The State High School Baseball Champions were crowned at Haymarket Park in Lincoln yesterday. In Class A, Creighton Prep defeated Lincoln Northeast, twice, to take the title. The Junior Jays won game one 14-4 in six innings and won the second game 12-2 in six innings. In Class, B, Norris defeated South Sioux City 14-5, to advance to the title game versus Lincoln Pius X. In the championship, the Pius Thunderbolts defeated Norris, 2-1.
After day one of the State High School Girls Tennis Championships, Omaha Westside leads in Class A with 36 points. Millard North and Omaha Marian are tied for second with 32. The Fremont Lady Tigers are 13th with 12 points. At #1 singles, Sydney Robertson went 1-and-1, Thursday. She defeated Allison Lariviere of Bellevue East, 6-3. 6-4, but lost to Katherine Nelson of Omaha Marian, 6-1, 6-2. At #2 singles, Kylie Shiermann defeated Kayla Fowler of Norfolk, 6-0, 6-0, but then lost to Chelsea Haack of Columbus, 6-0, 6-0. At #1 doubles, Lindsay Strong and Carly Gross defeated Meghan Johnson and Kayla Guerrero of Omaha Benson, 6-0, 6-3. Strong and Gross then lost to Jessica Koraleski and Courtney Warren of Omaha Marian, 6-1, 6-0. At #2 doubles, Abbie Voorhies and Rachel Samuelson defeated Cassandra Hunter and Talesha Galaviz of Lincoln North Star 6-4, 6-7 (4-7), 6-3. Voorhies and Samuelson then lost to Leigha Limbach and Stephanie Shields of Kearney 6-2, 6-0. Final Round action in class A continues at Koch Tennis Center at Tranquility Park, in Omaha, Today.
In Class B, Omaha Skutt Catholic leads with 36 points. Elkhorn South is second with 34 and Omaha Duchesne Academy is third with 26. Final Round action in Class B is today at the Nebraska Tennis Center, in Lincoln.
The National Fastpitch Coaches Association has announced its 2012 NAIA All-Region teams. Named to the NAIA Southwest Region’s first team was Midland University’s Ashley Willard. Midland’s Kathy Curtis picked up NAIA Southwest Region Second Team honors.
Willard, a senior from Eagle Grove, Iowa, finished the 2012 season with a .375 batting average. She landed 60 hits and accumulated the 22nd most stolen bases in the nation (28).
Kathy Curtis, a senior from Omaha, Neb., hit .369 on the season with a team-high 53 RBI’s. She also led the Warriors in homeruns (7) and doubles (8).
NFCA member coaches in each of the five regions select the NFCA All-Region teams, and honorees are now eligible to be selected to one of two 2012 NFCA NAIA All-American teams.
The 2012 NFCA All-American teams will be announced on Friday, May 25.
The Nebraska State High School Track & Field Championships begin tomorrow at Burke Stadium in Omaha. Classes B &D begin at 9:00 today while Classes A & C begin at 3:00 this afternoon. Fremont High is sending 12 boys and 12 girls to State while Archbishop Bergan is sending 4 girls. We’ll provide hourly updates today and tomorrow on Gold 105.5.

Fremont High School Head Softball Coach Mike Schleicher and his staff will be conducting a softball skills development camp for girls entering grades 4-12 on May 29-31 at Christensen Field. Girls entering grades 4-8 will be from 9-11am and girls entering grades 9-12 will be from 1-3pm. Cost is $25 and early registration deadline (ensures at t-shirt) is today. Campers must provide their own glove, water bottle, and transportation to and from the camp. Contact Mike Schleicher at 727-3050 for more information.
Summer legion baseball tryouts will be today at 4pm and Saturday at 10am at Moller Field. There will be three teams this summer…a reserve, ages 14-16 team, a juniors team and a seniors team. The teams are sponsored by First State Bank of Fremont.
The Midland University football program will hold a father/child camp this Saturday. For more information, go to www.midlandufootballcamps.com.

A motorboat safety course is being offered at the Fremont City Auditorium at 9th & Broad Streets. The cost is $10 per person and can be paid to the instructor the first day of the class. Participants must attend both days of a class to pass. Upcoming classes include June 15th from 9-noon and June 16 from 6-9. Classes will also be held in July and August. Call the Fremont Parks & Recreation Department to reserve a spot. For more information about the course, contact conservation officer Dan Roberts.
The Fremont Girls Basketball Camp for athletes entering grades 6-12 is scheduled for 9-11:30am June 4-6. Cost is $25 and includes a T-shirt and snacks. If possible, campers should have their registrations turned in by May 29th. Checks should be made payable to Fremont High School, c/o Tony Weinandt at Fremont High School. Contact coach Weinandt for more information.

