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The lights have gone out at Faurot Field in Columbia. Mo. There are still auxilary lights on behind the stadium and in the press box, but the field lights have been out for about six minutes now. The south scoreboard is still on but the big score board in on the north is out too.

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The 2009 Nebraska volleyball season has finally arrived. As of Friday morning, we still didn't know what John Cook's lineup will look like Friday night when the Huskers take the floor against Michigan. Cook isn't going to release that information until shortly before the match.Here's a partial guess at least. Expect to see Sydney Anderson at setter and Tara Mueller at one outside hitter position.

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Softball teams from Central City and Aurora both had impressive showings in Saturday's Grand Island Northwest Tournament.Central City (8-4) beat York 3-2 and downed Northwest 6-0 in the semifinals with pitcher Kate Erickson taking a no-hitter into the seventh inning against the Vikings. The Bison fell 2-1 in eight innings to Gothenburg in the championship game, but had several opportunities to

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Here's some of the top match-ups to keep on eye on this Friday as teams in most classes wrap up their non-district schedule:Grand Island Senior High at Lincoln Southwest -- The Thursday Seacrest Field game features a pair of 2-1 teams whose only losses have come in double overtime. The Islanders begin district play next week against North Platte. The Silver Hawks get Kearney. This will be two

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If you see Grand Island Central Catholic coach Sharon Zavala this week, she will probably be smiling. Her Class C-1 No. 1 Crusaders came through a tough week unscathed. They beat a very good Columbus Scotus team on Thursday, then beat Class B No. 3 Grand Island NW, Class B No. 5 Omaha Mercy and Lexington on Saturday to win their own invitational.Zavala said before last season that her freshman

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Ran across a couple of interesting stories last week covering back-to-back days of girls high school golf invitationals at Grand Island's Jackrabbit Run Golf Course.Last Thursday at the Grand Island Central Catholic Invitational, Doniphan-Trumbull's Danielle Lemek continued her early domination of the Class C golf scene by shooting a 3-over-par 75 to make it 2-for-2 for her in major tournaments

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Nobody should complain about being unable to find a good high school football game near Grand Island this Friday.Within 25 miles you have:Defending Class A champion Omaha Central at Grand Island Senior High. The Eagles are trying to avoid an 0-3 start.Defending two-time Class B champion at Northwest. This is a battle of 1-1 teams who have been moving the football.McCook at Aurora. The Class B No.

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There are some big volleyball matches this week in and around Grand Island. It starts Tuesday night when Class C-2 No. 1 Ravenna hosts Class C-1 No. 4 St. Paul and Loup City in a triangular. On Thursday, C-1 No. 1 Grand Island Central Catholic plays at C-1 No. 2 Columbus Scotus.Central Catholic will host the first GICC Invitational on Saturday. The Crusaders are in one pool with Lexington and

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After stunning No. 1-rated Omaha Creighton Prep to open the Class A State Tournament, the Islanders got to relax and wait to find out its next opponent. Now, 48 hours later, it is Omaha Westside who moved on to face G.I. in the second round.Coach Rick Kissack and the players didn't feel there was a big benefit to getting the only game in on Saturday. They are living the one-game-at-a-time motto,

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The Grand Island Northwest boys soccer team is one win away from qualifying for the Class B State Tournament. The Vikings used a three-goal explosion in overtime to knock off Columbus Lakeview 4-1 on Tuesday in the semifinals.Northwest will have to get past York in Thursday's championship. The fifth-seeded Dukes have already eliminated fourth-seeded Hastings and top-seeded Columbus Lakeview.If

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Broken Bow's Katie White is at it again. She won the Class B state 3,200 as a freshman in 11:34.5 and again as a sophomore in 11:40.5. Injuries prevented her from performing at her best last year, but on Saturday White won the Southwest Conference title in a personal best 11:09.6.You would think with good conditions and someone to push her, White could get under 11:00. The problem is there

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We're just three days away from the16th annual Central Nebraska Track and Field Championships sponsored by The Independent. It should be another interesting day at Memorial Stadium in Grand Island. The weather has prevented some of the athletes from performing at their best, but we'll likely see some outstanding performances on Monday.Keep an eye on the Grand Island Senior High girls track team.

