Tonight on ESPN Radio 1410 it’s North Platte Bulldog softball. The Bulldogs and Lexington Minutemaids are no strangers to each other this season, having played each other twice. On August 30th in Lexington, the Bulldogs won a mercy-rule shortened game 10-1 in five innings. The Minutemaids were more competitive when the teams met at the North Platte Tournament last Saturday, but the Bulldogs were able to earn another victory, this one in a slugfest, 12-8. Tonight the two foes meet for a third time. North Platte comes in off a loss to McCook on Tuesday night that dropped their overall record to 8-14. Lexington enters tonight’s game with a record of 7-12. ESPN Radio 1410 has the action from the Dowhower Softball Complex tonight. Pregame coverage starts at 6:15 with first pitch at 6:30.
Month: September 2011
Husker Volleyball Opens Big Ten Play With Win Over Penn State
The Nebraska volleyball team opened their Big Ten season in style. In their inaugural Big Ten conference match, the tenth-ranked Huskers held off the fifth-ranked and four-time defending national champion Penn State Nittany Lions in five sets at the NU Coliseum. Nebraska took the first two sets by scores of 25-18 and 25-16, but Penn State battled back to win set three 25-23 and set four 25-19. In the fifth set, the Huskers put the match away 15-10. Gina Mancuso led the Husker attack with 22 kills on the night. She also tallied 10 digs for her fifth double-double of the season. Morgan Broekhuis also had a double-double with 12 kills and 11 digs. Nebraska improves their record to 8-1 on the season with the victory. The Huskers host 24th -ranked Ohio State on Saturday.
Rockies Lose Seventh Straight to Cap Winless Homestand
The Colorado Rockies had never gone winless on a homestand of as long as seven games. Add another ignominious achievement to the disappointing 2011 season. The Rockies lost to the San Diego Padres yesterday afternoon, concluding their final homestand of the year with an 0-7 record and extending their longest losing streak of the season. The Padres scored all four runs in the game in the first inning off of Aaron Cook, making likely his final start at home in a Rockies uniform. Cook lasted five innings and tied a career high with eight strikeouts. Eric Young Jr. and Dexter Fowler had two hits apiece, but the Rockies could only manage six hits total in the shutout loss. The Rockies begin the final week of the season with the first of four games in Houston against the Astros tonight. First pitch is at 7:05.
Lincoln County Jail booking activity- Thursday (9/22)
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Ogallala man accused of lying to Social Security
OGALLALA, Neb. (AP) – A 57-year-old Ogallala man has been indicted by a federal grand jury that alleges he lied to the Social Security Administration. The U.S. Attorney’s Office says Hap Staman faces two charges: fraud and making false statements to a U.S. agency. A news release from the office says that in 2007, Staman didn’t provide information that would have disqualified him from continuing to receive disability payments. It also says that in December 2010, Staman lied on a Social Security form so he could continue to receive the payments. Staman faces five years on each charge. Staman did not immediately return a call Wednesday from The Associated Press. Online court records don’t list the name of his attorney.
Foreclosed central Neb. hotel sells for $4.9M
KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) – Nine months after FirsTier Bank paid $7.6 million for the Ramada Inn in Kearney, the bank has sold it to a hotel management company for $4.85 million. The Kearney Hub reports that a subsidiary of Colorado Hospitality Services bought the 206-room hotel earlier this month. The hotel management firm, which owns more than 20 other hotels, has been running the Ramada on an interim basis since last December when the bank foreclosed on the previous owner. The Ramada’s business is focused on conventions and banquets. The hotel management company says a new Italian restaurant should open soon at the hotel.
Fur trapper’s journal donated to Chadron museum
CHADRON, Neb. (AP) – The grandson of a fur trapper who traveled between Montana and Nebraska in the early 1880s has donated his journal to the Museum of the Fur Trade in Chadron. KQSK radio says James Flaherty’s journal tells of his work, the land, the people and the wildlife. Historian James Hanson says while the 1877-to-1886 period was vital in shaping northern Nebraska and southwest South Dakota, Flaherty’s journal is only the second contemporary writings from that time known to have survived. Flaherty, who became a dentist, sold over 400 pounds of beaver and other furs and paid his way through dental college in his native Wisconsin.
Neb. governor urges TransCanada to move pipeline
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman says he has urged a Canadian energy company to reroute a proposed oil pipeline that would that would cross the Ogallala Aquifer. Heineman told reporters Wednesday that he has had “very candid and very direct” conversations with TransCanada executives twice in the last 10 days. He says he warned company officials about growing in-state opposition to the proposed route. Heineman has urged federal officials to reject the pipeline unless another route is chosen. Pipeline opponents have urged Heineman to call a special legislative session so lawmakers can regulate where the line runs. Heineman said lawmakers missed their chance this year and don’t have the votes. The Republican governor also took aim Wednesday at the “deafening” silence on the issue from several Democratic state lawmakers.
Driver found with pot presents sentenced to jail
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – A California man who had 15.5 pounds of marijuana in gift-wrapped boxes in his trunk when he was arrested last year is going to jail. The Lincoln Journal Star reports that Lancaster County District Judge Karen Flowers sentenced 54-year-old Edwin Yearout Tuesday to 360 days in jail. He was given credit for one day he’d already spent in jail. Yearout, of Sacramento, pleaded no contest to possession of more than a pound of marijuana as part of a deal with prosecutors. Yearout was arrested last October after a Nebraska State Patrol trooper pulled him over for speeding on Interstate 80 in Lincoln. The drugs were found after a dog detected an odor coming from the trunk.
Lincoln pair marry as military ends ban on gays
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – A Nebraska couple has marked the end of the U.S. military’s ban on gay service by tying the knot. The Lincoln Journal Star reports that 48-year-old Gregory Smith, a full-time member of the Nebraska Army National Guard, married 39-year-old John Burns on Tuesday in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The wedding occurred just hours after the military ended its so-called “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. The couple had originally planned to marry next spring, but Smith told family members he wanted to marry on the first day he could serve openly as a gay man in the military. Burns told the newspaper that if the ban had not been lifted, he and Smith probably would not have married until Smith finished his military service.