Pirates ahead 4-3, players began waving frantically for medical personnel and pointing to the man, who had fallen onto the warning track.
The fan was tended to for approximately five minutes by members of both the Pirates and Cubs training staffs as well as PNC personnel before being removed from the field on a cart.
The team issued a statement shortly after the game ended saying the man was transported to Allegheny General Hospital. No further details were given.
LEBRON: ‘I DON’T HAVE THE ANSWER’ TO QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS FUTURE AFTER LAKERS’ EXIT FROM NBA PLAYOFFS:
LOS ANGELES (AP) — LeBron James wasn’t ready to make any decisions about his future in the painful moments immediately after his 22nd NBA season ended with the Los Angeles Lakers’ first-round playoff exit.
“I don’t have the answer to that,” James said Wednesday night when asked how long he will continue to play. “Something I’ll sit down with my wife and my support group and kind of just talk through it, and see what happens. Just have conversations with myself on how long I want to continue to play. I don’t know the answer to that right now, to be honest.”
The 40-year-old James has given no public indication he is thinking about retirement this summer, but Lakers fans will be holding their breath until the top scorer in NBA history makes his plans official.
James provided no hints after recording 22 points, seven rebounds and six assists in the Lakers’ 103-96 loss to Minnesota.
THURSDAY’S TIME SCHEDULE:
Thursday, May 1
MLB
Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh, 12:35 p.m.
St. Louis at Cincinnati, 12:40 p.m.
Arizona at N.Y. Mets, 1:10 p.m.
Kansas City at Tampa Bay, 1:10 p.m.
Minnesota at Cleveland, 1:10 p.m.
Milwaukee at Chicago White Sox, 2:10 p.m.
Athletics at Texas, 2:35 p.m.
Washington at Philadelphia, 6:45 p.m.
Boston at Toronto, 7:07 p.m.
Detroit at L.A. Angels, 9:38 p.m.
Colorado at San Francisco, 9:45 p.m.
NBA Playoffs – First Round
Eastern Conference
New York at Detroit – Game 6, 7:30 p.m.
Western Conference
Denver at L.A. Clippers – Game 6, 10 p.m.
NHL Playoffs – First Round
Eastern Conference
Toronto at Ottawa – Game 6, 7 p.m.
Western Conference
Vegas at Minnesota – Game 6, 7:30 p.m.
Dallas at Colorado – Game 6, 9:30 p.m.
Los Angeles at Edmonton – Game 6, 10 p.m.
