Wildcats Dominate Trojans 5-1, Setting New Stadium Records!

The snow was coming down harder by the inning at Rocky and Berenice Miller Park. The handful of fans who had braved the weather hunkered down, prepared to endure extra innings in the blistering cold. Until, with two outs and a full count, Logan de Groot shot a single through the infield, scoring Jake Yang to bury the No.

25 USC Trojans 2-1 and send the Wildcats into a frenzy. For the Wildcats, it’s their first home win and first in-conference win of the 2026 season. The weekend matchup got off to an ugly start for the ‘Cats, who dropped the first game of the series 15-1.

With downpours forecasted for Sunday, the Wildcats and Trojans played the last two games of the series as a Saturday double header, with the first pitch of the series finale coming less than an hour after the last out of game two. Coming off of a 2-0 loss in the second game, Northwestern looked to avoid the sweep with Matt Kouser getting the start. Kouser worked a scoreless first inning, picking off a runner at second, and getting some help from a diving grab from de Groot.

After providing the Wildcats’ lone run of the series on a solo homer the day before, Jack Lausch led off the Northwestern half of the first with a jam shot double that fell perfectly on the third base line in shallow left. Three batters later, Nick Barron sliced a two-out double down the line, plating Lausch for the game’s first run. Although Kouser went 4.