Nebraska
Nebraska baseball team overcomes early deficit to clinch series against Jaguars
LINCOLN, Neb. (Nebraska Athletics) – Nebraska scored 10 of its runs with two outs and overcame a five-run deficit for the first time since 2021, as the Huskers clinched the series over South Alabama with a 12-7 win on Sunday afternoon at Hawks Field at Haymarket Park.
The Huskers (9-4) scored 12 runs on 15 hits and five errors, while the Jaguars (11-5) had seven runs on eight hits and an error.
Rhett Stokes continued his hot stretch at the plate this weekend, going 3-for-4 with two doubles and two RBI. Tyler Stone was 3-for-5 with a double and team-high three runs scored.
Dylan Carey had a 2-for-3 afternoon at the plate with a home run, three RBI and a pair of walks. Case Sanderson, Garrett Anglim and Dylan Hufft recorded two hits apiece, while Cole Evans had a double.
Ty Horn made his first career start on Sunday, pitching three innings. The freshman allowed six runs, two earned, on three hits and struck out four Jaguars. Mason McConnaughey pitched the next three innings and picked up his first win to improve to 1-2 on the season. McConnaughey struck out a career-high seven hitters and allowed just two hits and a walk.
Kyle Perry recorded two outs, setting up Tucker Timmerman to finish the game for the NU pitching staff. Timmerman struck out four and issued one walk and two hits in 2.1 scoreless innings of relief.
A leadoff walk, followed by back-to-back errors on routine ground balls plated the gameâs first run for the Jaguars in the opening frame. South Alabamaâs lead enlarged to four after Lucas Ismailiâs three-run homer to left.
The Big Red had the bases loaded in the second with no outs after a leadoff double by Stone and consecutive walks to Clay Bradford and Garrett Anglim. An RBI groundout from Ben Columbus scored Stone but that would be all the Huskers could get, as a 5-4-3 double play put an end to Nebraskaâs threat and kept it a 4-1 game.
A hit and an error in the top of the third added two more to the lead for the Jaguars. A two-out single, followed by an NU fielding error made it a 5-1 game, before a wild pitch later in the inning grew the lead to 6-1.
The Huskers got one of the two runs back in the bottom of the third after Silva reached on a leadoff walk and Sanderson poked an RBI single through the right side.
McConnaughey blanked the Jaguars in the fourth and fifth innings, while the NU offense put up four runs on four hits in the bottom of the fifth to lock the game at six. Josh Caron reached on a fielderâs choice, while Stone singled to center to put runners on first and second with one out. Anglim continued the rally in the fifth with an RBI double to left-center, plating Caron.
Carey drew a full-count walk with the bases loaded to score Stone, while Stokes smacked a two-RBI single back up the middle to lock the game at six through five innings.
South Alabama began the sixth with a leadoff single, but McConnaughey retired the next three Jaguars to maintain the tie at six heading into the bottom of the sixth.
The NU offense picked up where it left off from in the fifth, scoring six two-out runs in the sixth to jump ahead 12-6. A walk to Caron and Stoneâs second single of the day set up Evansâ two-RBI double to the fence in right-center. Evans came around to score on Anglimâs RBI single in the next at-bat to give the Big Red a 9-6 lead.
Hufft sent a 3-2 pitch to center for an RBI single to plate Anglim and grow the lead to four, before Carey launched a 353-foot two-run homer into the left-field berm for his first homer of the season.
A leadoff solo homer in the top of the seventh brought the Jaguars within five, while a pair of NU errors placed runners on first and second for the visitors with two outs. Timmerman replaced Perry on the mound and induced a first-pitch fielderâs choice to elude the damage.
Timmerman worked around a single in the eighth and faced traffic on the basepath in the ninth, but the freshman clinched the series win with a three-pitch strikeout of Robbie Petracci to finish off the Jaguars for Nebraskaâs 12-7 win.
Nebraska travels to Wichita, Kan., for a pair of midweek games at Wichita State on Tuesday-Wednesday, March 12-13.
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Nebraska
Central Nebraska locations among awardees of Dollar General Literacy grants
HASTINGS, Neb. (KSNB) – More than $40,000 has been awarded to Nebraska nonprofits, libraries and schools thanks to the Dollar General Literacy Foundation. Places including Axtell, Hastings, Kearney and Ravenna were among the nine Nebraska communities that received money.
