Nebraska goes to the North Carolina Regional, in Chapel Hill, with 22 players from last season’s team, which went to the Oklahoma State Regional. A 23rd, pitcher Mason McConnaughey, has been lost for the season. “It speaks to the veteran presence in the clubhouse, and...
Do you believe in magic? Or more likely it was grit, not magic. But either way, the Nebraska baseball team won its third game in two days, its second against a nationally-ranked opponent, defeating second-seed and 13th-ranked UCLA 5-0 in the championship game of the...
Maybe you could hear the Bee Gees singing in the background, “Stayin’ Alive.” That’s what Nebraska did in the most unlikely of ways, defeating Michigan State 5-4 in 10 innings in the Huskers’ Big Ten Tournament opener at Omaha’s Charles Schwab Field Tuesday. Robby...
So it’s on to Omaha for Nebraska, as the eighth seed, following a fifth-consecutive Big Ten series win with a 14-2, eight-inning victory against Purdue in West Lafayette Saturday. The Huskers and Boilermakers split the first two games, Nebraska winning 11-9 Thursday,...
Will Bolt had no comment on the Big Ten Tournament next week in Omaha. “Well, I don’t really want to talk about the conference tournament right now because we’re not there,” he said Wednesday morning. “We still have a weekend (series) to go win ... so I’m not going to...
Here’s the pitch. Nebraska’s pitchers had a good weekend against Michigan at Haymarket Park, with good starts from Tucker Timmerman, Ty Horn and Jackson Brockett. And the bullpen mostly did its job. The Huskers used only four relievers: Luke Broderick pitched in all...
Welcome Tucker Timmerman to Nebraska’s weekend starting pitching rotation against Michigan. And not just the weekend, but the Friday-night opener at Haymarket Park. Appropriately. “He’s a dog, he’s a bulldog,” Jackson Brockett said of the sophomore right-hander. “You...
Larry the Cable Guy would say, “Git-R-Done.” And Nebraska baseball did. Coach Will Bolt would say, “Gritty beats pretty.” Which it did, and not just Sunday. “Oh man, tell me about it. That was not a lot ... very sweet about anything we did offensively this weekend,...
It’s more than one player, of course, but consider what Nebraska baseball senior outfielder Gabe Swansen has done in his last seven games: two grand slams, two doubles and 15 runs-batted-in. As you no doubt know, three of the RBIs came with two outs in the bottom of...
Nebraska baseball didn’t start off the weekend in College Park, Maryland, right, losing to Maryland 12-5 Friday night. But the Huskers finished with a 21-5 blowout in seven innings Sunday to win the series. They defeated Maryland 6-2 Saturday. “I think we have one of...
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