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    Hockey at TD Ameritrade Park

    UNO might play an outdoor hockey game at TD Ameritrade Park. Would you attend?


    Total Votes: 13
     
    77%
    Of course!
     
    15%
    Most likely
     
    0%
    Not sure
     
    8%
    No way! Too cold
    Pearson's return helps revive Michigan Tech

    HOCKEY
    Pearson's return helps revive Michigan Tech
    Premium ContentPremium ContentClick on Premium Content on the Featured navigation bar for information.Mel Pearson doesn't mind admitting it. The head coaching position at Michigan Tech wouldn't have interested him had he not been a former player for the Huskies. "That's an absolute no," Pearson said. "I was content at Michigan (as a 23-year assistant under Red Berenson) — I'd been there so long and the university and Red had been so good to me. Every year we had a chance to win not only the league, but the national championship. »

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    HOCKEY
    Tough series, environment await Mavs
    Premium ContentPremium ContentClick on Premium Content on the Featured navigation bar for information.UNO's road to home ice for the WCHA playoffs didn't get any easier after the Mavericks managed to earn just one of four points at home last weekend against Bemidji State. Not that traveling to Houghton, Mich., is ever easy, but the road this weekend... »

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    BASKETBALL
    Hegge, USD hold Mavs to season-low point output

    Amber Hegge, a Crofton, Neb., native, scored 14 points as South Dakota handed the University of Nebraska at Omaha a 58-38 loss Tuesday. The Mavericks (13-11) scored eight points in the first half, finishing with their lowest scoring output and shooting percentage (23.2 percent) of the season. South Dakota (16-6) didn’t fare much better, shooting 28.2 percent overall and 3 of 27 from 3-point range.

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    HOCKEY
    Q&A with UNO forward Terry Broadhurst
    Q&A with UNO forward Terry Broadhurst

    Premium ContentPremium ContentClick on Premium Content on the Featured navigation bar for information.The Mavericks' captain is one of the fastest skaters in Division I hockey. After being limited to 30 games last season because of injury, the Orland Park, Ill., native started this season with 14 goals in 15 games. The 6-foot, 170-pound junior forward had a 12-game goal-scoring drought before breaking through for two more goals in Saturday's 6-4 loss to Bemidji State.

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    BASKETBALL
    Mavs glad to be busy and adding victories

    None of the University of Nebraska at Omaha men's basketball players is tired — or tired of winning after Sunday's 79-68 victory against Doane gave the Mavericks their third win in five days. The 10-15 Mavs shot 50 percent for much of the game while steadily pulling away in front of 179 at Sapp Fieldhouse. The game was rescheduled from Saturday, when it was postponed by the snowstorm.

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    HOCKEY
    Bemidji State breaks out for win
    Bemidji State breaks out for win

    Just what you least expected. Not only did UNO get into a high-scoring affair with Bemidji State, it was the low-scoring Beavers who emerged with a 6-4 victory Saturday night before 6,878 at CenturyLink Center, capping a series in which UNO managed to pick up only one point against a team that has become its nemesis.

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    TRACK & FIELD
    UNO's Laidley wins at Wichita State meet

    UNO's Kathie-Lee Laidley set the meet record on her way to winning the high jump at the Varsity Apartments Invitational on Saturday at Wichita State. Laidley had a leap of 5 feet, 8 inches, as season best for the sophomore who also owns the school record (5-10). Sami Spenner took second in the triple jump on a tiebreaker after a jump of 39-6. Amanda Vorthman was second in the 3,000 meters with a time of 10:00.93, just 1.6 seconds behind winner Emily Koenig of Texas-Arlington.

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