Loebarth Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 Christo.. now that's a pleasant surprise. Quote Link to comment
Xmas32 Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 Good early season test for Christo. Grand Canyon is off to a hot start. Quote Link to comment
Loebarth Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 @Xmas32 - GCU might be the best team we face this year. They don't lose at home very often and if Nebraska's arms aren't top notch GCU will put up huge numbers. Very surprising that Bolt and company schedule a 4 game series against GCU. Splitting this series is a win imo. 1 Quote Link to comment
Xmas32 Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 Agreed, GCU will be a tough out. This would be a really fun series to attend because GCU's ballpark is really top notch. A split would be pretty good and if they can steal tonight's game with Cristo going GCU's ace that would be huge. Quote Link to comment
HANC Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 2 hours ago, Xmas32 said: Agreed, GCU will be a tough out. This would be a really fun series to attend because GCU's ballpark is really top notch. A split would be pretty good and if they can steal tonight's game with Cristo going GCU's ace that would be huge. Has GCU announced their rotation, I haven’t seen it? I was assuming that they would throw their ace tomorrow to keep the true Friday-Friday rotation. We kept ours the same, just added Christo to the front end. Quote Link to comment
Xmas32 Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 30 minutes ago, HANC said: Has GCU announced their rotation, I haven’t seen it? I was assuming that they would throw their ace tomorrow to keep the true Friday-Friday rotation. We kept ours the same, just added Christo to the front end. I took this from Evan Bland's OWH article on the series: Nebraska at Grand Canyon Where: Brazell Field at GCU Ballpark, Phoenix, Arizona Radio: Huskers Radio Network Video stream: ESPN+ 7 p.m. Thursday: RHP Drew Christo (0-0, 9.00 ERA) vs. RHP Daniel Avitia (1-0, 1.50) 7 p.m. Friday: RHP Brett Sears (0-0, 1.69) vs. RHP Carter Young (1-0, 1.80) 7 p.m. Saturday: LHP Will Walsh (0-0, 4.76) vs. RHP Connor Mattison (3.00) 1 p.m. Sunday: LHP Caleb Clark (0-0, 3.38) vs. RHP Hunter Watkins (0-0, 6.00) https://omaha.com/sports/huskers/baseball/trip-to-undefeated-balanced-grand-canyon-next-challenge-up-for-nebraska-baseball/article_1d92d9db-b6b9-5c54-84eb-c8421c087b28.html 1 Quote Link to comment
Xmas32 Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 Also appears to be confirmed on GCU's baseball page: https://gculopes.com/news/2024/2/21/baseball-gcu-welcomes-nebraska-for-4-game-set.aspx Quote Link to comment
Loebarth Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 Here's the weekend schedule from Huskers.com 1 Quote Link to comment
Loebarth Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 It would be really exciting for me if Nebraska could get into a 4 year cycle of playing the same 2 "High Level/Caliber" out of conference opponents. (ex: Home/Home with GCU this year and next 2024/2025. In 2026/27 do a Home/Home series with a team like Charlette (or other historically strong G5) and rotate these opponents every two years. Selfish reason I'd like to see this is regional play. These two opponents have both hosted regionals in the past 4 years. If Nebraska wants to solidify it's hosting position then the Huskers need to play a schedule where they are positioning favorably with the ncaa regionals committee. Yes, arguably, with the addition of USC/UCLA/Washington/Oregon that is probably enough competition however... if the Huskers play a home/home with a high end G5 team and win the series... makes it hard for the committee to grant the host regional to the loser if both teams are in consideration. (at least I imagine it so) Quote Link to comment
HANC Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 1 hour ago, Xmas32 said: I took this from Evan Bland's OWH article on the series: Nebraska at Grand Canyon Where: Brazell Field at GCU Ballpark, Phoenix, Arizona Radio: Huskers Radio Network Video stream: ESPN+ 7 p.m. Thursday: RHP Drew Christo (0-0, 9.00 ERA) vs. RHP Daniel Avitia (1-0, 1.50) 7 p.m. Friday: RHP Brett Sears (0-0, 1.69) vs. RHP Carter Young (1-0, 1.80) 7 p.m. Saturday: LHP Will Walsh (0-0, 4.76) vs. RHP Connor Mattison (3.00) 1 p.m. Sunday: LHP Caleb Clark (0-0, 3.38) vs. RHP Hunter Watkins (0-0, 6.00) https://omaha.com/sports/huskers/baseball/trip-to-undefeated-balanced-grand-canyon-next-challenge-up-for-nebraska-baseball/article_1d92d9db-b6b9-5c54-84eb-c8421c087b28.html Awesome, thank you 2 Quote Link to comment
HANC Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 Huskers on the board first. 1-0 in top of 4, only 1 out with runner on 2nd 1 Quote Link to comment
HANC Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 Tyler Stone with a 2 run BOMB to give GBR a 3-0 lead 1 1 Quote Link to comment
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