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Nebraska baseball team overcomes early deficit to clinch series against Jaguars

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March 10, 2024

Nebraska baseball team overcomes early deficit to clinch series against Jaguars

LINCOLN, Neb. (Nebraska Athletics) – Nebraska scored 10 of its runs with two outs and overcame a five-run deficit for the first time since 2021, as the Huskers clinched the series over South Alabama with a 12-7 win on Sunday afternoon at Hawks Field at Haymarket Park.

The Huskers (9-4) scored 12 runs on 15 hits and five errors, while the Jaguars (11-5) had seven runs on eight hits and an error.

Rhett Stokes continued his hot stretch at the plate this weekend, going 3-for-4 with two doubles and two RBI. Tyler Stone was 3-for-5 with a double and team-high three runs scored.

Dylan Carey had a 2-for-3 afternoon at the plate with a home run, three RBI and a pair of walks. Case Sanderson, Garrett Anglim and Dylan Hufft recorded two hits apiece, while Cole Evans had a double.

Ty Horn made his first career start on Sunday, pitching three innings. The freshman allowed six runs, two earned, on three hits and struck out four Jaguars. Mason McConnaughey pitched the next three innings and picked up his first win to improve to 1-2 on the season. McConnaughey struck out a career-high seven hitters and allowed just two hits and a walk.

Kyle Perry recorded two outs, setting up Tucker Timmerman to finish the game for the NU pitching staff. Timmerman struck out four and issued one walk and two hits in 2.1 scoreless innings of relief.

A leadoff walk, followed by back-to-back errors on routine ground balls plated the game’s first run for the Jaguars in the opening frame. South Alabama’s lead enlarged to four after Lucas Ismaili’s three-run homer to left.

The Big Red had the bases loaded in the second with no outs after a leadoff double by Stone and consecutive walks to Clay Bradford and Garrett Anglim. An RBI groundout from Ben Columbus scored Stone but that would be all the Huskers could get, as a 5-4-3 double play put an end to Nebraska’s threat and kept it a 4-1 game.

A hit and an error in the top of the third added two more to the lead for the Jaguars. A two-out single, followed by an NU fielding error made it a 5-1 game, before a wild pitch later in the inning grew the lead to 6-1.

The Huskers got one of the two runs back in the bottom of the third after Silva reached on a leadoff walk and Sanderson poked an RBI single through the right side.

McConnaughey blanked the Jaguars in the fourth and fifth innings, while the NU offense put up four runs on four hits in the bottom of the fifth to lock the game at six. Josh Caron reached on a fielder’s choice, while Stone singled to center to put runners on first and second with one out. Anglim continued the rally in the fifth with an RBI double to left-center, plating Caron.

Carey drew a full-count walk with the bases loaded to score Stone, while Stokes smacked a two-RBI single back up the middle to lock the game at six through five innings.

South Alabama began the sixth with a leadoff single, but McConnaughey retired the next three Jaguars to maintain the tie at six heading into the bottom of the sixth.

The NU offense picked up where it left off from in the fifth, scoring six two-out runs in the sixth to jump ahead 12-6. A walk to Caron and Stone’s second single of the day set up Evans’ two-RBI double to the fence in right-center. Evans came around to score on Anglim’s RBI single in the next at-bat to give the Big Red a 9-6 lead.

Hufft sent a 3-2 pitch to center for an RBI single to plate Anglim and grow the lead to four, before Carey launched a 353-foot two-run homer into the left-field berm for his first homer of the season.

A leadoff solo homer in the top of the seventh brought the Jaguars within five, while a pair of NU errors placed runners on first and second for the visitors with two outs. Timmerman replaced Perry on the mound and induced a first-pitch fielder’s choice to elude the damage.

Timmerman worked around a single in the eighth and faced traffic on the basepath in the ninth, but the freshman clinched the series win with a three-pitch strikeout of Robbie Petracci to finish off the Jaguars for Nebraska’s 12-7 win.

Nebraska travels to Wichita, Kan., for a pair of midweek games at Wichita State on Tuesday-Wednesday, March 12-13.

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IU dominated but then ‘it was just turnovers’ to blow 16-point lead vs Nebraska

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January 10, 2026

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IU dominated but then ‘it was just turnovers’ to blow 16-point lead vs Nebraska

Indiana men’s basketball lost to Nebraska 83-77 after leading by as many as 16 points.
Coach Darian DeVries cited a bad stretch, including key fouls on Tucker DeVries and turnovers, as the turning point.
The Hoosiers have three more opportunities for a Quad 1 win in their upcoming games.

