[Husker] Husker Pitchers Shutout JackRabbits

[Skylar Dodds]

Hello Husker Fans,

  The Husker baseball team won both games today 10-0 and 3-0.  Sorry
  for the late post, I was actually at the games today and just got
  back to Omaha.

  Pitching, as usual, (on the weekends anyway) was dominant. The first
  game was started by Tony Watson. He threw 5, struck out 6 and looked
  very sharp.  Wertz came in for the final 2 and pitched no hit ball.
  The game continued into the 7th until NU scored it's 10th run and
  Anderson came out and stopped the game.  I always thought they only
  did 7 on double-header's anyway, but it looked like they were going
  to keep going.  After the first game, they announced the second game
  was only going to be 7 as well.

  In the second game, Charlie Shirek threw a complete game (7 innings)
  on only 67 pitches. He struck out 3 and scattered 3 singles for the
  win. Joba didn't throw today because of the colder weather, they
  didn't want someone with tightness in his shoulder to throw in the
  cold. He did head down to the bullpen to warmup and looked fine.

  It's clear that our weekend staff is going to be one of the best
  this year.  Joba, Watson, Dorn, Shirek, Cranston, Jensen, and Wertz
  makes for a great weekend staff.  We're going to be awful tough to
  win a series against.

  From a hitting side, Nimmo hit his 2nd home run of the year that
  just cleared the wall in right.  Jaros opened up the scoring in the
  first game with a sac fly in the first, and a run scoring hit in the
  3rd.  The Huskers broke it open later that inning with 6 stolen
  bases in the inning and a couple of RBIs by Gerch and Buckman.

  In the second game, Gorsett started it off in the first with a
  two-out double to left center.  He scored later on Brown's RBI
  single up the middle.

  The Jackrabbits were clearly not as good of a team.  I don't think
  they ever got passed second base, and I think they only got there
  once.

  Due to the weather, they have changed tomorrow to a double header
  again in hopes of getting all the games in.

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Go Skers,
 Skylar                            mailto:Sklarbodds at cox.net