[Husker] Huskers 2-0

[Skylar Dodds]

  Today the Huskers survive a late scare to beat NC State 4-3.  It was
  the bottom of the ninth with one out, Huskers up 4-0 when reliever
  Brett Jensen walked Aaron Cone.  The very next batter Jeremy Synan
  took the first pitch over the left field wall.

  Jensen then got the next batter to ground out to 3rd, but then on
  the very next pitch, Matt Mangini homered to left.  Fortunately,
  Jensen was able to get Jon Still to ground out to third for the
  final out of the inning.

  What a close one for the skers.  Joba started the game, went 7.1
  innings, struck out 7, no runs, 2 hits for a great first start of
  the year.  He was pulled after striking out the first batter in the
  7th (probably because he just hit 100 pitches and it's early in the
  season) in favor of Junior reliever Jared Cranston (Seward County CC
  transfer) came in a struck out 2 to end the inning.

  As for the offense, the scoring was pretty spread out, no homers
  today.  In the third, Opitz singled with 1 out to start the inning
  and was brought home on a full-count triple by Bryce Nimmo.  The
  next batter, Ryan Wherle double down the left field line to make it
  2-0.

  That score held until the 6th inning when Gerch was HBP and Brandon
  Buckman was walked on 4 straight pitches.  Then Anderson calls for
  the sac bunt, but all runners were safe on an error by the first
  baseman.  With the bases loaded, Nick Jarros doubled in two runs to
  left field making it 4-0.  Still with nobody out, however, Christy
  struck out, Opitz lined out, and Edlefsen grounded out to the
  pitcher to end the inning.

  Huskers will face The Citadel tomorrow at 1:30pm and then against
  Richmond early Sunday at 10:00 am. Both games will be broadcast on
  HuskersNSide (hopefully, todays game wasn't due to technical
  difficulties). No radio is yet scheduled, which again seems very
  odd.

  Good start for the Huskers.  Pitching looks great so far and the
  offense has scored 15 runs in 2 games.  NC State is a MUCH better
  team the Charleston Southern so this was a good win!

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