Huskers Cruise Past Illinois in 11-2 Win on Saturday

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) – Nebraska scored in six consecutive innings at Illinois on Saturday, because the Huskers cruised to an 11-2 win over the Illini at Illinois Discipline in Champaign, Sick.

Nebraska (20-28, 8-12 Large Ten) totaled 11 runs on 12 hits, whereas the Illini (27-20, 13-7 Large Ten) had two runs on 9 hits.

Emmett Olson improved to 3-3 on the season after permitting two runs on seven hits in 6.2 innings. Olson struck out six Illinois batters and solely allowed one stroll. Koty Frank pitched 1.1 innings of scoreless aid, whereas Corbin Hawkins threw the ultimate inning for the Large Crimson.

Griffin Everitt had a team-high three hits, going 3-for-5 with an RBI and a run scored. Max Anderson went 2-for-4 with a double, house run, 4 RBI and two runs. Cam Chick was 2-for-5 with a two-run homer, whereas Garrett Anglim had a 2-for-4 day with a double and two runs. Colby Gomes was 1-for-3 with a solo house run, two RBI and a run scored.

The Huskers jumped out to a two-run lead within the third, starting a string of six consecutive innings with not less than one run on Saturday for the Large Crimson. Chick was plunked a team-high sixteenth time on the season, whereas Anderson lifted 401-foot two-run homer to middle.

Olson labored round a leadoff single within the house half of the third to clean the Illini to maintain it a 2-0 recreation after three innings.

Gomes led off the fourth by blasting a 1-0 pitch to left middle for his fifth house run on the yr to construct the Husker result in 3-0.

Again-to-back one-out singles by Anglim and Everitt put runners on first and third, earlier than Anderson laced a two-RBI double within the hole in left middle, rising the result in 5-0 within the fifth inning.

Olson retired the facet within the backside of the fifth to maintain Illinois off the board for the fifth consecutive inning.

The Nebraska offense continued its scoring manufacturing within the sixth, as Chick drilled a 414-foot two-run shot to proper, extending the Husker result in 7-0.

Illinois started the underside of the sixth with back-to-back singles and plated its first run of the sport on a sacrifice fly to middle.

The 2 groups exchanged one run every within the seventh, with the Huskers scoring on a balk and the Illini scoring their remaining run of the sport on an RBI double down the left area line.

Nebraska added three runs on three hits within the eighth, increasing its result in 11-2. Anglim opened the inning with a double to left, whereas Everitt drove him house with an RBI single up the center. Anderson reached on a fielder’s alternative and got here round to attain on Gomes’ sacrifice fly, earlier than Sartori scored the Large Crimson’s remaining run of the sport on a wild pitch after ripping a double down the left area line.

Hawkins allowed a leadoff single within the ninth and drew a double play and a strikeout within the backside of the ninth to clinch the nine-run victory for the Huskers.

The 2 groups wrap up the sequence tomorrow, with the rubber recreation set for two p.m. at Illinois Discipline on ESPN2.

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