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Huskers take two of three at Texas

The Nebraska baseball team had an outstanding weekend, taking two of three from Texas to assume first place in the Big 12 Conference.

The Huskers spotted Texas four runs on Friday, then came back for a 14-4 win to take the opener. They rode the pitching of Thad Weber on Saturday, as the Friend, Neb., native tossed a two-hit shutout in a 2-0 win. Texas was able to salvage the final game of the series on Sunday, taking advantage of four Nebraska errors to take a 12-3 win.

In Friday's game, Texas jumped on staff ace Johnny Dorn for four early runs in the first three innings, but Nebraska exploded for four runs in the fifth to take the lead for good. Ben Kline had the key hit in the rally, as his two-run homer to left center gave Nebraska the lead for good. Jake Opitz added a homer in the sixth and Mitch Abeita added a two-run double to highlight the explosion.

On Saturday, Weber was simply unstoppable. He retired 14 of the last 15 batters he faced in tossing his first career complete game, improving his record to 5-0 and lowering his earned-run average to 1.49. Texas had runners in scoring position in each of the first three innings, but Weber got out of trouble and kept Texas from threatening. Mitch Abeita and Craig Corriston each had run-scoring singles in the sixth to break the tie and lead Nebraska to the win.

Texas won the getaway game on Sunday as the Husker defense stumbled through four errors. Nebraska led early, but Texas got three in the bottom of the first and never trailed after that. Corriston was 2-for-4 and Cody Neer hit his first home run of the year in the losing effort.

The Huskers are 21-4-1 overall and 7-1-1 in Big 12 Conference play, 1 1/2 games ahead of Texas A&M in the conference standings. The Huskers play Creighton at Rosenblatt Stadium on Tuesday night, then host Texas Tech in a three-game series this weekend at Haymarket Park.

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Huskers playing well midway though the season

With the completion of this weekend's Big 12 Conference series at Texas, the Huskers will be halfway through what has been a very successful 2008 campaign.

After losing two of their first three games in a season-opening series at Stanford, the Huskers have been on fire. They have won 18 of 20 games and have a tie with Oklahoma. They have swept every series except two, splitting a two-game home set with Arkansas and getting two wins and a tie against the Sooners.

The Huskers are getting solid efforts all around, led by Nick Sullivan's .380 batting average. He is one of three players hitting over .350 in the team's first 23 games, joined by Bryce Nimmo (.364) and Mitch Abeita (.354). Abeita leads the team in home runs with six and is second with 19 RBI's, trailing Jake Opitz (23).

On the mound, the Huskers have pitched very well and are limiting opponents to less than four runs an outing. The team has a combined earned-run average of 2.68, over three runs less than their opponents.

The Huskers four main starters are a combined 11-1 on the year, led by Johnny Dorn (2-0, 1.57) and Aaron Pribanic (2-0, 1.44). Dan Jennings is 3-0 with a 2.20 ERA and Thad Weber is also solid with four wins in five decisions. Coming off the bench, the Huskers are getting good efforts from Erik Anderson (3 saves) and Mike Nesseth (2 saves) and are showing some surprising depth at the midway point of the year.

The Huskers do face some interesting challenges in the next month and a half, including tough conference road trips to Oklahoma State, Baylor and Missouri. They will host NCAA tournament teams Wichita State, Creighton and Louisiana-Lafayette and face two games with the in-state rival Bluejays at Rosenblatt Stadium and a non-conference road tilt at Iowa.

The Huskers have 16 home games at Haymarket Park left on the schedule, starting with next weekend's series with Texas Tech. You can get your Husker baseball tickets now at Ticket Express -- where no Husker home game is ever sold out.

Baseball team returns home next weekend

The Husker baseball team is on the road this weekend for a key Big 12 Conference showdown with Texas, part of a four-game road jaunt before Nebraska returns home for another Big 12 baseball series.

