HUSKERS SOFTBALL Recap – The Ladies Dispatch the Badgers in Game 1: #5 NEBRASKA 5 – Wisconsin 0
Alexis Jensen did not need any relief from Jordy Frahm on this cool but clear Friday night in Madison, however it wasn’t because it didn’t get a little weirdly difficult through no fault of her own. Look, don’t get me wrong for one second – Lex has been the piece of the puzzle which was missing in the 2025 season which ended one step short of the goal in Knoxville last May. Is she the boost over that final step?
I’ll let that hang for now. In a few of her last outings, she had struggled a little bit late in games which prompted Coach Rhonda Revelle to bring on Jordy Frahm to shut the door – and in so doing, Jordy broke Revelle’s 40-year-plus single-season Huskers save record which now sits at 9 and counting. So for this reason, I was really pulling for Jensen to finish this one off with no help from All-Americans on staff and close the door in Cheese World.
She did. But, as I said, not without a li’l weirdness. Jensen came into the bottom of the 7th carrying a 2-hit shutout and having retired 12 straight hitters.
On a night where the Husker bats did what they had to without ever really taking off, Jensen let a few runners on early before clamping down on those stinking Badgers. And the oddness began in the final frame with the leadoff. After a 2-2 pitch was fouled off, Jensen about bounced a pitch in front of the plate which Danielle Lucey swung at and didn’t come within two feet of.
Jesse Farrell went to throw to first, Lucey came back to the plate, Farrell tagged her. From what I assumed was the home plate ump channeling his best C. B.