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Eric the Red

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Huskers Host Northern Colorado

Following a series win over Kansas, the No. 3-ranked Nebraska baseball team concludes its homestand this week with a pair of mid-week contests against Northern Colorado on Tuesday and Wednesday. The Huskers and Bears will open up Tuesday at 6:35 p.m. in the first night game of the season at Hawks Field, with an afternoon matinee set for 1:05 p.m. on Wednesday.

Both games will be available on selected Pinnacle Sports Network stations and on the Internet at Huskers.com. In addition, live video streaming is also available on HuskersNside. General admission tickets, priced at $7 (adults) and $5 (youth and seniors) are also available for both games.

The Huskers are 17-3 on the season after seeing their 13-game winning streak snapped in a 7-6 loss to Kansas on Sunday. The setback also ended NU’s 21-game home winning streak that dated back to last May. NU, which clinched the series win with a doubleheader sweep on Saturday, had been brilliant on the mound during its win streak, posting a 1.49 ERA in that stretch, holding eight of its 13 opponents to one run or less. The Huskers dipped to third in Collegiate Baseball while remaining eighth in the Baseball America poll.

Northern Colorado is 8-16 on the year after dropping 2-of-3 games at BYU over the weekend. In that series, the Bears dropped a pair of one-run games before rebounding with an 11-run outburst in Saturday’s finale. UNC, which has played 22 of its 24 games on the road, allowed only a combined eight runs in a two-game series at Creighton. The Bears also played well in a series loss at Texas A&M, allowing just 13 runs in a three-game sweep. The Huskers lead the series 19-2 and have won all five meetings since the Bears returned to the Division I ranks three years ago.

The Huskers will start redshirt freshman Charlie Shirek on Tuesday. The right-hander from Minot, N.D., is 1-0 on the season and ranks third in the Big 12 with a 1.23 ERA. In his last start, Shirek tossed a three-hit shutout of South Dakota State on March 17, becoming the first Husker freshman since 2000 to toss a complete-game shutout. Redshirt freshman Tim Radmacher will make his second start of the year on Wednesday.

NU’s roster features seven players from Colorado, and many of them have played key roles. Brandon Buckman (Monument) hit .615 (8-for-13) with four RBIs to key NU’s sweep of Kansas, lifting his season average to a season-high .365. Luke Gorsett (Denver) tops the Big 12 with nine homers and is among the league leaders with a .373 average, while Jake Opitz (Littleton) and Nick Sullivan (Arvada) have earned starting roles at second base and at designated hitter. Sullivan was 3-for-6 in two starts vs. KU, while Opitz has been solid both offensively and defensively in his first full year as a starter

 
5-2 we lost. hooray! I was there, shirek didn't look great. We got lead-off men on base but couldn't move them around. THey threw their ace and he looked great.

 
Huskers Bounce Back for 9-1 Victory

By: Wire Reports

Date: Mar 29, 2006

Redshirt freshman Tim Radmacher pitched five shutout innings, while Jeff Christy, Ryan Wehrle and Luke Gorsett all homered, as No. 3 Nebraska bounced back to defeat Northern Colorado, 9-1, at Hawks Field on Wednesday afternoon

Radmacher (1-0) earned his first collegiate win, scattering two hits over five innings and striking out six while five Husker hurlers held UNC to five hits, as the Huskers improved to 18-4 heading into a weekend series at Kansas State.

Nebraska Head Coach Mike Anderson was pleased after Radmacher’s second career start.

“He had good enough stuff to only give up a few hits,” Anderson said. “Tim is still working on getting stuff in the zone but he obviously proved he has good enough stuff for them not to make contact and do some of those things. I was just impressed with him, and he’ll hopefully continue to get better and better.

The Husker offense helped Radmacher, capitalizing on three Bear miscues to take a 5-0 lead after three innings. NU scored two unearned runs in the first, including an RBI single by Nick Sullivan, before Wehrle’s RBI double made it 3-0 one inning later.

Werhle led Nebraska’s 12-hit attack with a career-high four hits and driving in three runs, including his third homer of the year, while Sullivan and Christy had two hits apiece and combined to drive in four runs.

The Huskers extended the lead in the third, as Sullivan’s RBI double plated Brandon Buckman, who led off the inning with a walk. Sullivan was thrown out trying to extend the hit into a triple, but NU added another run on Christy’s third homer of the season, a solo shot to left, to make it 5-0.

Anderson said the Huskers’ showed good focus in bouncing back after two straight losses.

“This is a lot of things to learn from the last two days, including just playing to a certain level of intensity that we want all the time,” Anderson said. Even in a 9-1 game there are still some things we can learn, almost just as much today as yesterday. They came out and took care of business early in the game which was great to see.”