The Huskers and Longhorns are battling Missouri for supremacy in the conference early in the 2008 season, so this weekend's series will be big for the Huskers, who have won 18 of their last 20 games since losing a season-opening series at Stanford.

On Tuesday, April 1, the Huskers will play the first of their annual three-game matchup with in-state rival Creighton at Rosenblatt Stadium. After that, the Huskers return home to Haymarket Park to take on a young Texas Tech team in a three-game series. Games will be played Friday evening and Saturday and Sunday afternoon.

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Huskers finish off season sweep of Northern Colorado

Nebraska finished off a six-game season sweep of Northern Colorado Wednesday with a 9-4 win over the Bears at Haymarket Park.

The Huskers fell behind early as the Bears jumped out to a 2-0 advantage. But as they have done many times in this young season, the Huskers answered the challenge by tying the game with a pair of runs in the bottom of the second, then taking control with five runs in the third.

In the eighth, Northern Colorado pushed a run across to cut the deficit to 7-3, but Nebraska answered again in the bottom of the inning as Jake Opitz plated two runs with a single up the middle against a drawn-in infield to account for the final Husker runs of the game.

The 19-3-1 Huskers go on the road this weekend for a key Big 12 Conference series at Texas. They return home next weekend for a three-game series with Texas Tech. You can get your Nebraska baseball tickets at Ticket Express -- where no Husker home game is ever sold out.

Huskers shut out Northern Colorado

The Nebraska baseball team made easy work of Northern Colorado, beating the Bears for the fifth time in as many tries with a 10-0 shutout Tuesday at Haymarket Park.

Cody Neer and Bryce Nimmo both came up with big hits to spark a six-run third inning for the 18-3-1 Huskers, giving starting pitcher Dan Jennings plenty of cushion to work with. The hurler threw six shutout innings and allowed three hits while striking out six. He has given up just one run in his last 16 innings on the mound.

The Huskers blew things open in the third as each of the first seven batters reached safely. Jake Opitz had an RBI double and Nimmo added a two-run double to highlight the rally.

The Huskers close out their two-game set with the Bears Wednesday afternoon at 1:35 p.m., before hitting the road for a key Big 12 weekend series at Texas.

Huskers host Northern Colorado before road trip

Nebraska's baseball team is back in action this week with a two-game home stand against Northern Colorado.

The Huskers swept the Bears in a four-game set earlier this month, but Northern Colorado does come back to town on something of an upbeat note. The Bears handed top-ranked Arizona State its first loss of the year over the weekend, and are playing an improved game since their four-game sweep at the hands of the Huskers March 7-9.

The two teams will meet for afternoon games Tuesday and Wednesday. The Huskers will go on the road this weekend for a key conference series at Texas, then plays Creighton on Tuesday, April 1 at Rosenblatt Stadium before coming home next weekend to face Texas Tech.

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Two wins and a tie for NU vs. Sooners

The Nebraska baseball team is still unbeaten in Big 12 play, but there will be a small blemish on their record to date.

Because of travel commitments, coaches from Nebraska and Oklahoma agreed to not start an inning after 4:30 p.m. as part of Sunday's finale. It looked as if the Huskers would get things done in plenty of time to enjoy a series sweep, but Oklahoma rallied for five runs back in the ninth and the game was tied at 8-8 after 10 innings when the time limit came into play, leaving the Husker baseball team to settle for two wins and a tie against the Sooners in their weekend series.

On Friday, the 22nd-ranked Huskers came from behind to beat the Sooners 4-2. They rallied for the winning runs with two out, as Nick Sullivan singled and came home on Craig Corriston's two-run blast to left to give the Huskers the win.

Johnny Dorn pitched well and gave up two runs on nine hits in seven-plus innings of work. Zach Herr pitched shutout relief to pick up his first win of the year.

On Saturday, the Huskers won another close one, taking a 4-3 decision. Thad Weber threw seven shutout innings and got some great help defensively as the Huskers turned three double plays. Sullivan and Jake Opitz each drove in a pair of runs to pace the offense.