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Grand Island continues its tradition of sending baseball players to the college level. Pitcher Eric Schwieger is the latest, as he signed a letter-of-intent on Wednesday to play at Wayne State.Schwieger returned two weeks ago from a lengthy absence due to a shoulder injury suffered last summer. He's proven to be a big addition to the Islanders, who are looking to get things headed in the right

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Here are my picks for the boys state tournament.BobHamar Class A Thursday, March. 6 At Devaney Sports Center 2 p.m. - - Ralston (21-2) over Bellevue East (16-9) 3:45 p.m. - - Creighton Prep (21-2) over Lincoln High (19-4) 7 p.m. - - Bellevue West (23-2) over Omaha Benson (16-7 8:45 p.m. - - Kearney (18-6) over Omaha Central (22-3) Friday, March 7 At Devaney Sports Center 7 p.m. - -

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The NSAA board of directors decided Wednesday that the tbree-day 2008 state volleyball tournament will start on Nov. 13 at Pershing Auditorium and five other high schools in the Lincoln area. Matches will begin at 1:30 p.m. The semifinals will be played on Nov. 14 at Pershing and a Lincoln High school with the championship matches on Nov. 15 at the NU Coliseum.

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The first day of the 2008 Girls State Basketball Tournament turned out to be the last day for the two area teams.North Loup-Scotia fell to defending Class D-2 state champion Ewing while Grand Island Central Catholic lost to undefeated Cambridge in Class C-2.Both teams lost by double digits. Both teams struggled to get the offense going.While the loss will sting for a while, it must be remembered

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I've been to a lot of games this year. I haven't added them up, but I've probably watched more than 50 at least. All too often, I've had loud, obnoxious fans sitting right behind me, complaining about how the referees were awful and the coach didn't know what he was doing.Monday I was at the Class C-1, District 4 final at Aurora between Hastings St. Cecilia and Boone Central. I would have to say

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They are the few, the proud, the girls state basketball tournament qualifiers from The Independent's coverage area.This year only two of the 44 area teams earned a trip to Lincoln, the lowest in recent memory.North Loup-Scotia earned the only district championship of the area teams by beating Lindsay Holy Family. The Wildcats face Ewing in the first round of a tough Class D-2 field in the 4 vs. 5

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The boys are now headed into the subdistrict finals for the lower classes and so far there have been a couple of surprises. Some may have been a bit surprised to see Gibbon upset Class C-2, No. 3 Grand Island Central Catholic 50-46 Tuesday night in overtime. The Crusaders were unable to get enough offense going to win this game. Spencer Fahey had 27 points, but one player scoring usually isn't

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Sites and times for girls basketball district finals in classes C-1, C-2, D-1 and D-2 were announced today. All games will be held on Friday, Feb. 22.Six area teams have advanced to within one win of the state tournament.In Class C-1, Ord (12-8) looks to upset Crofton (21-1). The game will be held in Neligh at 7 p.m.In Class C-2 Ravenna (19-5), after back-to-back wins over 18-win teams, now takes

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With a hotly contest weekend of district wrestling action just behind us, area fans will barely have time to regather themselves as the three-day state tournament run begins Thursday at the Qwest Center in Omaha.Who are some of the top wrestlers to watch? Well, let's start with the list of unbeaten grapplers, provided by the NSAA. This list includes three area athletes in Logan Williams of

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The NSAA held its every-other-year test of its servers when it released the high school football schedules for the next two seasons this morning.All of the schedules are available at nssahome.org.A look at the schedules for the four Grand Island schools:GRAND ISLAND SENIOR HIGHNew opponents—Omaha Central (making it the third straight year the defending Class A champion comes to G.I.), Lincoln

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The Grand Island Central Catholic girls basketball team will play for the Centennial Conference Tournament title on Saturday after a solid 52-38 win over Fremont Archbishop Bergan on Thursday.It was especially impressive considering that leading scorer Alicia Statler sat all but about 10 minutes of the first three quarters due to foul trouble. Senior guard Tali Fredrickson stepped up and posted a

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Adams Central's run of consecutive Lou-Platte Conference wrestling tournament victories was finally halted at six last Saturday as Wood River edged the Patriots 149-143 for the team title at St. Paul. Garret Lambrecht (103 pounds) and Dustin McCord (171) both won LPC titles at their respective weight classes to lead the way for Wood River. Kevin Harders (140) and Dylan Gill (145) added

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Lost in the avalanche of college basketball action over the weekend, Hastings College women’s coach Tony Hobson picked up his 400th career coaching victory Sunday as the Broncos beat Dakota Wesleyan 62-47 at Mitchell, S.D.Hobson’s overall record is 400-98 heading into this Saturday's 2 p.m. game against Morningside College at Hastings.In his seven seasons with the Broncos, Hobson is 198-37. In

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Former Grand Island standout Ann Armes was back in town for Christmas break. Armes, who was The Independent's girls athlete of the year for the 2006-07 school year, joined the Kentucky volleyball program last fall. Armes, who redshirted this season, said things are going well at Kentucky. She is now training at middle blocker for coach Craig Skinner. Armes said Skinner, a former assistant at

