The Huskers Run Ruby To Jump Within a Win of the WCWS: NEBRASKA 8 – Oklahoma St 1
For a second straight appearance, Meylan lost her hold on the Huskers who are one win away from the WCWS.
“That’s kind of been one of our mantras this whole year, is don’t get ready, be ready. ” – Nebraska Head Coach Rhonda Revelle And, brother, the Huskers were ready for All-American Ruby Meylan today. Nebraska softball fans know the story.
Meylan had a dominant high school career at Omaha Skutt and then spent two years at the University of Washington before transferring to Oklahoma State in 2025. In four appearances against the Huskers she had only given up 3 runs (26 innings). On Friday, in Game 1 of the NCAA Lincoln Super Regional, the Huskers inflicted more damage than that in 3 innings.
Starting with the bottom of the first, which began on Thursday evening and didn’t end until late Friday afternoon thanks to an ESPN-ignored storm , the Huskers began Friday with Hannah Coor on first and one out. Hannah Camenzind then started things with a single down the left-field line. After Ava Kuszak went down on strikes, Jessie Farrell turned on a 1-0 Meylan pitch and drove it high, deep and out to left-center and Huskers found themselves with a quick 3-0 lead.
Jordy Frahm was on the mound for Nebraska, so confidence spiked. And with her working on a 20-inning scoreless streak which would last until she gave up a Karli Godwin solo shot in the top of the 6th inning, it was easy to understand why. She went the distance for the 16th time in 20 starts and earned her 20th win of the season scattering 5 hits while striking out 7.