STILLWATER, Oklahoma \u2013\u00a0Survive and advance. Nebraska baseball\u2019s 2024 season will last at least one more day after the Huskers bested Niagara 7-5 in an elimination game Saturday afternoon. <\/p>\n
Nebraska shrugged off an early 4-0 deficit and outscored the Purple Eagles 7-1 the rest of the way thanks to two solo shots from Gabe Swansen<\/strong> and Case Sanderson\u2019s<\/strong> four RBIs. Will Bolt\u2019s<\/strong> Huskers have a 40-win season for the first time since 2014 and the 18th in program history.<\/p>\n For the third time in his last four starts, Mason McConnaughey<\/strong> recorded double-digit strikeouts. <\/p>\n Here\u2019s a quick rundown on how the Huskers got past Niagara at the Stillwater Regional. <\/p>\n Join HuskerOnline today and get your first month of a premium subscription for just $1!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n McConnaughey did not get off to a good start. <\/p>\n The opening five pitches of the bottom of the first resulted in a hit batter, a single to left and a three-run homer for Eric Rataczak<\/strong>, his 17th of the season. Niagara kept the pressure on in the second with a leadoff bloop double and a sacrifice fly that made it a 4-0 Purple Eagle advantage. <\/p>\n Dylan Carey<\/strong> became the first Husker leadoff batter to reach all weekend when he delivered a single to start the third. A Joshua Overbeek<\/strong> walk set things up for Sanderson who gave Nebraska a much-needed shot of energy with a three-run bomb into the Niagara bullpen in left. <\/p>\n Nebraska took the lead in the fifth, an inning that was jumpstarted by Overbeek\u2019s first triple of the year. Sanderson brought him in on a sacrifice fly and Swansen<\/strong> homered for the fifth time this postseason to put the Huskers in front 5-4. <\/p>\n That lead didn\u2019t last long. <\/p>\n Brady Desjardins<\/strong> went yard on the first pitch of the fifth to tie the game and break a streak of six consecutive retired by McConnaughey. Nebraska quickly countered in the form of a leadoff double from Tyler Stone<\/strong> in the sixth. Rhett Stokes<\/strong> put a bunt down the first-base side and Niagara right-hander Ryan Minckler<\/strong> airmailed the throw to first allowing Stone to score and moving Stokes to second. <\/p>\n The Huskers failed to do further damage against MAAC Reliver of the Year Zach Cameron<\/strong>, despite loading the bases. <\/p>\n Swansen lead off the seventh inning with another deep shot. He sent a 0-1 pitch 414 feet to the deepest part of the park and gave Nebraska a 7-5 cushion with his second bomb of the day. <\/p>\n Jalen Worthley<\/strong> did the rest. He relieved McConnaughey for the start of the seventh and gave the Huskers a 1-2-3 frame. The southpaw cut through the Niagara order and only allowed two hits en route to his fifth save. <\/p>\n Nebraska has extended its season one more day and must win two games on Sunday in order to push the Stillwater Regional to a seventh game on Monday. ESPN+<\/a> will carry both contests. The Huskers will face the loser of Saturday night\u2019s Oklahoma State-Florida game at 1:00 p.m. and would meet the winner of the same matchup at 6:00 p.m. should NU advance. <\/p>\n The post Nebraska baseball overcomes early blitz, eliminates Niagara with 7-5 win<\/a> appeared first on On3<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" STILLWATER, Oklahoma \u2013\u00a0Survive and advance. Nebraska baseball\u2019s 2024 season will last at least one more…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54253,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54222\/revisions\/54253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What\u2019s next for Nebraska?<\/h2>\n