Husker second baseman Pat Kelly was picked for first-team honors on the National College Baseball Writers Association’s Freshman All-American Team. Kelly batted .313 with eight home runs and 37 RBI for the Huskers this past season. He’s the first Husker to be named to the NCBWA’s Freshman All-American team since it was established in 2008. Kelly was also named a Freshman All-American by Collegiate Baseball, making him the first Husker to be so honored by two different sources since Johnny Dorn in 2005.

BASEBALL
Interleague
Washington at Toronto, 6:07 p.m.
Boston at Miami, 6:10 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees at Atlanta, 6:10 p.m.
L.A. Angels at L.A. Dodgers, 9:10 p.m.

HOCKEY
STANLEY CUP FINAL
Game 6: New Jersey at Los Angeles, 7 p.m.

INTERLEAGUE
N-Y Yankees 5 N-Y Mets 4
Tampa Bay 4 Miami 2
Pittsburgh 3 Kansas City 2
Baltimore 5 Philadelphia 4, 10 Innings
Toronto 12 Atlanta 4
Washington 4 Boston 3
Chi Cubs 8 Minnesota 2
Houston 11 Chi White Sox 9
Cleveland 4 St. Louis 1
L.A. Angels 10 Colorado 8
Texas 5 San Francisco 0
L.A. Dodgers 8 Seattle 2
Arizona 4 Oakland 3
Detroit 7 Cincinnati 6

NATIONAL LEAGUE
Milwaukee 6 San Diego 5

Away from your TV this weekend? Here’s what you missed in the world of sports…

 

-The Miami Heat defeated the Boston Celtics in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals to earn their second consecutive trip to the NBA Finals. LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh combined to score 28 consecutive points for their team in the fourth quarter to lift the Heat to victory and complete their comeback from being down in the series, three games to two. The Heat and Oklahoma City Thunder open the NBA Finals on Tuesday night. You’ll be able to hear all that action on ESPN Radio 1410.

 

-The New Jersey Devils knocked off the Los Angeles Kings 2-1 in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final to keep the series alive. The Devils have won two straight games after falling behind three games to none. Game six is Monday night in Los Angeles.

 

-Union Rags won the Belmont Stakes, a race that had much less at stake when Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner I’ll Have Another withdrew from the race with an injury.

 

-Manny Pacquiao lost his WBO welterweight title to Timothy Bradley Jr. in a highly controversial split decision. Two officials had scored the fight 115-133 in favor of Bradley. The third judge had the fight 115-113 in favor of Pacquiao.

The North Platte First Nationals took home fourth place at the Kwik Stop Tournament in North Platte over the weekend. They wrapped up the weekend with a 17-1 loss to Hays, Kansas. The First Nationals went 2-2 in the tournament and now sit at 11-9 on the season. In softball action, the North Platte Junior Belles 16 and under and 10 and under teams won championships at the Buffalo Bill Softball Tournament over the weekend. The 16s beat the Colorado Rage 6-5 in 8 innings. The 10s topped the Colorado Adrenaline 10-2.

In another old-fashioned Coors Field slugfest, the Colorado Rockies came up short in a 10-8 loss to the Los Angeles Angels on Sunday afternoon. Rockies starting pitcher Christian Friedrich was shelled, putting his team in a 6-1 hole after an inning and a half and allowing a total of nine runs in his four innings of work. The Rockies tied the game in their half of the second on a three-run home run by Tyler Colvin and a two-run jack from Carlos Gonzalez. But a three-run homer by Mark Trumbo in the fourth gave the Angels the lead back for good. Marco Scutaro’s RBI single in the ninth inning helped the Rockies get the tying run to the plate, but the rally died soon after. The Rockies have now lost five straight games and are 0-6 in interleague play. They are off tonight before welcoming the Oakland A’s to town for a three-game set starting Tuesday night.

The eight-team field for the College World Series in Omaha contains one of the most unlikely Cinderellas of all time. The Stony Brook Sea Wolves, a fourth-seed in regional play out of the America East Conference, stunned LSU 7-2 in the third game of their best of three super-regional in Baton Rouge to advance to the College World Series for the first time. Also booking trips to Omaha this weekend were Arizona, Florida State, UCLA, and Florida. The final three spots will be decided today.

(Nebraska Sports Information)

The Nebraska track and field team completed competition at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Des Moines, Iowa, on Saturday as Luke Pinkelman, a senior from Cozad, came away with a third-place finish in the men’s shot put.

As the Huskers opened the NCAA Championships with a national champion and three All-Americans in the discus on Wednesday, it was only fitting for Nebraska to close the championships with a third-place finish in the men’s shot put and another All-America honor.

In the team standings, the Husker men finished tied for 11th with 20 total points, the best outdoor finish for the Huskers since the men posted a fifth-place finish at the NCAA Championships in 2003. The women finished with one point in the team standings (t-63rd).

The Huskers closed the NCAA Championships with a solid showing as Nebraska came away with five first-team All-America accolades and one NCAA title.

The point standings in each of the five IMCA divisions at Lincoln County Raceway in North Platte, Nebraska are tight as we near the halfway point of the 2012 campaign. The trip to the winners circle on Saturday night by Andrew Dillenburg, Mike Nichols, Shane Stout, Anthony Martin and Jose Sabala had a definite impact on the current point’s races in each division.