Nebraska recipients include:
City | Organization Name | Grant Amount |
---|---|---|
Axtell | Axtell Community School | $1,600 |
Columbus | Platte Valley Literacy Association | $7,500 |
Hastings | Hastings Literacy Program, Inc. | $5,000 |
Kearney | University of Nebraska at Kearney Loper Launch | $2,500 |
Lincoln | Linked2Literacy | $9,000 |
Omaha | Boys & Girls Clubs of the Midlands | $3,000 |
Omaha | Chicano Awareness Center dba Latino Center of the Midlands | $7,500 |
Ravenna | Ravenna Public Library | $1,000 |
Tekamah | Lied Tekamah Public Library | $2,500 |
Valley | Valley Public Library | $500 |
The funds are part of the Foundationâs more than $10.6 million donated to support adult, family and summer literacy programs in the 48 states in which Dollar General operates. With these grants, the DGLF also surpasses helping more than 20 million individuals achieve their educational dreams since its inception in 1993.
âWe believe individuals of all ages deserve access to a quality education, and the Dollar General Literacy Foundation is thrilled to support thousands of learners across the country as they enrich their lives with literacy and education,â shared Denine Torr, executive director of the Dollar General Literacy Foundation. âThis yearâs spring grant cycle is equally exciting as we surpass impacting more than 20 million individuals. We hope these funds provide resources needed to positively change studentsâ lives, helping them to build a brighter future for themselves and generations to come.â
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Nebraska
Nebraska baseball enters regular-season finale with postseason hopes still on the line
LINCOLN, Neb. â Nebraska baseball has arrived at the final stop of an unusually twisted season. The Huskers will open a three-game series Thursday at Michigan State within reach of their third Big Ten championship in the past seven opportunities.
Nebraska is 32-18 and 14-7 in conference play. Its case for a spot in the NCAA postseason, to be unveiled May 27, appears strong, though itâs not entirely secure with the visit to MSU and a Big Ten tournament in Omaha still ahead.
On the surface, this is a satisfying position. Beneath the appearance of that smooth ride, Nebraska has endured a turbulent spring.
A window opened in March and April for the Huskers to earn an inside lane to go deeper into the postseason since they last won a regional in 2005. But now if Nebraska is to make a run, its path likely must resemble what coach Will Boltâs team nearly pulled off in 2021. After winning the Big Ten, it pushed national power Arkansas to the final innings of a winner-take-all game in the Fayetteville regional.
âWhen you get knocked in the face,â outfielder Garrett Anglim said, âone thing youâve got to do is get back up and show up the next day with that fight.â
Nebraska has absorbed its share of punches.
Itâs not alone. The national picture entering the final days of the regular season is clouded. In some cases, it looks upside down. Perennial College World Series participants Vanderbilt, Florida, LSU, TCU and Texas are jumbled near Nebraska with RPIs from Nos. 28 to 44, according to warrennolan.com.
The Huskers come in at No. 31.
âEverybody has more access to talent than weâve ever had in this sport,â Bolt said. âAnd itâs hard to win.â
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Boltâs team has won just three of seven series finales against Big Ten foes. Nebraska dropped all three games against in-state rival Creighton and lost 10-6 against lowly South Dakota State on May 8, surrendering six runs in the ninth inning. The midweek defeats crushed hopes the Huskers might sneak into a spot to host an NCAA regional next month.
Two days after the SDSU meltdown, the Nebraska bullpen surrendered seven runs in the ninth against Indiana to lose 10-5.
But, true to the roller-coaster form, the Huskers followed with a pair of clutch wins against the Hoosiers to capture the series and stay alive in the Big Ten race. Nebraska needs to perform one game better than Illinois in this final week to secure a share of the regular-season title and snag the No. 1 seed next week in Omaha.
The Illini (30-17, 15-6 Big Ten) play at Purdue (33-19, 13-8) to end the regular season.
When these Huskers convened before the season, they established a set of defining characteristics. Among the words they selected was resilient.
âHaving done this for a while now, the teams that typically are the best are the ones that donât get too high or too low,â Bolt said. âBaseball can lend itself to being such an emotional roller coaster if you allow it to â because thereâs so much failure.â
High moments for Nebraska have included:
âą A solid first month that featured a stockpile of road wins against opponents out of conference to boost the Huskersâ RPI.
âą Six series wins in seven chances in Big Ten play, powered in weekend openers by ace right-hander Brett Sears, who takes a 7-0 mark and a 2.11 ERA into his next trip to the mound Thursday.
âą A no-hitter against Kansas State on May 1 thrown by lefty Jackson Brockett, the first by a Nebraska pitcher in 70 years.
âą Last weekendâs showing to close the home season. Cole Evans hit a walk-off, three-run homer in the 10th inning to even the series against Indiana on Saturday. Then Brockett and reliever Drew Christo pitched Nebraska to its second Sunday victory since the start of April.
“Three weeks ago, I didn’t make the travel roster.
Tonight, I threw the first no-hitter for Nebraska in 70 years.”
The No-Hitter by @JaxBrockett13
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â Nebraska Baseball (@HuskerBaseball) May 14, 2024
When the midweek losses accumulated or when the relievers struggled, Anglim said the Huskers didnât dwell on the negativity.