The Huskers put the game out of reach in the sixth, scoring four times and chasing UNC starter Seth Gilleland, who allowed seven runs on eight hits in five-plus innings of work.

With runners on the corners and no outs, Jake Mort’s safety squeeze plated one run before Wehrle made it 8-0 two batters later with a two-run shot to left. Gorsett then capped the scoring his Big 12 leading 10th round tripper of the year, a solo blast that not only cleared the outfield fence, but also the ballpark fence that is located nearly 100 feet beyond the outfield fence.

Northern Colorado averted a shutout in the seventh, getting an RBI single from Devin Warner, while no Bear had more than one hit in the loss.

The Huskers return to Big 12 play this weekend, as they head to Kansas State for a key conference series. First pitch is set for Friday evening at 6:30 p.m. and the game will be carried on the Pinnacle Sports Network.

Northern Colorado at #3 Nebraska

Mar 29, 2006 at Lincoln, NE (Hawks Field)

Northern Colorado 1 (9-17)

Player AB R H RBI BB SO PO A LOB

Seth Tartler cf.......... 5 0 1 0 0 2 2 0 1

Devin Warner rf.......... 2 0 1 1 2 0 1 1 0

Brennan Garr 3b.......... 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 4

Zach Harris dh........... 3 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1

Grady Gorman lf.......... 2 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0

Zach Brockman ph/lf..... 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0

Kevin Sandberg 1b........ 4 0 0 0 0 1 12 2 0

Adam Symons ss........... 2 1 0 0 2 0 3 4 0

John Ray c............... 3 0 1 0 0 2 3 0 0

Derrick Keeton c........ 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0

Chad Clark 2b............ 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2

Nate Saylor ph.......... 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Jeff Horn 2b............ 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0

Seth Gilleland p......... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Matt Collins p.......... 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0

Evan Linn p............. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Jon Leines p............ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Totals................... 30 1 5 1 6 8 24 15 9

Nebraska 9 (18-4)

Player AB R H RBI BB SO PO A LOB

Nimmo, Bryce cf.......... 5 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0

Wehrle, Ryan ss.......... 4 2 4 3 1 0 1 3 0

Gorsett, Luke rf......... 4 1 1 2 0 0 2 0 2

Wagner, Matt ph/rf...... 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2

Buckman, Brandon 1b...... 3 1 0 0 1 1 7 0 0

Jaros, Nick lf........... 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0

Sullivan, Nick dh........ 3 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0

Brown, Andrew ph........ 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0

Christy, Jeff c.......... 4 2 2 1 0 0 10 0 2

Hightower, Mark c....... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Opitz, Jake 2b........... 4 1 1 0 0 1 2 2 0

Mort, Jake 3b............ 3 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0

Klapperich, Casey 3b.... 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Radmacher, Tim p......... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0

Foust, Matt p........... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Cranston, Jared p....... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Harmelink, Mike p....... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Jensen, Brett p......... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Totals................... 36 9 12 9 3 4 27 7 6

Score by Innings R H E

Northern Colorado... 000 000 100 - 1 5 3

Nebraska............ 212 004 00X - 9 12 1

E - Clark 3(5); Wehrle, R.(6). DP - Bears 2; Huskers 1. LOB - Bears 9;

Huskers 6. 2B - Harris(4); Wehrle, R.(8); Sullivan, N.(2); Christy, J.(3).

HR - Wehrle, R.(3); Gorsett, L.(10); Christy, J.(3). HBP - Harris. SB -

Nimmo, B.(10); Wehrle, R.(7); Mort, J.(3).

Northern Colorado IP H R ER BB SO AB BF NP

Seth Gilleland...... 5.0 8 7 4 2 2 24 26 87

Matt Collins........ 0.2 2 2 2 0 1 4 4 16

Evan Linn........... 1.1 0 0 0 1 0 3 4 11

Jon Leines.......... 1.0 2 0 0 0 1 5 5 15

Nebraska IP H R ER BB SO AB BF NP

Radmacher, Tim...... 5.0 2 0 0 4 6 17 21 85

Foust, Matt......... 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 12

Cranston, Jared..... 1.0 2 1 1 1 0 5 6 21

Harmelink, Mike..... 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 3 3 11

Jensen, Brett....... 1.0 1 0 0 1 0 3 4 21

Win - Radmacher, T (1-0). Loss - Gilleland (1-5). Save - None.

WP - Foust, M.(4). HBP - by Foust, M. (Harris). BK - Foust, M.(2).

Umpires - HP: Bill McGuire 1B: Joe Wells 3B: Jeff Graver

Start: 1:05p.m. Time: 2:35 Attendance

 
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