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Nebraska Baseball Responds, Niagara Falls in Stillwater Regional

The Huskers fell behind early but blasted a trio of home runs to stay alive in the Stillwater Regional and eliminate Niagara. Nebraska will next play on Sunday against the loser of Oklahoma State and Florida.

Kaleb Henry

Nebraska Athletics

Survive and advance.

Nebraska baseball handled an early deficit to come back and eliminate Niagara 7-5 Saturday afternoon at the Stillwater Regional. The Huskers improve to 40-21 and stay alive in the postseason, while the Purple Eagles see their season come to a close at 46-13.

Niagara got on the board first with a three run home run in the first inning. That was the first of five homers in the game. The Purple Eagles tallied another run in the second.

NU responded with a Case Sanderson homer in the third, tallying a trio of runs. In the fifth inning, Sanderson notched a sacrifice fly before a Gabe Swansen home run gave the Big Red the lead.

Trailing for the first time in the game, Niagara needed just a single pitch to tie things up as another ball cleared the fence.

Nebraska took the lead for good with a run in the sixth inning on a throwing error after Rhett Stokes laid down a sacrifice bunt. Swanson added some insurance in the seventh with another home run.

Mason McConnaughey earned the win, going 6.0 innings while allowing five runs, all of the earned. He struck out 10 in the game. Jaylen Worthley got the save for this 3.0 shutout innings.

Nebraska will next play on Sunday at 1 p.m. CDT. The Huskers will face the loser of Saturday evening's game between Oklahoma State and Florida. In order to win the regional, NU will need to win twice on Sunday as well as a winner-take-all Monday contest.

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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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