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Nebraska softball team falls in nine innings at Michigan
LINCOLN, Neb. (Nebraska Athletics) – The Nebraska softball team pitched out of trouble most of the night Friday but a ninth-inning walk-off home run lifted Michigan to a 4-3 series-opening win in Ann Arbor.
The game headed to extra innings tied 2-2 before Samantha Bland gave Nebraska the lead with a leadoff home run in the top of the eighth. A two-out rally from Michigan in the bottom of the inning tied the game, but the Wolverines missed a chance to win it by leaving the bases loaded.
Then in the ninth, Nebraska stranded a runner at second base in its half of the inning before Ava Costales hit a walk-off home run to left center with one out.
Nebraska’s pitching staff did well in limiting one of the conference’s top offenses. Michigan entered the game averaging 7.5 runs per game in its first 14 Big Ten games, but the Huskers held the Wolverines to just four runs.
Sarah Harness and Kaylin Kinney were able to escape jams throughout the night to give Nebraska a chance. Michigan had the leadoff runner on base in six of its nine innings but the Wolverines were just 3-for-20 with runners on base and 1-for-13 with runners in scoring position. Michigan stranded 15 base runners in the game.
Michigan left the bases loaded four times, including the sixth inning when the Wolverines loaded the bases with no outs but did not score. The two runs Michigan scored in regulation were an unearned run in the first inning and a bases-loaded walk in the fourth.
Kinney (15-11) took the loss, allowing two runs in 5.0 innings. Harness started and was charged with two runs (one earned) in 3.1 innings. While both pitchers were effective in pressure situations, but the duo did combine to walk a season-high nine batters.
Offensively, Nebraska had just one hit in the first seven innings as Bland’s eighth-inning home run was just the second hit of the game for the Huskers. Nebraska was out-hit 9-5. The Huskers drew four walks and were hit by four pitches, but Nebraska was just 2-for-14 with runners on base and stranded 10 runners.
Sydney Gray went 2-for-3 with a walk, a double and two RBIs. Bland finished 1-for-5 with her home run. Billie Andrews and Caitlynn Neal produced Nebraska’s other hits.
Nebraska fell to 25-17 with the loss and dropped to 8-4 in Big Ten play. Michigan improved to 11-0 at home while moving to 31-14 overall and 12-3 in conference play. Hannah George (3-1) earned the win in relief by tossing a scoreless ninth inning.
Michigan took advantage of a Husker miscue to take a 1-0 lead in the top of the first. Following a bloop leadoff double, a passed ball moved the runner to third with no outs. Harness then retired the next three hitters with back-to-back ground outs and a fly out, but the second ground out scored the runner from third.
Nebraska’s offense was quiet until the top of the fourth. Peyton Cody drew a leadoff walk before Michigan got two outs. Neal was hit by a two-out pitch to bring up Gray, who recorded the Huskers’ first hit of the game with a two-run double to left to give Nebraska a 2-1 lead. Bella Bacon and Ava Bredwell were both then hit by a pitch to load the bases for Billie Andrews, who flew out to the wall in center.
Michigan came right back in the bottom of the frame. The Wolverines had a pair of singles to begin the inning and a one-out walk loaded the bases and brought Kinney into the game. Kinney coaxed a comebacker to the circle and threw home for the second out of the inning. The next batter drew a seven-pitch walk to score a run and tie the game at 2-2. But Kinney limited the damage with an inning-ending strikeout.
The Wolverines continued to put together scoring chances in the top of the sixth. The first three batters all walked to load the bases with no outs. But Kinney escaped the jam with a force out at home, a strikeout and a foul out.
In the top of the seventh, Bredwell was hit by a pitch and Billie Andrews walked to put runners at first and second with one out but the Huskers were unable to score.
Kinney then quickly retired the first two batters of the bottom of the seventh before a hit batter, an error and an infield bloop single loaded the bases with two outs. She escaped the jam when Gray fielded a chopper at third and dove to touch the third base bag with her glove just before the runner made it to the base.
In the top of the eighth, Bland led off with a home run to left. After a strikeout, Neal and Gray had back-to-back singles. Bacon then lined a ball to left where Ellie Sieler made a sliding catch to save at least one run.
In the bottom of the eighth, Kinney recorded the first two outs on just three pitches. A bunt single put the tying run on base and a bloop single that just eluded a diving Neal in right field scored the tying run. With first base open and Keke Tholl, the reigning Big Ten and National Player of the Week at the plate, Nebraska issued an intentional walk. A wild pitch moved the runners up to second and third so the Huskers issued a second intentional walk to load the bases. Kinney then fell behind the next hitter 3-1 before coming back with two straight strikes for an inning-ending strikeout.
In the top of the ninth, Billie Andrews began the inning with a single. Katelyn Caneda then moved Andrews to second base with a sacrifice bunt. But Andrews was left stranded at second base.
In the bottom of the ninth, Kinney won a nine-pitch at bat with a ground out before Costales hit her walk-off homer on a 1-0 pitch.
Nebraska and Michigan continued their series on Saturday at 1 p.m. (Central).
Post-Game Notes
- Nebraska played its eighth extra-inning game of the season, falling to 4-4 in extra innings.
- The Huskers have played five extra-inning games in Big Ten play, posting a 3-2 record in those games.
- Including tonight, in three of Nebraska’s four Big Ten losses this season, the game was tied or the Huskers led in the sixth inning or later.