âIf things donât go our way,â he said, âitâs not the end of the world. Itâs time to focus on the next thing.â
Nebraska has advanced to the NCAA regional round five times in the past decade. Bolt, as a player with the Huskers, was a four-year starter and played on the first two CWS teams in program history in 2001 and 2002.
In teams ready to make a run in June, he said heâs seen the kind of resiliency evident in the Huskers â and a tendency for older players like Brockett, Christo and Anglim to emerge from the shadows to play major roles.
Bolt played his best baseball over the final few games of his collegiate career, he said.
âYouâve got nothing to lose at that point.â
Left-handed reliever Caleb Clark, effective over his past nine outings since mid-April after a rocky start to his sophomore season, said the vibe among the Huskers is one of âpure excitementâ as they head to Michigan State.
The series opener Thursday in East Lansing is scheduled for 5 p.m. First pitch is planned for 4 p.m. Friday and 11 a.m. Saturday. The Big Ten Network will televise the final two games of the series, presumably for the Huskers with a lot at stake.
âThese were the goals that we set forth at the start of the season,â Clark said. âBeing in this position is something that we expected of ourselves.â
(Photo of Cole Evans courtesy of Nebraska Athletics)
Nebraska
CASNR articulation agreements help students, boost workforce development
Luz Schafersman juggles big duties as a farm wife, working mom and part-time student in Hooper, Nebraska. While pursuing a two-year degree at Northeast Community College in 2021, she asked an important question about her career goals.
The natural resources conservation profession she decided to pursue requires a four-year degree. So, she wondered, does the University of NebraskaâLincoln provide opportunities to pursue a degree using remote instruction and receiving credit for previous two-year studies?
She was relieved to find that the answer is âyes.â After two years of online instruction with Husker faculty, she is set to graduate May 18 with a Bachelor of Science in Applied Science.
This opportunity was made possible, she said, through innovative academic pathways supported by articulation agreements between the universityâs College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources and most Nebraska state colleges, community colleges and the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture.
Under CASNRâs A to B Program, students can transfer credits and choose an instructional path that aligns with their career aspirations. They complete their degree on a schedule that works best for them. CASNR created the Bachelor of Science in Applied Science degree to increase access and opportunities.
âI truly credit CASNR for the ability to tailor your educational experience to fit your need,â Schafersman said. âItâs really wonderful.
âNot every person is one-size-fits-all. Everyone has different schedules, and I appreciate that CASNR worked with me on that so I could take as many courses as I needed and be able to graduate on time.â
Through the articulation agreements, CASNR and its education partners draw on their collective strengths to boost Nebraska workforce development.
The Northeast Nebraska Ag and Natural Resources Education Compact âleverages the collective efforts of the partners to serve students,â said Charlene Widener, vice president of educational services at Northeast Community College.
The collaborative approach âassists Northeast Community College students with articulation of credit as they transfer to CASNR, leading to reduced time to degree and earlier entry into the workforce.â
This statewide collaboration helps the more than 300,000 Nebraskans who have earned some academic credits but have no postsecondary certificate or degree. Nebraskans in the workforce who have an associateâs degree can boost their career advancement by pursuing a University of NebraskaâLincoln bachelorâs degree while continuing to work.
âWe think a lot about the continuum of learners and helping learners have an opportunity no matter where they are in their journey,â said Tiffany Heng-Moss, dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources.
A partnership being developed between CASNR and NCTA will provide still another opportunity. CASNR students who want to gain practical, hands-on ag experience at NCTAâs facilities will be able to use a reverse-transfer option to include study at the campus in Curtis.
âWe are excited about what the reverse transfer will do for not only NCTA students, but also students working toward a bachelorâs degree in CASNR who want to leverage experiential learning opportunities from NCTA,â said Larry Gossen, dean of the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture.
âNCTA works to build relationships with many industries throughout Nebraska,â said Jennifer McConville, NCTA associate dean. âThrough these relationships, these employees value the skills acquired through NCTAÂ programs.â
Heng-Moss said: âWe have demonstrated that we put students first, in recognizing that students have these different starting points and how we can leverage the strengths across institutions to meet studentsâ needs.â
Schafersman said she was helped greatly by the support from multiple CASNR team members, including her academic adviser Katie Forrest. Marybeth Helmink coordinates CASNRâs transfer program.
âThey were incredibly helpful,â Schafersman said. âThey gave me so much information about what to expect as a full-time student and an online student.â
Another plus was the ease of use of CASNRâs online instruction. Schafersman said it is very interactive.
âThe instructors do a really good job trying to connect with their students and having students connect with each other,â she said. âThe interaction, the involvement, the communication have been really amazing.â
CASNR has articulation agreements with NCTA, Chadron State College, Wayne State College and these Nebraska community colleges: Central, Metropolitan, Mid-Plains, Nebraska Indian, Northeast, Southeast and Western.
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