In Sunday's deadlock, the Huskers were up 6-1 in the ninth before Oklahoma rallied. Aaron Baker hit a three-run homer to cap Oklahoma's comeback, giving them an 8-6 lead going to the bottom of the ninth. Nebraska rallied, though, as Mitch Abeita hit his sixth homer of the year and Dan Johnston tied the game with a sacrifice fly, scoring Sullivan with the tying run.

The Huskers 17-3-1 overall and 5-0-1 in the conference, have another non-conference matchup with Northern Colorado, as the Bears come to Haymarket Park for a two-game set Tuesday and Wednesday. The Bears are riding high after beating top-ranked and previously-undefeated Arizona State, and should be coming in with a little more confidence than they did when Nebraska swept a four-game series from them earlier this month.

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Huskers split with Arkansas, host Oklahoma

Nebraska's baseball team had a homecoming of sorts earlier this week, as former coach Dave Van Horn brought his Arkansas Razorbacks to town for a two-game set.

On Tuesday, the Huskers took advantage of some Razorback mistakes to post a 6-1 win on Tuesday, but the visitors turned the tables the following day, breaking open a tie game with a six-run eighth inning to take a 9-4 decision.

The loss Wednesday snapped Nebraska's 14-game winning streak and was their first loss at home. They opened the season losing two of three at Stanford, but had won 11 straight at home and 14 overall before Wednesday's loss.

The Huskers will try to get back on the winning track this weekend, hosting Oklahoma in a key Big 12 series at Haymarket Park.

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Nebraska to host first-round NIT game

Nebraska didn't make it to the NCAA touranment, but they will be playing in a national postseason tournament.

The 19-12 Huskers will host a first-round matchup in the National Inviation Tournament and will face Charlotte in a Wednesday matchup at 7 p.m. at the Devaney Sports Center.

Nebraska is looking for its first 20-win season since 1999, and after a solid effort to close the season they look to have a good shot at reaching that plateau for the first time under coach Doc Sadler.

The winner of the Nebraska-Charlotte game will advance to the second round against either Mississippi or UC-Santa Barbara. The tournament concludes with the championship game at New York's Madison Square Garden on April 3.

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Huskers sweep Kansas State, win streak at 13

The Nebraska baseball team completed its third straight series sweep over the weekend, getting a Dan Johnston two-run single in the 10th to beat Kansas State 5-3 Sunday afternoon.

Coupled with an 11-4 win Saturday and a 2-1 win Friday, the Huskers swept the Wildcats in the Big 12 opener for both teams, running 14-2 Nebraska's win streak to 13 games.

It was an exciting finale that saw the Huskers bounce back from a 3-2 deficit in the ninth to force extra innings, then win it on a two-out single by Johnston to get the win.

David Stewart got the rally started in the ninth with a double, then later scored on a sacirifce fly by D.J. Belfonte to tie the game and send it into extra innings.

Jake Opitz singled to start the 10th and moved to second on a sacrifice. After a walk to Bryce Nimmo and a stolen base, Johnston came through with the clutch hit and the defense shut down the Wildcats in the bottom of the 10th to seal the win.

The Huskers brought out the big sticks on Saturday, pounding the Wildcats for 16 hits. Craig Corriston was 4-for-5 with two RBI's and Opitz went 3-for-4 with a homer and three RBI's to lead the Husker hit parade.

On Friday, Corriston hit a sacrifice fly to break a 1-1 tie in the ninth and give Nebraska the win. Johnny Dorn pitched well in a starting role and got relief from Zach Herr and Erik Anderson, who picked up the win.

Next action for the Huskers is a two-game set with Arkansas, coached by former Nebraska baseball coach Dave Van Horn. Start time for games Tuesday and Wednesday are at 1:05 p.m. at Haymarket Park, and you can pick yours up now at Ticket Express -- where no Husker home game is ever sold out.