- Samantha Bland’s eighth-inning home run was her fifth home run of the season.
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LANSING, Mich. (WILX) – A line of severe storms late Thursday night and into early Friday morning left behind significant damage in Mid-Michigan. Numerous trees and power lines are down across the area causing road closures and power outages.
As of early Friday morning, more than 200,000 Consumers Energy customers were without power along with over 20,000 Lansing Board of Water and Light customers. DTE Energy did not report nearly as many outages on the east side of the state.
The power lines and trees knocked down across the area have left many roads closed Friday morning including the following:
- I-496 in Lansing from Pine St to MLK Blvd. Both east and westbound traffic is shut down due to downed power lines in the area.
- WB M-43 (Grand River Ave) is shut down at Fairview Ave due to downed power lines.
- Canal Rd is shut down in both directions between Rickie St and Davis Hwy in Eaton County due to numerous downed power lines.
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The tide has turned in the Ohio State, Michigan football battle. After the Buckeyes went on an eight-game winning streak over the Wolverines from 2012-2019, Michigan has defeated Ohio State four-straight times since 2021. Michigan dominated in the trenches the past four seasons, and even with a much-less talented roster in 2024, the Wolverines did the unthinkable in Ohio Stadium as a 20-point underdog. Michigan went into Columbus and took down the eventual national champions, 13-10.
Ohio State went on to win the national title in the new 12-team College Football Playoff. But when the 2025 season starts up, the lead-up to ‘The Game’ will be talked about on a weekly basis. Sherrone Moore and his new five-star QB Bryce Underwood will get the Buckeyes in Ann Arbor in 2025, and Ryan Day still has to show he can get that monkey off his back. Right now, plenty of analysts all have the same mindset: ‘Can’t predict Ohio State to win that game until they can prove it can.’
ESPN’s David Hale is in a similar boat. In ESPN’s ‘100 days to college football….’, Hale predicts Michigan to beat Ohio State for the fifth year in a row.
“The Buckeyes are national champions. Last year’s team was elite, and this year’s could be just as good. There’s no reason to be anything but joyous in Columbus,” Hale wrote. “Only … the fine folks from that state up north do have something of a trump card. Michigan’s four straight wins over Ohio State make for some pretty good bragging rights, even if the playoff trophy resides at the Horseshoe. Last year’s astonishing Buckeyes loss might’ve cost Ryan Day his job had the playoff not expanded to 12 and given Ohio State a second bite at the apple. And so, when this year’s game comes around on Nov. 29, the buzz won’t be about Ohio State’s 2025 championship game win. It will be about the four straight losses, and that’s an awfully big monkey now living on Day’s back. So, we won’t be too shocked if that dark cloud looms so large that the Buckeyes stumble yet again thanks to all of the outside noise. Would the Ohio State faithful be OK with a fifth straight loss to Michigan if it was followed by a second straight national title?”
Michigan vs. Ohio State is arguably the greatest rivalry in all of sports. Duke-North Carolina, Red Sox-Yankees, and Celtics-Lakers are a few others, but you can make the argument that when the Wolverines and Buckeyes face off on Thanksgiving weekend — everyone tunes in. Which is why that should usually be a top-five game to watch every single year, right?
Not this year, according to ESPN’s Bill Connelly. In the same article as Hale predicted Michigan to beat OSU, Connelly ranked the top 10 games to watch this upcoming season. He put ‘The Game’ at No. 10 on the list. Games like Boise State-Notre Dame, Texas A&M-Notre Dame, and Montana State-Montana all ranked higher than the Big Ten powers.
“The Buckeyes couldn’t lose a fifth straight to the Wolverines … right?,” Connelly wrote.
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FBI agents have arrested a former member of the Michigan Army National Guard accused of planning to carry out a mass shooting this week on behalf of Islamic State at a US military base near Detroit, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday.
Agents arrested Ammar Abdulmajid-Mohamed Said, 19, on Tuesday after he traveled to an area near the Army installation and launched a surveillance drone in support of the attack plan, the US Attorney’s Office in Detroit said in a statement.
Said is charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and distributing information related to a destructive device, according to the government’s 42-page criminal complaint.
If convicted, Said could face up to 20 years in prison on each count, federal prosecutors said.
The planned ISIS attack on a US Army base
According to the complaint, Said spent months planning the attack with two undercover officers posing as IS operatives. The target of the alleged plot was the Army’s Tank-Automotive & Armaments Command facility at the Detroit Arsenal in Warren, Michigan, about 20 miles north of Detroit.
In addition to flying his drone over the base to conduct “operational reconnaissance and surveillance,” Said supplied armor-piercing ammunition and magazines that he believed would be used in the attack, the complaint said.
Said, a resident of Melvindale, Michigan, another Detroit suburb, enlisted in the Michigan National Guard in September 2022 and was discharged in late 2024, months after he allegedly began telling undercover investigators he was “fed up with” the US, according to the complaint.
It said Said pledged loyalty to an IS leader and that he boasted about the grenade and firearms training he received while a National Guard soldier and his ability to take apart and reassemble an assault rifle with his eyes closed.
Sue J. Bai, head of the Justice Department’s national security division, said the investigation “foiled the attack” that Said was accused of plotting.
He was scheduled to appear in federal court on Wednesday. Court records did not indicate whether the defendant had obtained legal representation.
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