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UNO’s Elsasser wins pitcher award for fourth time

May 2, 2012 By

For the fourth time this season and second week in a row, Dana Elsasser has been named Great West Conference Pitcher of the Week. Elsasser shut out South Dakota 1-0 last Tuesday to improve to 13-7, then earned her second save of the season in 0.2 innings of relief in a 2-0 win over the Coyotes.

The sophomore from Hershey, Neb., allowed four hits and one walk over 7.2 innings and has given up just one earned run in her last seven starts. Elsasser has eight shutouts in her last 14 starts, including two in a row, and her 0.80 ERA is the top mark among all Division I pitchers. Her four weekly honors are the most this season among all Great West Conference players.

There was a great story in the Omaha World Herald about Elsasser’s rise from learning how to pitch to being at the top of her game.

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Three NU games chosen for prime time

April 24, 2012 By

 

The Big Ten Conference and ABC/ESPN have announced that three 2012 Nebraska football games have been selected for prime-time telecasts.

Nebraska home games at Memorial Stadium against Wisconsin on Sept. 29 and Michiganon Oct. 27, and its road game at Ohio Stateon Oct. 6 will all kick off at 7 p.m. CT. All three of the games will be shown on ABC, ESPN or ESPN2, with the network designation to be made at a later date.

The three Nebraska games are part of 14 Big Ten games selected for prime-time telecasts on either ABC, ESPN, ESPN 2 or BTN during the 2012 season. The games announced on Tuesday are the only Big Ten Conference home games that will be played in prime time during the 2012 season. No additional night games will be added at a later date.

The Big Ten Conference will also announce television information and kickoff times for the first three weeks of the season (Sept. 1, 8 and 15) no later than July 1.

Nebraska’s Sept. 8 game at UCLA will be part of the Pac-12 Conference television package, and could still be selected for a night telecast. An announcement on that game is expected by early June.

Nebraska also played three night games in its first season in the Big Ten Conference in 2011. The Huskers’ games with Wisconsin and Ohio State were also played in prime time last season, as was Nebraska’s non-conference home game with Fresno State.

The two night games at Memorial Stadium in 2012 will mark the seventh straight season Nebraska has played two or more prime-time games in Lincoln. Nebraska is 35-5 all-time in night games at Memorial Stadium and has won its last nine prime-time games in Lincoln.

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Hagemann strikes out 17 in Huskers win over UNO

April 19, 2012 By

The Husker softball team pulled out a 1-0 win over Nebraska-Omaha in eight innings. NU’s Ashley Hagemann picked up her 19th victory of the season, going all eight innings with a season high 17 strikeouts. UNO’s Dana Elsasser pitched all eight innings as well, allowed seven hits and no walks and struck out three.

Nebraska’s Taylor Edwards hit an RBI single to left field to score Maddie Fowler from third in the top of the eighth inning, and NU’s Ashley Hagemann closed out the complete-game win in the bottom of eighth, striking out Katelyn Hinton with pinch runner Mollie Jones on first base after Lauren Larson’s single.

The Mavs fell to 19-14 on the season. UNO dropped the season series to the Huskers, 2-0, with both losses coming by a single run. Nebraska improved to 27-16 on the season.

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UNO men send Sapp Fieldhouse out with a win

February 16, 2012 By

The Nebraska Omaha men’s basketball team closed the book on its Sapp Fieldhouse era on Wednesday night, defeating in-state rival Nebraska-Kearney 85-68 in front of a season-high crowd of 1,949 fans. With the win, the Mavericks improve to 11-16 on the year, while the Lopers drop to 13-10.

The game marked the final men’s basketball game played at Sapp Fieldhouse, as the Mavericks will play at the new Ralston Sports and Events Center beginning with the 2012-13 season. Sapp Fieldhouse has been the home of Maverick men’s basketball since its opening in 1949. To celebrate Alumni Night, former players were honored with a variety of special presentations throughout the game.

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UNO hockey beats #1 team in the nation (AUDIO)

January 16, 2012 By

The Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks hockey team ended No. 1 Minnesota Duluth’s 17-game unbeaten streak, beating the defending national champions 3-1 on Saturday night in Omaha. The win gave the Mavericks a split of the weekend series against the nation’s top team. They are now 11-9-4 overall and 8-5-3 in the WCHA. It was the first win for the Mavericks against a top-ranked team since they beat Miami 4-2 on Feb. 20, 2010.

The game-winning goal came on a heads up play by UNO freshman Andrew Schmit. He took a pass from Brent Gwidt and whipped the puck on goal. The shot surprised UMD goalie Kenny Reiter, and the puck broke through his pads for Schmit’s first collegiate goal.

Josh Archibald scored into an empty net with a little over a minute remaining to ice the game. The Mavericks were outshot 44-15 for the game but rode the sparkling goaltending of freshman Ryan Massa who made 43 saves for his fifth win of the year.

AUDIO Goalie Ryan Massa on the win

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