Nebraska Baseball Beats Northwestern in Extras for Weekend Sweep

8-7 victory in Evanston gives Huskers their 20th win of 2024

Kaleb Henry | Mar 31, 2024

Tyler Stone had three hits Sunday for the Huskers. /

The winning streak continues for Nebraska baseball.

The Huskers topped Northwestern 8-7 in 10 innings Sunday. The win is the 10th in a row for Nebraska and gives the Big Red its first sweep of an opening conference series since 2019

Nebraska improves to 20-5 on the year while Northwestern falls to 10-15.

The Huskers posted five runs in the fifth inning to take a 6-2 lead, but the Wildcats answered with a pair of runs in the sixth and three more in the eighth. NU plated a run in the top of the ninth inning to send the game into extras.

In the 10th inning, Cole Evans hit a sacrifice fly to center field that scored Clay Bradford. Husker reliever Kyle Perry then put down the Wildcats in order to earn the win.

Evans had two hits on the day, trailing only the 3-for-4 performance from Tyler Stone.

Perry, in his 2.1 innings of relief duty, retired all seven batters he faced and struck out three. Mason McConnaughey made his first weekend start of the season and allowed four runs on five hits in 5.2 innings, although he retired 15 consecutive batters between pair of two-run homers he surrendered.

Nebraska stays on the road Tuesday to face in-state rival Creighton at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha.

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Published Mar 31, 2024

KALEB HENRY

Kaleb Henry is an award-winning sports reporter, covering collegiate athletics since 2014 via radio, podcasting, and digital journalism. His experience with Big Ten Conference teams goes back more than a decade, including time covering programs such as the Nebraska Cornhuskers, Oregon Ducks, and USC Trojans. He has contributed to Sports Illustrated since 2021. Kaleb has won multiple awards for his sports coverage from the Nebraska Broadcasters Association and Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association. Prior to working in sports journalism, Kaleb was a Division I athlete on the Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville Track and Field team where he discussed NCAA legislation as SIUE's representative to the Ohio Valley Conference Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.