Starting on the pole position and winning from the pole position during a fast- paced IMCA Modifieds feature was Andrew Dillenburg of North Platte. Dillenburg built comfortable leads with clean air in front of him each lap, as he lead every lap of the feature to pick-up the checkered flag win. Heat race winner Ronnie Wallace of McCook, Nebraska showed great patience on the oval, as he was able to secure third place at the conclusion of lap four and with less than five laps remaining was able to move into the runner-up position, where he would have to settle, as he ran out of laps to catch up to Dillenburg. Recovering quite nicely from an early lap spin, Maxwell, Nebraska’s Charley Brown charged back into contention and finished third overall. Battling back-and-forth throughout the feature contest for top five positions were Dave Pedersen of Brady, Nebraska and Zach Schultz of North Platte, who finished fourth and fifth respectively when the checkered flags flew.

The IMCA Stock Cars division, labeled as the class ‘too tough to tame’, held up to their billing on Saturday in North Platte. Kent Lower of North Platte took the early lead and would lead the opening five laps of the Feature, before being passed by fellow North Platte hotshoe Mikey Dancer, who led laps six and seven. Dancer was looking to build on his lead, but suffered a flat tire wheeling and dealing through lap traffic and had to relinquish his lead to the current second place car piloted by Maywood, Nebraska’s Casey Werkmeister who then led lap eight. Soon thereafter Werkmeister fell back to the runner-up position when Mike Nichols of Harlan, Iowa; took over the front runner position on lap nine until the final checkered flags were unfurled and flexed. Feature runner-up Casey Werkmeister and Mikey Dancer were victorious in the early heat race action in the IMCA Stock Car division. Tightening up his belts and leaning on the wheel, Kyle Werkmeister of Maywood was able to recover from an early setback to run to the front and earn a spot on the podium at third place overall. Staying out of trouble and running consistent laps was the formula for success for Casey Woken of Ogallala,
Nebraska. Woken crossed the finish line in fourth place, taking home elite accolades. Early leader Kent Lower held on and was within contention with the leaders to earn a top five finish to round out the top five overall in the IMCA Stock Car Feature.

Grabbing the lead at the end of the fifth lap and holding onto the lead for the next 15 laps resulted in an IMCA Northern Sport Mod Feature win for North Platte’s Shane Stout. Stout was consistent in holding his line throughout the feature to hold off the hard charging Bryan Herrick of Curtis, Nebraska. Herrick started in the fifth row of the feature and drove his way to a runner-up finish. Also coming from deep in the starting grid to notch a podium finish was Rodger Morash of North Platte finishing third overall as he found the racing groove that worked best for him during the final laps to make the final passes into the top three positions. Rounding out the top five placers in the Northern Sport Mod Feature were the duo of Dillon Schultz and Don Fair, both of North Platte. Schultz was able to win the drag race out of corner number four to take home the fourth place accolades, Fair was fifth overall. In early IMCA Northern Sport Mod action, Robby Kosmacek and Corey Cruzan were heat race winners on Saturday.

Dueling for the win in the IMCA Hobby Stock Feature on Saturday Night creating the thunder and lightning were Wilcox, Nebraska’s Anthony Martin and Brady Weinman of Arnold, Nebraska. Martin and Weinman won the heat race battles earlier in the program in the Hobby Stock division. Taking the early lead and looking to run off and hide with only open track in front of him was Weinman during the initial laps, as he held a commanding lead for the first six completed laps. As a result of caution flags, the field of Hobby Stock competitors was bunched on the restart, and Weinman would feel pressure from Anthony Martin very soon, as he took over the lead on lap seven and never looked back picking up yet another Feature win in his Big Daddy Chassis Hobby Stock. Weinman pushed the pace for the remainder of the contest, with Martin in his sights, but wasn’t able to pass the Wilcox Wheelman and had to settle for runner-up accolades. Running the high groove and ducking to the low groove when needed, Holyoke, Colorado’s Ron Edge was third overall. Earning top five finishes for the efforts on the oval at Lincoln County Raceway was Chuck Ledbetter of Loomis, Nebraska and
Benkelman’s Austin Davis crossing the finish line in fourth and fifth, respectively.

North Platte’s Jose Sabala continued his dominance in the IMCA Sport Compacts division with another Feature win on Saturday night in North Platte.

INTERLEAGUE

Kansas City at Pittsburgh 6:05 p.m.
N-Y Mets at N-Y Yankees 6:05 p.m.
Philadelphia at Baltimore 6:05 p.m.
Detroit at Cincinnati 6:10 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Miami 6:10 p.m.
Washington at Boston 6:10 p.m.
Toronto at Atlanta 6:35 p.m.
Chi Cubs at Minnesota 7:10 p.m.
Houston at Chi White Sox 7:10 p.m.
Cleveland at St. Louis 7:15 p.m.
L.A. Angels at Colorado 7:40 p.m.
Oakland at Arizona 8:40 p.m.
L.A. Dodgers at Seattle 9:10 p.m.
Texas at San Francisco 9:15 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE

San Diego at Milwaukee 7:10 p.m.