Nebraska baseball survives late comeback 8-6 to sweep Penn State
Nebraska concluded its three-game series with Penn State on Sunday. Though the Nittany Lions almost came back, the Huskers earned the sweep.
Nebraska baseball (26-6, 11-1) concluded its three-game series with Penn State (8-21, 3-9) on Easter Sunday. Though the Nittany Lions almost completed a comeback, the Huskers earned the series sweep with an 8-6 win. The team's 26-6 record matches their best 32-game start since 2006, where they started 27-5.
Their 11-1 Big Ten record also marks their best conference start in program history, surpassing the previous best conference start of 10-1-1 set back in 2008. Penn State scored three runs in the top of the ninth to cut Nebraska's lead to 8-6. The Huskers, however, held on, despite not scoring since the third.
Nebraska posted five runs in the second and three in the third to go up 8-3. Nebraska tallied 13 hits for eight RBIs. Penn State totaled four hits for four RBIs.
The Nittany Lions' Michael Anderson picked up three RBIs after blasting two home runs on the day. Rhett Stokes and Drew Grego each struck a home run for Nebraska and combined for four hits and five RBIs. Stokes hit a three-run shot and Grego logged a two-run hit.