Volleyball:
No. 5 Midland University completed its perfect run through pool play at the NAIA National Championship with a four-set victory over No. 12 Oklahoma City University on Wednesday night at the Tyson Events Center. Priscilla O'Dowd matched her career high with 23 kills in Midland's 16-25, 25-14, 25-22, 25-20 win. Midland improves to 29-3 overall this season while OKC falls to 32-4 on the year. Both teams will advance to the single-elimination bracket of the national tournament. The Lady Warriors return to action on Friday morning against No. 24 Montana Tech at 11:15 a.m. The game will be broadcast on AM 1340 KHUB. The winner will advance to the Elite Eight of the National Championship.
Swimming:
In high school swimming, yesterday, the Fremont High boys and girls both recorded wins over Columbus. The girls won 117-79 and the boys won 110-81.
On the girls side they started the meet in style hitting a state secondary time in the medley relay. The foursome of Justine Blick, Lauren Gifford, Kinley Shallberg, and Emma Walz cruised to a win in 2:00 and just missed the state auto cut as well as the school record set last year.
Walz continued her first meet as a tiger with impressive swims, swimming state secondary cuts in both the 200 free and the 100 fly. She also lead the girls 4×50 relay hitting a state secondary in the 50 free and aided the relay with teammates Kaylin Brown, Lauren Gifford, and Kirstyn Leffler getting another state secondary cut.
Sophomore Kinley Shallberg also had some individual state secondary cuts of her own. Shallberg hit state secondary cuts in her 50 free, 500 free, and the 100 free in the first leg of the 4×100 free relay.
Lauren Gifford was the final individual girl with some state cuts to add. Lauren hit state secondary cuts in the 200 IM and 100 Breaststroke.
On the boys side they decided to follow in the same fashion as the girls when the foursome of Mack Prince, JJ Pelikan, Grant Westermann, and Colton Juhl hit a state secondary time in the medley relay.
Wrestling:
In high school wrestling, Blair beat Fremont, 53-18. Cody Fielder, Cody Carlson and Colton McCurdy earned wins. Papio LaVista South beat Fremont, 45-36. Noah Malzahn, Cody Carlson and Justin Pettite earned bout wins for the Tigers.
Basketball:
In girls' high school basketball, Omaha Westside beat Fremont, 57-37. Sam Shepard scored 21 in the loss. Fremont plays Lincoln Southeast, Saturday at 1:00 at Omaha Westside.
In boys' action, Fremont beat Westside 55-39. Nolan Dillon scored 23 points while Riley Harms and Zach Woehrer added 12. Fremont will play Lincoln Southeast at 3:45 on Saturday at Papillion LaVista South.
Today:
Today, the Fremont High wrestling team hosts the Fremont High Invite at Al Bahe Gymnasium at 3:30pm.
The Archbishop Bergan girls basketball team will host Bishop Neumann tonight at 7:30. The game will be broadcast on AM 1340 KHUB.
The Midland men's hockey team will host Williston State College at 7:30 tonight at the Sidner Ice Arena.
Volleyball:
No. 21 Creighton (27-6) takes on fourth-ranked and fifth-seeded Kansas (27-2) on Friday night at 6:30 pm Central with a berth in the Sweet 16 on the line. It's a rematch of the Sept. 8 battle in Omaha, won by Kansas in five sets (25-21, 23-25, 21-25, 28-26, 15-13). That contest is one of just 10 matches that Creighton has lost in the last 14 years when leading 2-1.
Basketball:
Omaha jumped out to a 10-0 lead and cruised to a 98-49 win over Lincoln University on Thursday night at Baxter Arena. The Mavericks improved to 4-3 (0-0 Summit League), while the Blue Tigers are now 1-4 (0-0 MIAA).
Ellie Brecht led all scorers with a career-high 22 points in just 19 minutes, hitting 8-of-13 field goals, including 6-of-10 from 3-point range.
Omaha wraps up a four-game homestand on Sunday, Dec. 4 against Kansas State at Baxter Arena. Tipoff is set for 2 p.m.,