Steve Beideck

LINCOLN — The sting of a loss in the last week of the regular season helped Maisey McCarty and her Lincoln Southwest teammates win the biggest game of the season Monday night.

Here are the final rankings for 2025 Nebraska high school softball season by World-Herald correspondent Steve Beideck.

LINCOLN — A pair of seventh-inning walk-offs and a third game that was a 4-2 nailbiter provided a thrilling tripleheader to cap the 2025 season of high school softball.

Monday was supposed to be a big day for the softball community — players, coaches, fans and officials. The three high school state championships in Lincoln, the culmination of the season.

A trio of touchdowns in both the second and third quarters Friday led Gretna East to a 55-34 semifinal victory in the Class B football playoffs over cross-town rival Gretna.

4 min to read Lincoln Southwest had a plan to rotate a trio of sophomore pitchers to make a push to the postseason, but Maisey McCarty changed that.

The Nebraska high school softball All-Class, All-Metro Conference and All-Omaha area teams and honorable mention selections for the 2025 season.

It was a time of reflection while spinning it forward to current issues in college sports — and the current Husker teams — for former Nebraska basketball standouts Beau Reid and Alexis Markowski at Friday's Big Red Brunch.

STEVE BEIDECK Omaha World-Herald It was a time of reflection while spinning it forward to current issues in college sports — and the