NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (KNOP) – Tonight, Greater Nebraska is in for a stormy and wet evening, with showers and thunderstorms expected to intensify after 7 PM. Some of these storms may produce heavy rainfall, prompting a Flood Watch from 7:00 PM to 1:00 AM. Winds will shift from south to north, gusting up to 30 mph, making for a breezy and turbulent night. Temperatures will dip to a chilly 46°F by early morning.

Tuesday starts off damp with lingering showers likely before 11 AM. Skies will remain mostly cloudy throughout the day, and highs will struggle to reach the mid-60s. A gusty north wind will keep conditions feeling cooler, though skies will clear by Tuesday night, with lows falling to the low 40s.

Wednesday brings a brief reprieve: partly sunny skies and milder temperatures in the upper 60s, though unsettled weather returns Wednesday night with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.

The active weather continues through Thursday and into the weekend, with scattered thunderstorms likely during the day Thursday and possibly again Thursday night. Temperatures will hover in the 60s and 70s, with occasional breaks in the clouds.

Friday and Saturday look warmer, especially Saturday when highs could reach near 80°F, but storm chances linger each afternoon and evening, suggesting a typical early summer storm pattern. Sunday looks like the best day of the weekend, with mostly sunny skies and highs near 79°F.

The weather appears to settle briefly into early next week, with sunshine returning Monday and highs in the upper 70s. However, with so much recent rainfall, continue monitoring for localized flooding and be prepared for rapid weather changes throughout the week.

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New special teams coordinator Mike Ekeler has his man.

Nebraska has added Australian punter Archie Wilson. Wilson is a rugby-style punter, something Ekeler has worked with in the past and wanted in Lincoln.

“Coach Ekeler has done a wonderful job and he strongly, strongly, strongly believes in utilizing the college rules, which are different than the NFL rules in which guys can get down the field,” head coach Matt Rhule said in April. “So, we will be more of a rugby punt team.”

The Huskers had added a portal punter from Washington in Jack McCallister, but that was before the hiring of Ekeler. McCallister is now off to Purdue.

Wilson, an 18-year-old who had previously played Aussie Rules football back home, visited Nebraska this past weekend. He trained at Prokick Australia, which develops Australians to become star punters in the college game and at the NFL level.

Several current NFL punters were developed at Prokick, including Chicago Bear and former Iowa Hawkeye Tory Taylor. While in Iowa City, Taylor was a two-time Big Ten Punter of the Year, a unanimous All-American, and 2023 winner of the Ray Guy Award for the nation’s best punter. He also holds the FBS record for most punting yards in a season and highest career average punting yards.

Ekeler worked with a rugby-style punter at his previous stop, Tennessee. Jackson Ross was also developed by Prokick. In 2023, Ross made the Ray Guy Award Final Candidate List and earned SEC All-Freshman honors.

Nebraska will have a new punter this fall after the graduation of three-year starter Brian Buschini. The 2021 FCS Punter of the Year at Montana averaged 43.1 yards a punt over 37 games.

Wilson will compete with Kamdyn Koch for the position. Koch is the son of former Husker Sam Koch.

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The Nebraska baseball season has come to a close.

Oklahoma routed Nebraska in an elimination game of the Chapel Hill Regional Sunday afternoon, 17-1. The Sooners improve to 37-21 and advance to face host North Carolina Sunday evening, while the Huskers see their season come to a close at 33-29.

The trouble began from the very beginning. A walk, error, and single loaded the bases for Oklahoma with no outs. The Sooners would score three runs, thanks in part to a trio of Husker errors.

The Big Red would commit five errors before the game was through.

Oklahoma blew the game open in the third inning. Easton Carmichael hit a leadoff home run, which was followed by a single, two doubles, and a triple before Nebraska could record an out. The Sooners hit for the cycle as a team, scoring six runs on seven hits to lead 9-0.

Nebraska finally got on the board in the sixth inning. After giving up five more runs in the top of the frame, Dylan Carey singled to score Riley Silva and prevent the shutout.

Will Walsh got the start on the hill, giving up seven runs, five earned, on six hits over just 2.0 innings. The next four Huskers to pitch all gave up at least a run. TJ Coats pitched a 1-2-3 ninth inning.

The Sooners finished with 18 hits on the day. The Huskers managed six, led by the 2-for-5 effort from Silva.

This the tenth-straight regional that Nebraska has failed to advance out of. The last time the Big Red won a regional was in 2005, when the team made the College World Series.

Despite not advancing in the postseason, 2025 gives Nebraska its best run of conference championships – three in five years – since Dave Van Horn and Mike Anderson combined to give the Huskers conference titles in four out of five years from 1999-2003.

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