HUSKER SOFTBALL Recap – Revelle Wins Her 1200th in Completing the Sweep: #4 NEBRASKA 11 – Rutgers 5

”Rutgers, they just keep swinging and they just keep scoring and so they fight. And one of the things I told anybody about them is they’re gonna use every last one of their shots. – Nebraska Coach Rhonda Revelle.

This could have been the quote after today’s game, an 11-5 Husker victory which didn’t begin to feel secure until 1) the Husker bats came alive for 3 runs in the bottom of the 5th to extend an 8-5 lead which was fueled by a 7-run 1st inning explosion, but which had gotten a little quiet as Rutgers kept inching back into the game, and 2) Jordy Frahm came in and put an emphatic stop to the Scarlet Knights uprising with 3 scoreless innings allowing zero hits. In fact, she threw three perfect frames with 6 strikeouts to go with her 3-for-4, 2 triple performance at the plate. Take a wild guess who today’s Corn Nation MVP is.

And in another matter of no minor importance, Coach Revelle, with the weekend’s final victory, won her 1200th game as a coach. After earning the series win yesterday, the Huskers came into today looking to claim the series sweep as well. They have swept all their B1G series but one so far this season and that one was against then #7 UCLA just last weekend.

Winning two of three was fine, though, as it still bumped them in the polls. On Saturday, the Huskers played a doubleheader because of some rain which had moved through the area and cold, windy temps on Friday night. The first game ended how everyone expected it to, with a run-rule 8-0 win in 5 innings.