NEBRASKA GETS SERIES WIN SUNDAY, BACK AT .500 WITH WIN OVER MINNESOTA:
Nebraska plated seven runs in the seventh and eighth innings to clinch the series win with an 8-3 victory vs. Minnesota on Sunday afternoon at Hawks Field at Haymarket Park.
Nebraska (24-24, 11-13 Big Ten) scored eight runs on 13 hits and an error, while Minnesota (22-24, 8-16 Big Ten) totaled three runs, 10 hits and an error.
Gabe Swansen was 2-for-4 with a double and two RBI, while Robby Bolin, Cayden Brumbaugh, Will Jesske and Joshua Overbeek pieced together two-hit performances.
Nebraska steps out of conference play for a midweek matchup with Creighton on Tuesday in Lincoln. First pitch between the Huskers and Bluejays is set for 6:02 p.m. at Hawks Field at Haymarket Park.
HUSKER VOLLEYBALL WINS FINAL SPRING MATCH AGAINST SOUTH DAKOTA STATE:
Nebraska volleyball posted a 25-18, 25-19, 25-17, 25-19 spring match win over South Dakota State in front of a sold-out crowd of 1,750 at Ord High School on Saturday afternoon. The Huskers capped their spring season winning all eight sets they played.
Harper Murray had 12 kills, seven digs, five blocks and two aces to lead the Huskers. Andi Jackson added 11 kills and 10 blocks. Rebekah Allick posted eight kills and nine blocks. Teraya Sigler chipped in six kills and four digs. Skyler Pierce added six kills and three blocks, and Taylor Landfair provided five kills and four blocks.
Campbell Flynn played the whole match at setter and finished with 44 assists, eight digs, four kills and four blocks.
Laney Choboy tallied nine digs, while Maisie Boesiger chipped in eight.
NEBRASKA SOFTBALL HAS NO. 3 SEED IN BIG TEN CONFRENCE TOURNAMENT:
Nebraska softball’s postseason begins this week in West Lafayette.
Purdue is hosting the Big Ten Conference Tournament May 7-10. The field is comprised of the top 12 teams in the final regular-season standings.
Oregon is the No. 1 seed, while UCLA is the 2 seed, Nebraska is the 3 seed, and Ohio State is the 4 seed. All four teams earned a first round bye.
Nebraska will play the winner of Wednesday’s #11 Penn State/#6 Iowa matchup. First pitch is set for 10 a.m. Thursday.
The first two rounds of the Big Ten Tournament are below:
Wednesday, May 7 (First Round)
Game 1 (#11 Penn State vs. #6 Iowa) – 10 a.m. CDT (BTN)
Game 2 (#10 Indiana vs. #7 Washington) – 12:30 p.m. CDT (BTN)
Game 3 (#9 Wisconsin vs. #8 Michigan) – 3:30 p.m. CDT (BTN)
Game 4 (#12 Purdue vs. #5 Northwestern) – 6 p.m. CDT (BTN)
Thursday, May 8 (Quarterfinals)
Game 5 (#3 Nebraska vs. Game 1 winner) – 10 a.m. CDT (BTN)
Game 6 (#2 UCLA vs. Game 2 winner) – 12:30 p.m. CDT (BTN)
Game 7 (#1 Oregon vs. Game 3 winner) – 3:30 p.m. CDT (BTN)
Game 8 (#4 Ohio State vs. Game 4 winner) – 6 p.m. CDT (BTN)
SUPERNOVAS WIN FINAL TWO REGULAR SEASON MATCHES, NO. 1 SEED IN PVF CHAMPIONSHIP NEXT WEEKEND:
The Omaha Supernovas used a full-team effort to defeat the Atlanta Vibe (19-9), 25-23, 25-22, 19-25, 25-23, on Sunday night at Gas South Arena.
They clinched the No. 1 seed in the PVF Championship with a 19-25, 25-17, 25-20, 25-21 win over the Grand Rapids Rise Friday night.
It was a double milestone for the Supernovas (21-7), who snapped the Vibe’s league-record 13-match winning streak while clinching the PVF regular-season title. Omaha now heads to Las Vegas as the No. 1 seed in the 2025 PVF Championship and will face the No. 4 seed Indy Ignite (13-15) in one of two PVF semifinal matches.
HUSKER FOOTBALL LANDS COMMITMENT FROM TOP 2027 QB PROSPECT TAYLOR:
Nebraska football’s depth at quarterback is now cemented for the next several seasons.
Trae Taylor, a four-star QB in the class of 2027, has committed to Matt Rhule and the Huskers. Taylor picked the Big Red over Illinois, LSU and Texas A&M.
A 6-foot-3, 186-pound rising junior at Carmel Catholic in the Chicago area, Taylor is ranked by the 247Sports Composite as the No. 2 prospect in Illinois and No. 35 prospect in the 2027 class. He’s rated as the third-best QB in the class.
Nebraska’s quarterback room now looks set for the next several seasons. The Husker return starter Dylan Raiola who is entering just his sophomore season. The rest of the room includes redshirt freshman Marcos Davila and true freshman TJ Lateef, both of whom were four-star prospects in high school.
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.
