Lincoln County Raceway Results for 4-5-2013

 

Modified:

–Feature: 1. 3rw-Ronnie Wallace; 2. 71-Andrew Dillenburg; 3. 00-Cory Sample; 4. 4p-Dave Pedersen; 5. 4c-Charley Brown.

–Heat: 1. 3rw-Ronnie Wallace; 2. 4c-Charley Brown; 3. 71-Andrew Dillenburg; 4. 00-Cory Sample; 5. 4p-Dave Pedersen.

 

Northern Sport Modified:

–Feature: 1. 0-Bryan Herrick; 2. 18-Brent Gibson; 3. 52p-Brandon Poessnecker; 4. 17-Rodger Morash; 5. 58x-Jerry Cox; 6. 11h-Henry Henderson; 7. 3-Gary Long; 8. 12j-Kerry Jones; 9. 13-Terry Dressel; 10. 53dc-Dalten Collins; 11. r12j-Russ Jones; 12. 69-Adam Kackmeister; 13. 20b-Brandon Clough; 14. 7-Jeremy Halouska; 15. 15r-Robby Kosmacek.

–Heat 1: 1. 7-Jeremy Halouska; 2. 52p-Brandon Poessnecker; 3. 58x-Jerry Cox; 4. 18-Brent Gibson; 5. 13-Terry Dressel.

–Heat 2: 1. 0-Bryan Herrick; 2. 3-Gary Long; 3. 17-Rodger Morash; 4. 11h-Henry Henderson; 5. 15r-Robby Kosmacek.

 

Stock Car:

–Feature: 1. 66-Jeff Joldersma; 2. 35jw-Casey Woken; 3. 24w-Casey Werkmeister; 4. 42w-Kyle Werkmeister; 5. 45-Mikey Dancer; 6. 24-Bob Chalupa; 7. 09h-Bob Hoing; 8. 31-Darin Racek; 9. 20b-Kurt Trusty; 10. 75-Dan Eller; 11. 11k-Kyle Clough; 12. 16w-Jeff Whiting; 13. 6-Dallas Whiting.

–Heat 1: 1. 24w-Casey Werkmeister; 2. 35jw-Casey Woken; 3. 42w-Kyle Werkmeister; 4. 11k-Kyle Clough; 5. 75-Dan Eller.

–Heat 2: 1. 45-Mikey Dancer; 2. 24-Bob Chalupa; 3. 31-Darin Racek; 4. 20b-Kurt Trusty; 5. 09h-Bob Hoing.

 

Hobby Stock:

–Feature: 1. 22-Austin Davis; 2. 5-Chuck Ledbetter; 3. 65-Rick Eller; 4. 22w-Brady Weinman; 5. 7s-Scott Gibson; 6. 7t-Tyson Canas; 7. 25-Chris Taylor.

–Heat: 1. 22w-Brady Weinman; 2. 22-Austin Davis; 3. 65-Rick Eller; 4. 5-Chuck Ledbetter; 5. 7s-Scott Gibson.

 

Sport Compact:

–Feature: 1. 98z-Zach Olmstead; 2. 40t-Tara Gaughenbaugh.

–Heat: 1. 98z-Zach Olmstead; 2. 40t-Tara Gaughenbaugh.

The Nebraska baseball team (20-23, 11-4 Big Ten) hosts the No. 16 Indiana Hoosiers (34-8, 11-4 Big Ten) at Hawks Field for a pivotal Big Ten series.

The Huskers and Hoosiers enter the weekend tied for second place in the conference standing, with both holding  11-4 records.

Due to final exams, the three-game series will start on Saturday at 6:05 p.m., continue on Sunday at 1:05 p.m. and conclude on Monday at 12:05 p.m.

Nebraska took the series opener in Bloomington, Ind., last season, 13-2, behind three NU homers and Kyle Kubat’s first career conference start. The Hoosiers bounced back and swept a doubleheader the next day to take the three-game series.

The Huskers are coming off a week that saw them go 1-4 in five non-conference games, but they did end the week with a 3-1 win over Rutgers at the TD Ameritrade Classic.

Indiana was 5-0 last week, starting with a pair of non-conference wins over Eastern Kentucky and Indiana State. The Hoosiers capped the week with a three-game home sweep of Michigan.

It was not a good day to play soccer by any stretch of the imagination.  Nonetheless, as giant snowflakes fell, the North Platte Lady Bulldogs Soccer team took to the pitch against Millard West.

