[Husker] Baseball Team sweeps Northern Colorado

Tue Mar 11 10:52:00 CDT 2008

DJ's got good speed but Nimmo's a little faster.  On defense we're solid for
the most part.  

I was telling a friend the other day that this is one of the best left
side's of the infield we've ever had.  Right there with Gordon and Simo
(maybe even a little better).  Mort's got one of the best gloves we've ever
had (if only his bat was a little better) and Kline looks very promising
early. 

Last year the talk was all about "How do we replace Christy?" and for the
first few weeks it looked like that spot was going to be a nightmare.  Well,
Abeita stepped up bigtime and that's one of our best positions again.  He's
got a great arm to 2nd and he's more dangerous than Christy at the plate.

In right, Belfonte's got the speed and his arm's incredible.  He got tested
a little last year early, but after he threw out a couple at 3rd and a few
at home, that was the end of that.  You just don't push your luck on that
guy.

In center, Nimmo's been the anchor for 4 years now and he's very good
defensively (might not be quite as flashy as DJ, but he's got crazy speed).
His arm's not great, but he more than makes up for it with his wheels.

Left and 1st are interesting because a lot of people are shifting in and out
of those positions.  Sullivan is playing left field the most with Stewart
(love his bat) and Farst and Corriston and Neer have been switching off at
first.  Neither Corriston nor Neer have been regular 1st basemen at the
college level so it should be interesting to see how that plays out.

Opitz makes some great plays at 2nd, but it seems like he'll follow that up
with a boot on an easy play shortly after.  

Soooooooooooooo good to have college baseball back.

--
Skylar

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Erlandson [mailto:ere at inetnebr.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 10:12 AM
To: Skylar Dodds
Cc: husker at tssi.com
Subject: RE: [Husker] Baseball Team sweeps Northern Colorado

Great topic.  DJ must be fast.  Even if he doesn't lay one out there 
perfectly, he might beat a throw.  I was a little curious about our DH in 
the 7-hole.  I can understand when he's 9th, 'cause he might set up the 
top of the order.  To move Sullivan up in the order, though, he'd probably 
replace Nimmo, and, as you say, if it ain't broke. . . .

Losing switch-hitting Tezac was terrifying to me, but things are going 
great right now.  We often have a nice LRLRLRLRL line-up, depending on 
whether Farst or Stewart play, and where Kline is in the line-up.

I think the purge of a couple key attitude-setters has made a great 
difference.  You realize how little you care about winning when other, 
more serious problems arise.

-Eric
(Eric Erlandson, CEO)

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Skylar Dodds wrote:

> Tony:
>
> I would be quite surprised if they put DJ down in the lineup because he's
> such a great table setter.  He's not a big threat to hit one out (hit his
> first career homer today) although I'd say he's the best 'pure athlete' on
> the team.
>
> The only way I'd see that move is if Bryce Nimmo continues to hit the ball
> like he has been (he's had good starts before).  Even so, it may fall
under
> the category of "if it isn't broken".
>
> Also worth mentioning is the play of Ben Kline so far.  The frosh from
Omaha
> Central has been stellar defensively at short and has had a very decent
bat
> at the plate.
>
> Good question tho.
>
> --
> Skylar
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Lambert [mailto:bugeaters1 at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 6:03 PM
> To: Skylar Dodds; husker at tssi.com
> Subject: Re: [Husker] Baseball Team sweeps Northern Colorado
>
> Skylar, I have a question for you. with Belfonte as the lead off and him
> hitting .392. Isn't that quite high for a lead man. And do you see him
> moving down in the order say to the 3 of 5 hole ? And I agree with you on
> the pitching staff. I was hoping Newman would do with this staff what he
has
>
> done so far.
>
> Tony Lambert
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Skylar Dodds" <sklarbodds at cox.net>
> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 5:53 PM
> To: <husker at tssi.com>
> Subject: [Husker] Baseball Team sweeps Northern Colorado
>
>> In case you haven’t seen, the Husker baseball team swept the Northern
>> Colorado Bears for their 9th straight win.
>>
>> It's very hard not to get excited about how this team is playing.  For
>> those
>> of us that consider baseball a religion, this team has a different feel
to
>> it.  There's fire, passion and an aggressive attitude to this team that
we
>> haven't seen for a few years.
>>
>> Northern Colorado is not a bad team, they took 2 of 4 from #20 aTm
>> (although
>> they're not world beaters).
>>
>> Besides the drastically improved attitude, the story of the year is the
>> Husker pitchers.  Since the first game (where we gave up 16 earned runs)
>> the
>> staff has an ERA under 2.00.
>>
>> The starters ERAs are Dorn 1.35, Pribanic 0.99, Jennings 2.87, and Weber
>> 7.16 (give him a little break since he pitched horribly the first game,
>> but
>> has been decent since.
>>
>> The relievers have a 22 inning scoreless streak going right now.  Zach
>> Herr,
>> Mike Nesseth, and Erik Anderson probably the most notable have been ligts
>> out.
>>
>> The hitting has been improved with 4 of the regulars batting over .300
>> (Nimmo .439, Belfonte .392, Abeita .344, Sullivan .318) but the real
story
>> has been the pitching. Sounds like the new pitching coach Eric Newman is
>> earning his keep.
>>
>> The Huskers play tomorrow vs South Dakota State at 1:35pm before heading
>> to
>> KSU for the first series of the Big XII season this weekend.
>>
>> GBR!
>> --
>> Skylar
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