Nebraska Baseball Weekend Preview: Oregon

Series Preview #19 Nebraska Cornhuskers (26-7, 11-1 B1G) at #21 Oregon Ducks (24-9, 8-4 B1G) Location: PK Park, Eugene, OR Dates: April 10-12th Times (all CDT): Friday @ 5pm **Time Change! ** , Saturday @ 4pm, Sunday @ 2pm Coaches: Will Bolt (7th season, 196-133-1) & Mark Wasikowski (7th season, 317-197) TV/Stream: All games on B1G+ Radio: All Nebraska games on Huskers Radio Network, Huskers. com , Huskers App After a tough first 3 weeks of a non-conference schedule, Nebraska has rolled through the easier part of its schedule.

Prior to the mid-week game against an impressive Kansas team, only a single game against a hot veteran pitcher stopping them from winning 22 in a row. In baseball, it doesn’t matter what level you are playing, that streak is still impressive (just ask the Back to Back Big Ten Champion teams that struggled in the midweek against South Dakota State and Omaha). Now the team gets to find out if the momentum will carry them against the two best teams remaining on its weekend schedule and secure a top 4 seed AND potentially a home regional.

Oregon rolled through the early part of its schedule, with only a slip up against an average UC Irvine team, and a loss in the baseball version of the Civil War to Oregon State. Since a trip to UC Santa Barbara, the offense which had been mashing the ball (it still leads the Big Ten in home runs and total bases) has stalled a bit. They’ve averaged just 3 runs per game in their last 8 games, which included two mid week losses to Portland sandwiched around the team’s first weekend series loss at Michigan.

It’s hard to imagine a whole team has gone cold for an extended period of time. Then again, Nebraska fans only have to look to last season (sorry for the PTSD) to see how a good offensive team can just go ice cold for a couple stretches. Is the past couple weeks just a blip for the Ducks and they just need some home cooking to regain their power?