The Nebraska baseball team (33-20, 13-9 Big Ten) secured its spot at next week’s Big Ten Baseball Tournament on Thursday night with a 15-2 win over the Michigan Wolverines at Wilpon Complex. The 15 runs were the most for the Huskers in a Big Ten opener this season, as every Husker starter had at least one hit on the night. NU strung together a conference-high 20 hits off four Michigan pitchers, including a career-high four hits Rich Sanguinetti, who also tied a career high with four RBI’s. Four Huskers roped doubles on the night, while Kale Kiser stroked his first triple of the season.
On the mound, lefty Kyle Kubat continued to set the pace for the Huskers, as the freshman picked up his third straight win in conference play. Now 5-0 on the season, Kubat went 6.0 innings and gave up just two runs on six hits and one walk, while punching out six. Kubat has gone six innings or more in all three of his Big Ten starts this and has allowed no more than two earned runs, while striking out 16.
Junior Ryan Hander will try to win the series for the Huskers today when he takes the mound for his second career conference start at 5:05 p.m. (CT) against senior right-hander Brandon Sinnery. The game will be broadcast on AM 1340 KHUB with the Husker Sports Network.
Husker senior golfer Scott Willman is tied for 48th after shooting a 3-over-par 75 in the first round of the NCAA Norman Regional on Thursday.
Willman opened the round at Jimmie Austin OU Golf Club with two pars before making bogey and double bogey on the third and fourth holes, respectively. The Prairie Village, Kan., native closed the front nine with five pars en route to a 3-over-par 39.
The NCAA Norman Regional continues today with the second round. Players will tee off at 8 a.m.
Senior right-hander Ashley Hagemann was Nebraska’s lone all-region selection as announced by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association on Thursday. Hagemann earned second-team All-Midwest region honors for the second consecutive season.
Hagemann was a second-team All-Big Ten selection in 2012 after posting a 23-17 record with a 2.62 ERA. Hagemann was a workhorse for the Huskers in her final season, appearing in 47 of Nebraska’s 55 games, including 38 starts. She threw nearly 75 percent of NU’s total innings while continuing to be one of the nation’s top strikeout pitchers. Hagemann struck out 320 batters in 2012, a total that currently ranks sixth nationally. She was the only pitcher in the Big Ten Conference to strike out 300 batters this season, and she joined Ashley DeBuhr as the only Huskers to post back-to-back 300-strikeout seasons. Her 320 strikeouts this season gave her 988 career strikeouts, as she ended her career as Nebraska’s all-time strikeout leader.
Hagemann’s senior season also helped her rank highly among several Nebraska career charts. In addition to finishing as Nebraska’s all-time strikeout leader, Hagemann ranks third in Husker history in innings pitched (821.0) and complete games (87), fourth in wins (75), sixth in saves (8), eighth in shutouts (20) and ninth in no-hitters (1).

The Creighton baseball team erupted offensively in the bottom of the eighth inning, pushing across four runs on five hits to claim game one of the three-game series, 7-3. The win improves Creighton to 22-26 overall, 6-12 in the Valley while the Shockers fall to 33-23 overall, 10-9 in league play.
Bluejay starting pitcher Ty Blach surrendered a pair of two-out singles in the top of the first inning, before inducing a ground ball to shortstop to close the top half of the inning. From that point on, the southpaw allowed just one hit in the next six complete innings, not allowing a single Shocker past second base.
Creighton and Wichita State play the second game of the three-game series this evening with first pitch scheduled for 7:00 pm from TD Ameritrade Park Omaha.
The University of Nebraska Omaha women’s basketball team has signed one more recruit to a National Letter of Intent to join the Mavericks for the upcoming season.

Allison Jackson, a 6-0 senior at Burges High School in El Paso, Texas, has signed to play for the Mavericks in 2012-13. Jackson averaged 14.6 points and 8.8 rebounds per game this season for Burges and was a second-team all-city selection by the El Paso Times.
Jackson joins junior college transfers Ericka House and Casse Vaughn, as well as incoming freshmen Kate Bayes and Ashlie Bruner, in the 2012 signing class.