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Nebraska Baseball Avenges Loss to Ohio State in Elimination Game

Gabe Swansen leads a Big Red blitzkrieg at the plate with four hits, including a homer. The Huskers eliminate Ohio State to advance to Saturday's semifinal against Indiana.

Kaleb Henry

Rhett Stokes hits a double to lead off the seventh inning.
Rhett Stokes hits a double to lead off the seventh inning. / Amarillo Mullen

From a run-rule loss to domination.

Nebraska baseball hammered Ohio State 12-5 in an elimination game of the Big Ten Conference Tournament on Friday afternoon. The Huskers advance to the semifinals Saturday at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha.

NU improves to 36-20 while Ohio State ends its season at 29-26, three days after the Buckeyes hammered the Huskers 15-2 in the teams' tournament opener.

The Gabe Swansen show kicked things off Friday for the Huskers, blasting a three-run home run in the first inning. Nebraska added runs in six of its eight innings at the plate, including three runs in each of the seventh and eighth innings.

Ohio State threatened multiple times but only managed to scratch across one run in each of the third, fourth and fifth innings before tacking on two more in the final frame.

Swansen finished with a 4-for-6 day, tallying six RBIs. The Huskers notched 13 hits in the contest.

Nebraska will face Indiana at 9 a.m. CDT Saturday. If the Huskers win, a game would then be played at 5 p.m. CDT, with the winner advancing to Sunday's Big Ten Tournament championship game.

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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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