Things We Missed: Three American professional volleyball leagues?

Boy, Monday was a day, huh? A national holiday, the presidential inauguration, college football national championship game, my first day back from a short vacation some just call it a weekend.

(Truthfully, I was out of town Thursday and Friday).

There's a lot for our nation to process on this Tuesday.

Can you believe that one play during that one drive in that one quarter which was crucial to that team in (insert gold or silver here) helmets hoisting the College Football Playoff championship trophy? Yeah, me either.

Congrats to that team! Apologies if I am coming off insincere.

The college football season dragged on way too long.

I nearly forgot the championship was on Monday.

Also, while I was out, we're launching a third professional volleyball league next January in the United States? And this one is backed by ...

USA Volleyball? The governing body that should have been at the forefront three years ago in bringing a pro volleyball league here? Several of my friends in the volleyball world, including players in both the second-year Professional Volleyball Federation and the fledgling League One Volleyball whom I grew up with in Colorado, clowned the announcement.

What are we doing? The Omaha Supernovas, who won the first PVF championship last May, announced Thursday they were exiting the league to be a flagship franchise in the new Major League Volleyball venture.

Volleyball, and the appetite for it, is growing rapidly.

We know that with the record viewership and attendance numbers, not just in Nebraska the so-called volleyball state but nationwide.

But three leagues is two many.

Can we apply the old saying about quarterbacks to this predicament? If you have three volleyball leagues, you don't have one.

Word of advice: don't become professional golf.

Now onto more Things We Missed.

An area top 10 As they stand, their records might not be that impressive.

Doniphan-Trumbull and Adams Central have a combined 16 wins and 10 losses at this point in the season.

But, if there were a Tribland top 10, like in the older days of this paper when more schools were of comparable size, there's no doubt the two programs would be in those rankings.

((Holdrege would be the clear boys No.

1, if you ask me).

The Cardinals and Patriots played a tight one this weekend.

The trio of Jack Poppe (17 points), Parker Volk (14) and Tycen Bennett (12) provided enough in a 56-48 D-T win.

AC has lost five of its last six two by one point, another by just two.

Minden's 'twins' As much as they were the same on the volleyball court, Minden's Myla Emery and Mattie Kamery, who call each other "twin," mimicked each other on the hardwood Saturday.

The duo each scored 26 points for the Class C-1 No.

3 Whippets in a rout of McCook.

Emery added 10 rebounds, while Kamery had eight rebounds, five assists and four steals.

Fish leads HHS girls Abbey Fish broke two meet records and the Hastings girls swim team won the Lincoln High invite Saturday by 7 12 points.

The Tigers needed to finish in front of Fremont in the final event, 400-yard freestyle relay, and they did.

HHS (Brooke Baker, Jaden Ochsner, Kenna Pfeifer and Fish) placed second in 3:56.80, while Fremont was fifth in the race.

Fish's records came in the 50 and 100 freestyles, where she swam times of 24.47 and 53.00 seconds, respectively.

SNC final preview? Could we have seen a preview for the Southern Nebraska Girls basketball tournament final this weekend? Milford (12-1), ranked second in C-1, defeated Thayer Central 59-47.

The Eagles built a 19-8 lead in the first quarter, which the Titans (9-3) never dug out of.

Paige Tietjen led TC with 19 points, Leah Havel had 12 and Olivia Wiedel nine.

The Titans already own an 11-point win over D-1 No.

3 Superior, which appears to be the other primary challenger in two weeks for the league crown.

Shelton invite With only one individual champion, the Minden girls won Saturday's Shelton invite.

The lone Whippet to climb the podium was Maliyah Melroy at 190 pounds.

Many of Minden's top wrestlers did not compete.

Red Cloud/Blue Hill's boys were second in the field.

Carter Auten, at 138 pounds, took home individual gold.

Other Triblanders winning titles included Josh Russell (Alma, 106); Dominick Larraga (Shelton, 157); Griffin Bergen (Sutton, 175); Jeremy Felix (Alma, 190); Riley Cordes (Kenesaw, 135); and Emily Wiehn (Shelton, 140).

Boeve's prospects MLB.com on Monday named Hastings native Mike Boeve a top-10 third base prospect for the 2025 season.

Boeve, who was picked in the second round of the 2023 MLB draft by the Milwaukee Brewers and signed for $1.25 million, has 107 minor league games under his belt, spending most of last year in Double-A with the Biloxi Shuckers.

He was labeled as the "highest riser" and ranked 10th at the third-base position by the website: "Boeve ranked No.

15 in Milwaukee's top 30 last year as questions lingered over his power.

Those remain, but the Brewers corner infielder carried his incredible bat-to-ball skills over to Double-A, where he batted .306 with an .821 OPS in 66 games in the pitcher-friendly Southern League.

That solidified the belief that he could be a future plus hitter in the Majors.".

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