EMPORIA, Kan. -- Beth Haley tossed a four-hitter and Lindsey Slocum broke up a no-hitter with a fifth-inning RBI double to give the University of Nebraska at Omaha a 1-0 win over Minnesota State, Mankato in the first round of the NCAA Division II North Central Regional Thursday.

UNO, 43-11, will now play Emporia-State, a 5-3 winner over Washburn, Friday afternoon at 3 in the second round.

Haley, the North Central Conference freshman of the year, retired the first 14 batters in order before MSU's Mallory Michel and Natalie Spicer stroked consecutive singles with two outs in the fifth. She also gave up singles in the sixth and seventh innings, but walked none and fanned three to raise her record to 20-6.

MSU pitcher Meagan Teal struck out 12, including a stretch when she fanned six straight and 9 of 10. But UNO took advantage of her third walk of the game, to lead-off batter Treightin Yates in the fifth, to score. Alli Hukill pinch-ran for Yates and was sacrificed to second by Chelsea Koch. Slocum then went the opposite way with the first pitch and sent it into the left field corner.

"We told the players that they weren't being aggressive enough at the plate," UNO head coach Jeanne Scarpello said. "Teal had been going outside with her first pitch and Lindsey just went after it. It was good hitting."

UNO had to snuff a Minnesota State rally in the seventh with some good fielding. Libbie Reichling led off with a sharp single to left center. Abby Wagner then laid down a bunt in front of the plate that third baseman Leslie Svoboda scooped up and fired to second for the force.

"We had hoped that she would bunt to third and Leslie has the experience and the arm strength to make that play," Scarpello said.

Haley got Michel to foul out to the catcher and retired Spicer on a fly ball to right to end the threat and the game.

The win was the fourth in as many meetings with Minnesota State this year and the second in a row. UNO defeated MSU, 5-0, in Sunday's NCC tournament final.

In other first-round games Thursday, Winona State defeated Central Missouri, 2-1, and Southwest Minnesota State outlasted Northwest Missouri State, 3-2, in eight innings.

Minnesota State........000 000 0 -- 0 4 0
Nebraska-Omaha....000 010 x -- 1 1 0
WP - Beth Haley, 20-6
LP - Meagan Teal, 19-6
2b - UNO, Lindsey Slocum