The North Platte Bulldogs softball team earned their first win of the season with a 10-1 victory at Lexington last night, in a game called after five innings due to the mercy rule. Freshman Mackensie Wiseman hit a solo home run as part of the Bulldogs’ fifteen-hit attack. Ashten Hernandez had four of those hits and drove in a pair of runs, and also earned the win in the circle, allowing a run on six hits in her four innings of work. Sydney Standage had a pair of RBI as well. The Bulldogs are now 1-5 on the season. They play in Kearney against Lincoln High and Lincoln East tomorrow afternoon.

The North Platte Bulldog softball team will take the diamond in Lexington tonight in search of their first win of the season. The young Bulldog team, which features no seniors, is 0-5 on the campaign after dropping games against Lincoln Northeast, Ralston and Wayne at a tournament in Lincoln on Saturday afternoon. Tonight they take on a Lexington Minutemaids team that is 2 and 5 on the season. In their last games, the Maids went 1-2 at a tournament, beating Southern Valley and falling to Adams Central and Scottsbluff. They split a doubleheader with Northwest last Thursday to earn their other win this season. North Platte won both meetings against Lexington last season. You can hear Bulldog softball on ESPN Radio 1410 tonight, with the pregame show at 6:15 and first pitch at 6:30.

Adam Bailey’s 32 yard field goal as time expired lifted the North Platte Bulldogs to a 38-35 victory over the Lincoln High Links at Bauer Field at Memorial Stadium on Friday night. The heroic kick capped a wild affair that saw the Links erase a two-score deficit on two different occasions, including with 1:05 left to play to tie the score at 35. For North Platte, Mitch Alexander scored three of their five touchdowns – two on screen passes of 57 and 25 yards, and one on a blocked punt and recovery that gave the Dawgs a 35-21 lead with 5:21 left. Trevor Schramm and Jesse Henne each caught touchdown passes as well. Bulldog quarterbacks Dylon Mlady and Micah Lauber each threw a pair of touchdowns.

Week One’s Play of the Week: Adam Bailey’s winning kick, as it sounded on ESPN Radio 1410!

The North Platte Bulldog softball team opened their 2011 season with a pair of losses at a double dual in Hastings last night. The Bulldogs fell in their first game against Omaha Skutt Catholic 8-0 in a game shortened to five innings by the mercy rule. Skutt pitcher Kaylan Jablonski threw a no-hitter, walking none and striking out seven. The Bulldogs bats were more effective in the second game of the night, as they pounded out nine hits, but it wasn’t enough as they lost to Omaha Gross Catholic 10-5. Two runs in the top of the fifth inning by the Bulldogs tied the score at 2, but the Cougars scored four times in the 5th and four more times in the 6th. Christina Yoshida had two hits and an RBI and Aura Adkisson had an RBI triple for North Platte in the defeat. The Bulldogs play in the Lincoln Invitational this Saturday.

North Platte Bulldog athletics return to ESPN Radio 1410 tonight with the first event of the 2010-2011 prep sports season. The Bulldog softball team is in Hastings for a doubleheader against Omaha Skutt Catholic and Omaha Gross Catholic. Coach B.J. Songster’s Bulldogs are coming off a season that saw them finish 17-13, with a runner-up finish in their district tournament. They’ll face their toughest test of the day right off the bat against Skutt’s Skyhawks, who are ranked second in Class B in the Omaha World-Herald’s Preseason Poll. The defending third-place finishers in Class B are 1-1 after beating Bellevue West and losing to Papio South last night. Gross Catholic is 2-2 on the season. ESPN Radio 1410 will carry both games tonight, with the Kwik Stop Pregame Show getting things underway at 4:15.