Unfortunately, the Lady Dawgs saw their season come to an end in a hard fought, and extremely cold, 1-0 loss that came down to a shootout.

The Bulldogs entered the tournament as the number one seed and easily won their first game, defeating Omaha Bryan 8-0 to advance to the District Final.

The Lady Dawgs had a season to remember finishing with an very respectful 12-3 record.

 

 

The rosters have been set for the Seventh Annual Mid-Plains Area All-Star Basketball Game. The game will be played on Friday June 7 with the girls game set to tip at 6 p.m. and the boys game to follow at 7:45 p.m. Admission is $5 with all participants selling tickets.

 

GIRLS BLACK TEAM
Shelby	Allberry	North Platte St Patrick High School
Brook	Boucher	North Platte St Patrick High School
Allyson	Cole	Hitchcock County High School
Brooke	Fredrick	Hershey High School
Anna	Griffiths	Wallace High School
Jennifer	Heeren	Sidney High School
Kate	Kelley	Southwest High School
Sam	Kennedy	Sutherland High School
Darbi	Klinkhammer	Kimball High School
Rachel	Malhberg	Elwood High School
Taylor	Marten	Sandhills/Thedford High School
Shania	Metcalf	Perkins County High School
Taylor	Sandoe	Medicine Valley High School
Madison	Tomlinson	Mullen High School

 

GIRLS GOLD TEAM
Sydney	Faessler	Bridgeport High School
Ashton	Hernandez	North Platte High School
Joli	Hopping	Sutherland High School
Morgan	Linneman	Sidney High School
Brekkan	Mantinosky	Paxton High School
Daynlee	Miller	Hershey High School
Brittyn	Munster	Gothenburg High School
Maggie	Nelson	Holdredge High School
Mandy	O’Malley	North Platte St Patrick High School
Karissa	Segelke	Sidney High School
Emma	Skelton	Wauneta-Palisade High School
Chelsea	Sowle	Wallace High School
Clara	Vinton	Mullen High School
Taylor	Wismer	Kimball High School
Kylie	Wroot	North Platte High School

 

BOYS BLACK TEAM
Wyatt	Anderson	Arapahoe High School
Matt	Aten	Overton High School
Sam	Behrends	Creek Valley High School
Dakota	Best	Southern Valley High School
Cody	Corfield	Paxton High School
Ryan	Dahlgren	Bertrand High School
Quinton	Hite	Perkins County High School
Logan	Koehler	Gothenburg High School
Zach	Mann	Brady High School
Joe	O’Malley	North Platte St Patrick High School
Caleb	Reuter	Kimball High School
Sam	Schumacher	Leyton High School
Luke	Wright	North Platte High School
Cody	Wuedtke	McCook High School

 

BOYS GOLD TEAM
Joseph	Clinch	North Platte St Patrick High School
Tanner	Cline	South Loup High School
Lucas	Gleisberg	Medicine Valley High School
Nick	High	Bertrand High School
Dylan	Johnson	Hershey High School
Jack	Kenny	North Platte High School
Spencer	Kucera	Southern Valley High School
Zach	Morland	Paxton High School
Zane	Peterson	Cambridge High School
Joseph	Rettele	Dundy County-Stratton High School
Riley	Rice	Mullen High School
Gage	Schutz	Arapahoe High School
Austin	Starr	Stapleton/McPherson County High School
Isaac	Watson	Arapahoe High School

The North Platte Community College Softball team (4-37) announced Tuesday that Wednesday’s home and regular season finale with Colby Community College has been cancelled due to forecasted weather. With both teams heading to the post season this weekend, the games will not be rescheduled.

The Knights will head to the Region IX Division II Tournament held in Columbus this weekend. The Knights open up Tournament play on Saturday May 4 against the Southeast Community College Storm at 12 p.m. The Knights have faced the Storm once this year in the Nebraska Community College Athletic Conference Tournament falling by the score of 8-9. The other two teams in the tournament, Dawson Community College and Central Community College will also face off at 12 p.m.

The Knights will continue play on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. regardless of the outcome of the first game. The winners of the opening games will face off as will the losers. The Tournament is double elimination with play continuing at 11 a.m. Sunday May 5. The Knights have not faced Dawson Community College and have faced Central Community College three times, losing all three.

The North Platte Lady Bulldogs Soccer team is the number one seed in the A4 District tournament, and they are proving why.

The Lady Bulldogs took on Omaha Bryan yesterday, and handled them with no problem.