FRIDAY’S HS BASEBALL SCORES:
Kearney 9, Hastings 0
Crete 14, Aurora 4
SATURDAY’S HS BASEBALL SCORES:
Grand Island 6, Elkhorn North 5
Gretna East 1, Grand Island 0
Adams Central 10, Omaha Northwest 0
Adams Central 5, Douglas County West 0
Holdrege 6, York 3
Kearney 3, Norfolk 1
Hastings 22, Fairbury 1
MONDAY’S HS BASEBALL GAMES:
York @ Platte Valley (Yutan/Mead/Ashland-Greenwood)
SOVEREIGNTY REIGNS IN 151ST KENTUCKY DERBY, OUTDUELING FAVORITE JOURNALISM IN THE SLOP:
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Sovereignty gave trainer Bill Mott a second Kentucky Derby victory. This time there was no doubt about it and no asterisk.
The 3-year-old colt outdueled 3-1 favorite Journalism down the stretch to win the 151st Derby in the slop on Saturday, snapping an 0 for 13 skid by owner Godolphin.
Mott won his first Derby in 2019, also run on a sloppy track, when Country House was elevated to first after Maximum Security crossed the finish line first and was disqualified during a 22-minute delay.
Rain made for a soggy day, with the Churchill Downs dirt strip listed as sloppy and fans protecting their fancy hats and clothing with clear plastic ponchos.
Two-time Triple Crown-winning trainer Bob Baffert returned to Churchill Downs after a four-year suspension with two entries but scratched Wood Memorial winner Rodriguez, pointing him toward the Preakness rather than Citizen Bull, who finished 15th. Fellow Hall of Famer Todd Pletcher scratched his lone Derby entrant, Grande, on Friday. There’s also a large group of hopefuls who earned Derby points during qualifying and could try other Triple Crown stops.
Sovereignty’s win in Saturday’s Kentucky Derby averaged 17.7 million fans on NBC and Peacock, the largest audience for the Run for the Roses since 1989 and the biggest since NBC took over the rights in 2001.
Sunday Silence’s victory in the 1989 Derby averaged 18.5 million on ABC.
REIGNING CUP CHAMPION JOEY LOGANO GETS 1ST WIN THIS SEASON IN OVERTIME AT TEXAS:
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Reigning NASCAR Cup champion Joey Logano overcame a lot to finally get his first victory this season.
It came a week after Team Penske teammate Austin Cindric’s win at Talladega, where Logano had a fifth-place finish that became 39th after a postrace inspection found an issue with the spoiler on his No. 22 Ford. There was also Logano’s expletive-laden rant on the radio toward his teammate in the middle of that race that the two smoothed out during the week. Oh, and he started 27th at Texas after a bad qualifying effort on the 1 1/2-mile track.
But Logano surged ahead on the restart in overtime Sunday to win in the 11th race this year. He led only seven of the 271 laps, four more than scheduled.
Logano got his 37th career victory, getting the lead for the first time on lap 264. He went low to complete a pass of Michael McDowell.
MAN WHO FELL OVER A RAILING WEDNESDAY AT PNC PARK IS “AWAKE AND ALERT”:
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The man who fell from the top of a 21-foot-high wall onto the warning track at PNC Park during a game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday night is awake and alert.
The organizer of a GoFundMe page for Kavan Markwood, the 20-year-old who slipped off a railing and onto the field during the seventh inning of Pittsburgh’s 4-3 win over the Cubs, shared an update Saturday that Markwood is improving.
According to Jennifer Phillips, who is organizing the fundraiser, Markwood has made significant progress since being admitted to the trauma center at Allegheny General Hospital on Wednesday in critical condition.
“After everything he’s been through since the accident on Wednesday night, this progress feels nothing short of miraculous,” wrote Phillips, who once taught Markwood. “He still has a long road ahead of him, but today brought a moment of hope that we’ve all been holding onto.”
The Pirates have conducted an internal investigation into the incident, which included interviewing fans and analyzing credit card receipts by others in Markwood’s group.
Brian Warecki, the club’s senior vice president of communications, said the investigation concluded that Markwood did not buy any alcohol but did consume two beers over the course of the game.
Markwood attended the game with three other people, the club said. Credit card receipts indicated that one party in the group legally bought seven alcoholic beverages during the contest.
The team said it received conflicting accounts from fans who sat near Markwood in the section that sits above the Clemente Wall, which is named for Hall of Famer and franchise icon Roberto Clemente.
COMMANDERS WILL HOST 2027 NFL DRAFT IN WASHINGTON, DC:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The 2027 NFL draft is heading to the nation’s capital, a person familiar with the details told The Associated Press on Sunday.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity because President Trump is set to make the announcement on Monday at the White House. The NFL declined to comment.
Washington hosting the draft two years from now is the latest off-field victory for the Commanders, a week since they reached an agreement with the D.C. government to build a stadium on the old RFK site. That is still pending council approval.
The team, under former owner Dan Snyder, unsuccessfully tried to land the draft previously. Now, it’ll happen behind the team’s new ownership group led by Josh Harris, which bought the Commanders from Snyder in 2023.
TODAY’S TIME SCHEDULE:
MLB
L.A. Dodgers at Miami, 6:40 p.m.
Cleveland at Washington, 6:45 p.m.
San Diego at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m.
Cincinnati at Atlanta, 7:15 p.m.
Chicago White Sox at Kansas City, 7:40 p.m.
Houston at Milwaukee, 7:40 p.m.
San Francisco at Chicago Cubs, 7:40 p.m.
Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 7:45 p.m.
N.Y. Mets at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.
Seattle at Athletics, 10:05 p.m.
NBA Playoffs – Conference Semifinals
Eastern Conference
New York at Boston – Game 1, 7 p.m.
Western Conference
Denver at Oklahoma City – Game 1, 9:30 p.m.
NHL Playoffs – Conference Semifinals
Florida at Toronto – Game 1, 8 p.m.
