Nebraska baseball team trounces No. 12 USC in 7 innings

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LINCOLN, Neb. (Nebraska Athletics) – Carson Jasa recorded his second complete-game begin and the Husker offense slugged three homers in the third inning, as Nebraska run-ruled No. 12 USC 12-2 in seven innings in entrance of a season-high crowd of 7,602 on Saturday afternoon at Hawks Field at Haymarket Park.

Saturday’s attendance of 7,602 ranks twenty fifth all-time in ballpark historical past and is the second-largest crowd in the Big Ten period, trailing a crowd of 7,650 in a doubleheader towards Michigan on May 29, 2021.

Nebraska (30-9, 14-3 Big Ten) scored 12 runs on 12 hits and one error, whereas USC (30-10, 13-7 Big Ten) tallied two runs on 5 hits and two errors.

Drew Grego completed 3-for-4 and a triple shy of the cycle with a double, a house run and 4 runs pushed in to tempo the offense. Dylan Carey was 3-for-4 with three runs scored and a house run, and Case Sanderson homered and drove in three runs on a 2-for-4 afternoon. Jett Buck doubled and scored thrice, and Mac Moyer, Joshua Overbeek and Trey Fikes tallied a success apiece.

Jasa was dominant on the mound, going the space in the seven-inning sport to enhance to 7-1. He allowed simply two runs, one earned, on 5 hits with seven strikeouts and solely two walks.

Nebraska wasted no time, sending eight batters to the plate and scoring 4 runs in the primary inning. Sanderson grounded out to attain Moyer, and Buck doubled house Carey earlier than Grego doubled to right-center to plate Buck. Overbeek added a run-scoring single by means of the correct aspect to cap a four-run first.

The Huskers poured it on in the third with three extra runs on three solo homers. Sanderson and Carey led off the inning with back-to-back solo blasts, and Grego drilled the primary pitch he noticed into the berm in left subject to present the Big Red a seven-run lead.

Nebraska added two extra in the fifth when Grego singled out to left scored Carey and Buck, who had every stolen bases to arrange the large hit, extending the result in 9-0.

USC plated its two runs behind three hits and an error in the highest of the seventh to make it a 10-2. A one-out solo homer to middle scored their first run of the afternoon, whereas an NU fielding error after a pair of hits allowed the Trojans to attain a second run in the inning.

The Big Red responded instantly with a pair of runs on the backside of the seventh to clinch the collection with 12-2 run-rule victory. Buck and Stokes reached on walks to place runners on first and second, establishing Fikes’ RBI single to left that introduced house Buck and allowed Stokes to attain on a fielding error.

Nebraska and No. 12 USC conclude the collection tomorrow afternoon at 12:02 pm at Hawks Field at Haymarket Park.

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