[Husker] Huskers win 6-5!!!

[Skylar Dodds]

Hello Husker Fans,

  What a huge win for NU.  Not only did it get them into the Big XII
  championship game, but with the teams that have lost ahead of them
  in the polls, it all but assures we are going to be a Top 8 seed
  come tourney time.

  As soon as I head they were starting Dorn, I was very upset.
  Nothing personal against Johnny, but he hasn't been pitching all
  that well as of late.  Sure enough, Johnny was getting rocked and
  gave up 5 runs in the first 3 innings (1 after he was pulled, but
  still counts against him).

  Tony Watson was definitely one of today's heros.  He came in with 1
  out in the 3rd and left with 2 outs in the 8th and didn't allow a
  single run.  Jensen came in for the final 4 outs and didn't
  surrender a hit.

  The offense was good today, pounding 12 hits and scoring 6. Buckman
  broke out of a funk and hit 3 for 3 today and Brown had the go ahead
  RBI to put the Huskers up for good. The only bad part is we had
  bases loaded in the 7th with no outs (after we had already scored 1)
  and couldn't push another run across (IMHO, one of the reasons was a
  BAD 3rd strike call on a 3-2 count to Christy that got our pitching
  coach tossed that would've scored 1 and would mean the pursuing DP
  would have scored one as well.)

  Interestingly, VERY early in the game, Anderson pulled a cold
  Gorsett for Bryce Nimmo.  He really shuffled the lineup a lot
  today:

  1) Jaros
  2) Wehrle
  3) Buckman
  4) Brown
  5) Gorsett/Nimmo
  6) Opitz
  7) Christy
  8) Sullivan (DH'ing instead of Gerch who hit a big 3 run homer
  early)
  9) Mort

  It's good to see Anderson finally sending the message that if you're
  not going to hit, get out of the lineup.

  Huskers play in the championship vs the winner of MU vs KU at 1:00pm
  on Fox Sports Net.  MU has been playing really hot, sweeping UT and
  then drubbing both OSU and OU.  Give KU credit as well for beating
  both OU and OSU.

  Like I said before, I think this all but locks up our National Seed
  with North Carolina losing early in their tourney, Virginia (0-2)
  losing early in theirs, Alabama has been playing well (helps our
  RPI/SOS), Kentucky, OSU, OU, Clemson lost today...

  Plus someone said coming into today our RPI was like 3rd or
  something like that, which can't hurt.  Factor in our big crowds and
  you have yourself a Super Regional :)

  We really couldn't catch a break with the umpires all day long, but
  still managed to win.  Great win SKERS!!!

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Go Skers,
 Skylar                            mailto:Sklarbodds at cox.net