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With the snow and sub-freezing temps, most minds aren't on football. But for those hardcore prep football fantatics, Friday was like a belated Christmas. The Nebraska School Activities Association released the districts for the 2008-09 seasons, giving teams a hint of what their schedules will look like.In Class A, Grand Island Senior High is in the six-team District 1. They remain in the same

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With all the weather-related delays and postponements, it seems odd to think that it's already two weeks into the winter sports season. After all, with the recent streak of storms, area teams have played anywhere from one to seven games.After Thursday's action, the list of area undefeateds is down to Giltner (5-0), Grand Island Northwest (1-0), Heartland (2-0), Loup County (3-0), North

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It looks like there will be some good basketball in Grand Island this season. A couple of players who returned to action Friday will give their teams a big boost.The Grand Island CC boys got Spencer Fahey back from a knee injury and the junior promptly scored 19 points to lead the Crusaders past Columbus Scotus. GICC had been playing tough defense all season, but Bill Gavers' team needed Fahey's

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After verbally committing to Nebraska 11 months ago, Grand Island Senior High senior Kash Kalkowski officially signed with the Huskers on Wednesday.Kalkowski proved to be one of the top pitchers, hitters and shortstops in the state earlier this year while playing for the Islanders in the spring and Home Federal in the summer.It's always nice to see the top players stay in state, and Kalkowski

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LINCOLN - - Ord defeated Kearney Catholic 25-21, 25-17, 25-22 in a Class C-1 state semifinal match Friday night at Lincoln Southwest High School.The Chants improved to 26-2 with the win. They will play in the C-2 final at 11 a.m. Saturday at Pershing Auditorium against the winner of the Centennnial Minden match.

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Five area teams are in action today hoping to advance to Saturday's semifinal round. In Class B, Hastings travels to McCook and Aurora is at Cozad. In Class C-1, Adams Central is at Pierce and Boone Central goes to Norfolk Catholic. In Class C-2, Burwell plays at Cambridge.Four of those teams have to be considered underdogs, with the Aurora-Cozad matchup a toss-up on paper. Some upsets will have

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The stage has been set for the biggest regular season NFL football game since ... well ... maybe forever. The unbeaten and thus far unchallenged New England Patriots play at the unbeaten Indianapolis Colts Sunday in Indianapolis.The Patriots have been unstoppable so far this season on offense, but they haven't played a defense as good as Indianapolis. The Colts are much better this year than last

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Except for Class A and six-man tonight and Class B next week, the first round of the playoffs are complete. It was a typical opening round. There were some upsets, some not-so-upsets and plenty of blowouts. That's expected when over half the teams in the state qualify for the postseason.Burwell's win over Heartland in Class C-2 was a thouroughly enjoyable game. Some trick plays by both teams and

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There was a lot of talk early in the season about how bad the Big 12 was. There were some struggles early, but now it's obvious the Big 12 isn't as bad as advertised. In fact, it's pretty darn good.There may not be any great teams in the conference, but their are several that could pull in a BCS berth - including a couple from the previously horrid Big 12 North. Missouri and Kansas both have that

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In some rare positive football news this week in the state, it is Day 2 of the annual two-day end of regular season football festival. If Thursday was any indication, tonight should be a fun night.Teams are fighting for playoff berths, home games and district titles. Grand Island Senior High hosts Kearney trying to bring an end to the Bearcats' winning ways in a battle for a district

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Once again, the Grand Island high schools are producing some outstanding volleyball teams. Grand Island coach Bill Root, GINW coach Diane Rouzee and GICC coach Sharon Zavala are among the top coaches in the state.The Islanders are following up last year's state runner-up finish with another fine season. They may not be quite as talented as last year's team, but they play hard and get the job done

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Day one of the state softball tournament is almost in the books, and it was a rough one for Grand Island Senior High. The Islanders fell to Papillion-LaVista South 10-2 in five innings and Omaha Westside 10-0 in four innings. Still, the Islanders generated some highlights while taking a 2-1 lead against PLVS in the second inning. They had four hits in the inning against a team that hasn't given

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With only three games left in the regular season, district races are really heating up.There are plenty of interesting games in the area this week with district ramifications. Grand Island Senior High hosts North Platte in a meeting of teams that are 2-0 in the Class A, District 1 standings. The winner gets a likely district championship showdown against No. 1 Kearney.The only 2-o teams in Class

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Asked this week about his reaction to home fans at Nebraska and Arkansas booing their teams, Colorado coach Dan Hawkins had a interesting take.While Hawkins said he could certainly understand the argument that if someone pays for a ticket, they can say or do about anything they want inside the stadium, he doesn't neccessarily agree with that."At some point, we have to have a little poise,"

