The Nebraska baseball team made it 34 consecutive home opener victories with a 9-6 defeat of Kansas State at Hawks Field yesterday afternoon. The Big Red used big sticks to score four runs in the third inning and four more in the fifth, erasing an early 2-0 deficit. Kale Kiser’s two-run home run, his first of the season, was the big blow in the third. That shot tied the game, and Chad Christensen’s two-run single later in the frame gave the Huskers the lead for good. In the fifth, Christensen and Kurt Farmer had RBI hits, while Josh Scheffert drove in a pair with a single. Bryan Peters drove in Nebraska’s final run in the eighth. Tyler Niederklein earned the win on the mound, and Travis Huber worked a perfect ninth for the save. The Huskers move to 7-4 on the season. They host Nebraska-Kearney today at 1:35.
Month: March 2012
Pelini Holds Pre-Spring Ball Press Conference, Expresses Playoff Skepticism
With the start of spring practice just four days away, Nebraska head football coach Bo Pelini met with members of the media yesterday and spoke on several subjects. Pelini addressed injured players, position changes, and even the increasing possibility of a college football playoff, which he does not currently favor. “There is a lot of theory and theoretical things,” Pelini said. “I could end up on the moon tomorrow. That’s probably not going to happen. Let’s get something that is workable and every proposal that has been put out there has reprocussions.” The Huskers hold a Pro Day for their outgoing NFL prospects on Thursday, and then open up the spring with their first practice on Saturday.
Rockies Fall to Cubs, Fowler Homers in Loss
The Colorado Rockies were drubbed by the Chicago Cubs 11-4 in Cactus League action in Mesa, Arizona yesterday. Alfonzo Soriano’s two home runs and top prospect Brett Jackson’s three-run homer sparked the Cubs to the victory. The Rockies were led offensively by outfielder Tyler Colvin, who came over from the Cubs in a trade this winter. He had a pair of hits, including a triple, drove in a run and scored a run. Jordan Pacheco also had two hits, and Dexter Fowler blasted a solo home run. On the mound, newly-acquired starter Guillermo Moscoso allowed four runs on five hits in his two innings of work. Alex White, another rotation candidate, allowed a run in two relief innings, striking out two. The Rockies take on the San Francisco Giants in a road game in Scottsdale this afternoon.
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Kids Carnival for Child Abuse Prevention Month
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. Each year the Lincoln County Child Abuse Prevention Council recognizes this month with the annual Child Abuse Prevention Month Kid’s Carnival. The goal of this year’s campaign “Connect, Listen, Support” is to promote healthy child development, positive parenting practices and community action. This year’s Kid’s Carnival will take place on Saturday, March 31, 2012 from 1:00-4:00pm at the Platte River Mall. The event will feature free carnival games for parents to play with their children, balloon twisters, free lunch provided by Wal-Mart DC and more. Free parenting resources will be distributed and representatives from various child and family serving agencies will also be on hand. This event is free to parents and children. Visit www.
Nebraska case management transition complete
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – The head of the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services says the state has now reclaimed management of the child welfare cases that were handled by one private lead agency.
Department CEO Kerry Winterer announced that the transition from KVC Nebraska to the state is complete. KVC Nebraska had served a 19-county area in southeast Nebraska, including one-third of the cases in the Omaha area.
Nebraska state officials have now assumed case management duties in 17 of those counties. Another lead agency, Nebraska Families Collaborative, is taking over the cases in Douglas and Sarpy counties.
State officials have said they will hire case managers from KVC Nebraska to keep them working with the same children as much as possible.
Man takes live grenade to Bellevue City Hall
BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) – A man who was cleaning out his father’s home found what he thought was a grenade and wanted to turn it over to Bellevue authorities.
The man was going to take it to police, but the police lobby has been closed by construction.
So the man put the grenade into a bucket and took it to City Hall, where police have a reception desk.
The bomb squad from nearby Omaha was called in, and its experts determined the grenade was live.
The squad took it for disposal.
Celebrity Birthdays….
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS:
- Tom Arnold (actor-comedian, Roseanne, True Lies, The Best Damn Sports Show Period; former husband of Roseanne Barr) (53)
- Stedman Graham (businessman and Oprah Winfrey’s longtime boyfriend) (61)
- Alan Greenspan (Former Federal Reserve chairman) (86)
- Shaquille “Shaq” O’Neal (Basketball player) (40)
- Rob Reiner (actor and producer-director, All In The Family, This Is Spinal Tap, When Harry Met Sally…, A Few Good Men, Rumor Has It…) (65, some sources say 67)
- Valentina Tereshkova (Soviet cosmonaut, the first woman in space) (75)
- Kiki Dee (singer) (65)
- David Gilmour (singer-guitarist, Pink Floyd) (66)
- D.L. Hughley (comedian and actor, The Hughleys) (49)
- Mary Wilson (member of the Supremes) (68)
- Hugh Grundy (drummer, the Zombies) (67)
- Suzanne Crough (actress, The Partridge Family‘s Tracy) (49)
Ex-NU regent faces lien on office property
SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. (AP) – The Justice Department has filed a lien for over $729,000 against the Scottsbluff office property of former University of Nebraska Regent David Hergert.
The Mitchell businessman was sentenced in January to five years of probation for federal bank fraud. He was ordered to pay $654,000 restitution to the First National Bank of Omaha.
The lien was recorded in the Scotts Bluff County Register of Deeds office in February. It says it’s a lien on all property belonging to Hergert and should be considered a notice in lieu of the restitution ordered at his January sentence.
Hergert admitted inflating business assets to keep a $3 million loan from the Omaha bank.
Hergert was removed from the university’s board of regents in 2006.