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Nebraska Baseball Gets Swept at UCLA

The Huskers are off to one of their worst starts in conference play in decades.
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Nebraska pitcher Drew Christo delivers at UCLA on March 15, 2025.
Nebraska pitcher Drew Christo delivers at UCLA on March 15, 2025. | Nebraska Athletics

Through two weekends of conference play, Nebraska baseball is officially struggling.

Nebraska fell to UCLA Sunday afternoon at Jackie Robinson Stadium in Los Angeles, 5-3. The Bruins improve to 16-4 on the year and 5-1 in the Big Ten Conference while the Huskers fall to 7-11 overall and 1-5 in the league.

The 1-5 start in the league is the worst start since beginning 0-8 in 1997, the first year of the Big 12 Conference. NU went 7-23 in the conference that season and 27-35 overall.

Nebraska got out to a 3-0 lead early. The Huskers scored on a two-RBI double from Dylan Carey in the second inning before adding a sacrifice fly from Tyler Stone in the third.

Nebraska shortstop Dylan Carey celebrates a double against UCLA on March 16, 2025.
Nebraska shortstop Dylan Carey celebrates a double against UCLA on March 16, 2025. | Nebraska Athletics

UCLA answered in the middle innings, beginning with a solo home run in the fourth. Two more runs were added in each of the fifth and sixth innings as Nebraska only got one guy to second base after the third inning.

The Huskers notched seven hits on the day, with Carey going 2-for-4.

Nebraska continues the West Coast road trip with a pair of midweek games against Pepperdine. First pitch is set for 5 p.m. CDT on both Tuesday and Wednesday, with the games streaming on ESPN+.

The road trip continues next weekend at USC.

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Kaleb Henry
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. 

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