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Around the Big 12 @Senior Emily Brown recorded her third career triple-double to help the University of Kansas volleyball team to a 3-0 sweep over Texas Tech Saturday afternoon at the Horejsi Family Athletics Center. Freshman Karina Garlington and junior Savannah Noyes also recorded double-digit kills to help lift the Jayhawks over the Red Raiders 30-27, 30-24 and 30-25 in their second straight

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& Kansas downed Missouri 3-2 Wednesday behind Brittany Williams’ 15 kills for its first Big 12 victory since Oct. 14 of last year. It was also KU’s first conference road win since Nov. 9, 2005 and snaps a 12-match conference losing streak. & Texas freshman Juliann Faucette slammed 23 kills and hit .583 in the Longhorns’ three-game sweep of Iowa State. Faucette had just two errors in 36 swings.

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If you haven't seen Kansas coach Mark Mangino's outburst, it's available on YouTube. Mangino was upset after a Kansas player dove into the end zone head first drawing a 15-yard unsportsman like conduct penalty.Mangino has taken a lot of heat for this incident. I say good for him. If it was my son who had drawn the penalty, I would expect the coach to set him straight. Some are concerned with his

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The regular season is one quarter of the way through, and of the 44 teams in The Independent's coverage area, only 14 remain undefeated. Twelve remain in search of their first win. I guess that's what you call parity.Of the undefeated teams, only three are paired up against other perfect teams this week. In Class C-2, Ravenna is at Heartland. In Class D-1, High Plains is at Humphrey.The battle of

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It's always a big win for Grand Island Central Catholic when the Crusaders can beat rival Columbus Scotus. GICC got the job done Thursday night, but it wasn't a typical GICC/Scotus match as we've seen in recent years.This one wasn't a classic by any means. Both teams struggled somewhat, but that shouldn't be too surprising. Both teams are very young. The Crusaders start two freshmen and had a

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It's Sept. 3 and the Cubs are still in first place. Jason Stark was on ESPN Radio today saying he thinks the Cubs have what it takes to make it to the World Series - but then again, they are the Cubs.The Cubs have no huge weaknesses. The starting pitching is solid as is the relief corp, including closer Ryan Dempster. The offense has been productive even without hitting a lot of home runs. The

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The Omaha-World Herald's first prep volleyball ratings are out. Omaha Marian is rated No. 1 in Class A while Grand Island Senior High checks in at No. 8Defending champ Lincoln Pius X is tops in Class B. Grand Island Northwest is fourth and Aurora fifth.Columbus Scotus leads C-1 with Central City seventh.Grand Island Central Catholic and Ravenna are 1-2 in Class C-2. That is a reflection of the

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You have to give K-State coach Ron Prince this: He is always interesting.Last week when the offense didn't perform well in practice, he made the players run stairs. But Prince not only made the players run stairs, he made the offensive assistants run as well. Maybe it will all work out for Prince and the Wildcats, but I have to wonder about this latest development.Assistant coaches need to be

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The NSAA voted Friday to make some changes in the start times for the state basketball tournaments. The first- and second-round games will start at 9 a.m. instead of 9:30 a.m. The championship games on Saturday will again begin at 9:30 a.m.For the first two days of the tournaments, games will start at 9 a.m., 10:45 a.m., 2 p.m., 3:45 p.m., 7 p.m. and 8:45 p.m. The time changes may lead into a

Bob Hamarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17989188846623863549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8113218129943788699.post-38526911918959384082007-08-24T11:02:00.000-05:002007-08-24T11:11:05.478-05:00

The prep volleyball season is less than a week away. All four Grand Island schools are now making their final preparations for their opening matches.The Islanders, coming off a 31-3 season that saw them advance all the way to the Class A championship match before falling to power house Bellevue West. Coach Bill Root won't have the same power up front with the loss of Ann Armes, Jeri Walkowiak and

Bob Hamarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17989188846623863549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8113218129943788699.post-38626433653950304002007-08-14T21:01:00.001-05:002007-08-14T21:06:17.808-05:00

Word came today that the NCAA is once again tinkering with the format of the College World Series in Omaha. The plan now is to start one day later on a Saturday and not begin the best-of-three championship series until the second Monday of the tournament.While I suppose it's always natural to dislike change, you have to wonder why the NCAA would want to mess with something that has been as

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The NSAA enrollment figures for the 2007-08 school hear are interesting. Grand Island (1,473) is the 11th largest school in the state. The top 10 are all from the Omaha area: Omaha Central (2087), Millard North (1844), Omaha Northwest (1644), Millard South (1596), Creighton Prep (1582), Omaha North (1579), Omaha South (1565), Omaha Westside (1549), Omaha Burke (1529), Millard West (1506).Kearney,

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