BLOOMINGTON — Indiana men’s basketball coach Darian DeVries thought his team played well for about 28 minutes Saturday afternoon.

In those 28 minutes, IU built up as much as a 16-point lead against undefeated Nebraska. The Hoosiers went on a 12-2 run to end the first half, then extended that lead early in the second half.

Then, the defense started crumbling. Tucker DeVries picked up two fouls in the course of 21 seconds, forcing him to the bench. The Hoosiers started turning the ball over.

And Indiana’s upset bid fell apart, as the Hoosiers dropped an 83-77 decision to the Cornhuskers (16-0, 5-0 Big Ten).

“It’s disappointing, for sure,” Darian DeVries said. “We played well for a good 25, 27, 28 minutes, whatever, and then just had a bad stretch in there, and the game flipped. That’s why the turnovers are a big piece of that. We had, (a 16-point lead) and Tucker picked up his third and fourth foul on back-to-back possessions. Then they went on a 10-0 run right after that. That was a big turning point in the game, I thought, when he picked those two up.”

It seemed like the coaching staff (and fans) didn’t agree with those fouls, either.

Tucker DeVries’ third foul came as he fell on the ground while trying to defend Berke Buyuktuncel’s shot. Buyuktuncel continued to attempt a shot after the fall, and he got tangled in DeVries’ legs, falling himself, and officials called a foul on DeVries. Both Tucker and Darian DeVries, along with the crowd of 13,000 fans, didn’t agree with that foul.

Tucker DeVries’ fourth foul, which forced him to the bench for eight minutes, came just 21 seconds after his third. On the Hoosiers’ next offensive possession, DeVries attempted to shoulder his defender to get more space, and got called for the offensive foul and the turnover.

Indiana (12-4, 3-2) turned the ball over on four of its next five possessions, Darian DeVries said, and Nebraska capitalized for a 12-2 run to tie the game.

“I just think we didn’t have the type of possessions we needed after (Tucker DeVries) went out again, and most of them, it was just turnovers,” Darian DeVries said. “We didn’t get shots at the goal. I thought there might’ve been one or two in there where I think Lamar (Wilkerson) drove it hard and tried going through contact, and we didn’t get one there, but outside of that, we just didn’t get very good possessions. Our movement wasn’t as good.”

After Nebraska went on that run, all the momentum shifted to the Cornhuskers. In ways, the Hoosiers couldn’t get out of their own head, and the mistakes kept coming.

“We’ve talked to them a lot about that next play mentality,” Darian DeVries said. “Win that next play, and not compound mistakes. I thought tonight, again, for a stretch there was a period where we let one mistake turn into two. Then, instead of digging in and really making sure we get a quality possession the next time, we compounded it with another turnover. It led to back-to-back-to-back. All of a sudden your lead is gone, and momentum is real. It shifted pretty quickly there.”

This game, especially taking into account the 16-point lead Indiana once had, was a crucial opportunity for the Hoosiers to get their first Quad 1 win of the season.

But the Hoosiers, sitting at No. 30 in the NET rankings, still have three straight Quad 1 opportunities coming up in two road tilts at Michigan State and Michigan and a home game against Iowa in the next two weeks.

Those games, much like Nebraska, will be tall tasks. But, DeVries said, if the Hoosiers can execute for a full game like they did in those 28 minutes on Saturday, they’ll have a chance at them.

“When they’re executing the way that they did the first 25 minutes, it looks really good,” DeVries said. “And they’re doing a great job, and they’re defending and getting movement and things.”

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$3,125 Nebraska Pick 4 winning ticket sold in York

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January 10, 2026

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,125 Nebraska Pick 4 winning ticket sold in York

LINCOLN, Neb. (KSNB) – One lucky player who bought a Nebraska Pick 4 ticket for the Thursday drawing is holding a ticket worth $3,125.

The ticket was sold at Pump & Pantry #16, 109 Lincoln Avenue, in York. The winning numbers from Thursday’s Nebraska Pick 4 draw were 09, 06, 01, 02.

Winning Nebraska Lottery Lotto tickets expire 180 days after the drawing. Tickets with total prize amounts of $501 to $19,999 must be claimed by mail or at a Regional Lottery Claim Center. Additional information about claiming prizes can be found at the Nebraska Lottery website, nelottery.com, or by calling 800-587-5200.

Nebraska Pick 4 is a daily Lotto game from the Nebraska Lottery. Players select four numbers, each from a separate set of digits 0 through 9, for a chance to win up to $6,000. Players decide what type of play style and potential prizes to play for by choosing from one of six bet types. The odds of winning the $3,125 prize in Nebraska Pick 4 are 1 in 10,000.

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