Omaha crushed Wayzata 11-0 on Wednesday on the first day of the American Legion Central Plains Regional in Bismarck, N.D. The Nebraska team, now 54-3, scored three runs in the first, four in the fourth and three in the seventh while Wayzata had only two hits.

Forest Lake lost in a similar fashion in Bismarck, falling 10-0 to Rapid City, S.D., while getting four hits. Riley McSherry, Rapid City's leadoff hitter, was 3-for-3 and scored five runs.

Both Minnesota teams drop to the losers' bracket on Thursday.

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• Minnesota State Mankato was selected by the league football coaches as the overall and South Division preseason favorite in the NSIC. The Mavericks received 11 of 16 first-place votes and amassed 216 points, 18 points ahead of Augustana (198) and 22 points ahead of Minnesota Duluth (194), the coaches' top choice in the North Division.

• Alex Uloth, the winner of the Minnesota State Amateur Championship this summer, will transfer from Concordia (St. Paul) to the Gophers and join the men's golf team as a junior. He is a Burnsville native and ranks ninth for the Golden Bears in career scoring average.

• Three players with area ties all missed the second round cut at the U.S. Women's Amateur Championship in Springfield, Pa. Gophers junior Heather Ciskowski of Barrington, Ill., finished with a 7-over 149, missing the cut by two shots. Casey Danielson of Osceola, Wis., shot a 150 and Sarah Burnham of Maple Grove a 151.

• The Heritage Links boys team of Tanner Sperling, Matt Mills, Noah Rasinski and William Moore won the MGA junior team championship at Minnewaska Golf Club in Glenwood, Minn., by one shot over the Detroit Country Club. The TPC Twin Cities team of Alexa Filipiak, Ally Rogers and Erica Olson combined to win the girls team title by 10 shots.