North Platte scored three goals in the first half of the 8-0 victory.

The Dawgs will face the number four seed Millard West in the District final at 5:30 on Wednesday.

The North Platte Boys were also in action Monday in Kearney.

The Dawgs faced the number one seed Kearney Bearcats, and ended their season with a 6-1 loss.

The Bearcats advanced to the District finals.

 

(AP) — Jason Collins describes himself this way, “I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay.”

With those words, posted today on the Sports Illustrated website, Collins became the first active player in any of the four major U.S. professional sports to come out as gay. He’s now a free agent after a half-season with the Washington Wizards but says he’d like to continue his NBA career.

Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant tweeted his support of Collins, saying, “Don’t suffocate who you are because of the ignorance of others.”

Former tennis star Billie Jean King, who confirmed she was gay in the early 1980s, says, “We’ve got to get rid of the shame.” And she says Collins “is going to help that” and “help give people courage to come out.”

Collins has also heard support from the White House, and from former President Bill Clinton.

Momentum has been building toward this sort of announcement. Two NFL players were outspoken in their support of gay-marriage amendments during last year’s elections.

The topic made waves during Super Bowl week when san Francisco 49ers cornerback Chris Culliver said he wouldn’t welcome a gay member of his team. And a fellow player estimated that at least half of the NFL’s players would agree with what he said, at least privately.

(AP) — The Nebraska volleyball program has lost another player.

Coach John Cook announced Monday night that rising sophomore Alexa Strange is returning to her home state of California and will focus on playing beach volleyball. Cook says he wishes her the best.

Strange was the only setter on the Cornhuskers’ roster this spring. Strange played in 25 matches last season as a right-side hitter.

Last week Cook announced Hayley Thramer would miss her senior season because of a knee injury. Thramer is the fifth starter from last season who will be missing. Three seniors graduated, and libero Lara Dykstra transferred.

The North Platte Community College Knights Softball team (4-37) fell on Saturday afternoon to Barton Community College 9-8 and 13-1. On Friday afternoon the Knights traveled to Scottsbluff where they fell twice to the Western Nebraska Community College Cougars 8-0 and 23-0.

In the opening game against Barton the Knights fell 9-8 after giving up five runs in the top of the seventh inning. The Knights 16 hits and scored eight runs. Barton scored two runs in the top of the second, but the Knights countered with two runs of their own. The Knights would tack on another run in the third and then added five more in the bottom of the fourth to take a 8-2 lead. Barton would answer with two runs of their own in the top of the fifth to set up their five run top of the seventh to win the game.

In the second game Barton Community College defeated the Knights 13-1 in five innings behind 13 hits. Barton started out of the gate strong as they jumped to a 5-1 lead after one. Barton would tack on another run in the third before adding four in the fourth and three in the fifth to win the game. Katharine Savolt led the Knights from the plate as she went a perfect 3-3. The Knights had nine hits in the game.

The Knights fell to the Cougars on Friday in the opening game 8-0. Two pitchers combined for a perfect game for the Cougars as the Knights were unable to muster a single hit. In the second game of the doubleheader the Knights fell 23-0 as they gave up 23 hits including two home runs, a triple and six doubles while mustering only three hits. Tiffany Brasby, Briona Santovito and Rylee Murphy all had one hit for the Knights.

The Knights return to the diamond on Wednesday May 1 in their season and home finale as they take on Colby Community College in a double header at noon and 2 p.m. at the Dowhower Complex. The Knights then head to Columbus for the the Division II Region IX Tournament. The Knights will open the tournament against Southeast Community College at noon on Saturday May 4. Win or lose the Knights will play again on May 4 at 2:30 p.m.

Stephen Curry shook off a sore left ankle to score 22 of his 31 points in the third quarter, leading the Golden State Warriors past the Denver Nuggets 115-101 on Sunday night for a commanding 3-1 series lead.

Curry shot 10 of 16 from the floor and added seven assists in a dominant and dazzling display that rivaled his days in the NCAA tournament for tiny Davidson. His five 3-pointers in the third quarter lifted Golden State to a 20-point lead and its third straight victory in this frenetic and flashy series.

Jarrett Jack added 21 points and nine assists and Andrew Bogut broke out in the first half with 12 points and five rebounds for the sixth-seeded Warriors, who can close out the Nuggets in Game 5 on Tuesday night in Denver.

Ty Lawson scored 26 points and Andre Iguodala had 19 for the third-seeded Nuggets.