Huskers pound UT pitching for sweep
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time he made a mistake, they ham
mered it. But we wanted to fight
through it and give him an opportuni
ty
“He was out there and his adrena
line was going. Bringing in a new
pitcher that hadn’t pitched a whole lot,
it might have taken him three or four
batters to get it going. We didn’t feel
like, with the way Texas was swinging,
that we could do that.”
And Sirianni had the run support.
With the exception of two innings,
Nebraska matched or bettered the run
totals put up by the Longhorns in the
top half of the inning. The Huskers,
who upped their team average to .371,
have now scored in double figures in
11 of their last 12 games.
“We’re a great hitting team,” said
center fielder Jamal Strong, who
knocked three hits in five at bats
Sunday. We re always gomg to put up
these runs. We knew we had it in us.”
The Longhorns, too, had entered
the series with hot bats, hitting .317 as
a team. But the Husker pitching staff -
backed by complete-game efforts
from Sirianni and Scott Fries on
Friday - combined to hold Texas to 26
hits in 105 at bats (.248).
Pitching had been Van Horn’s
main concern entering the weekend
series. Injuries prevented starters
Steve Hale and Shane Komine from
making starts against UT, and NU’s
bullpen didn’t possess much confer
ence experience. But that didn’t prove
to be a problem.
Fries (5-1) tossed a complete
game five hitter Friday, as Nebraska
upset the Longhorns 11-4.
Saturday, four Husker pitchers
combined to surrender eight runs on
11 hits. The last two pitchers, Brandon
Penas and Komine, worked 5 2/3
innings of scoreless rebel and Komine
earned his fifth win of the season.
“I am very impressed with their
pitching plan,” Texas Coach Augie
Garrido said. “Childress has them
moving the ball in and out really well,
changing speeds. I thought it was very
impressive.”
The Longhorns, who had sat atop
the Big 12 Conference until Friday,
fell to 22-11 overall and 8-4 in the
league. Nebraska, on the other hand,
jumped from third to first in the con
ference with Friday’s win.
“I think it’s just a big boost of our
confidence and it’s great for our base
ball program here at Nebraska,” Van
Horn said. “It’s going to help us in
recruiting, and naturally it’s going to
help us in the standings. We feel like
we can play with anybody.”
The Huskers moved into the
Collegiate Baseball Poll for the first
time in 11 years last Sunday after
Garrido impressed with NU pitching
GARRIDO from page 9
Husker sweep, Garrido and the
Longhorns, the old neighborhood
toughs, had just received a taste of their
own medicine.
“The real story is in the level at
which Nebraska played this weekend,”
Garrido said. “It was a very high level.
They handled the fundamentals of the
game offensively and defensively very
well.”
It was the fundamentals that
Garrido discussed with his team: what
the Longhorns may have lacked, what
Nebraska most certainly had.
But what Garrido was most
impressed with was NU’s uncanny
knack for baffling the Longhorn hitters
with solid pitching and putting up more
runs.
No matter what happened in the
three game series, the Huskers were
always cutting away at a Longhorn lead
or building up one of their own.
“We were outplayed,” Garrido said.
“But it wasn’t on the negative side of
things. They just kept putting runs up on
the board, so they took the game away
from us offensively.”
But UT still had some bright spots
in the batting order. Catcher Sam
Anderson was 3-4 with two home runs,
a double and three runs batted in. Right
fielder Steve Woodward was 2-3 with a
triple, a solo home run.
But Anderson, too, credited the
Husker pitching staff with craftily dis
rupting the Texas hitters’ timing “Like
Coach said, they mix pitches well; they
kept us off-balance, they worked us
away then busted us inside,” Anderson
said. “They’ve just got a really good
pitching staff.”
And with the fundamentals, the
pitching, the hitting and the ability to
put them all together, Garrido and
Anderson agreed NU is for real.
“(Nebraska is) a very impressive
college baseball team,” Garrido said.
“They’re well-schooled, well-coached
and they’re very disciplined and very
committed to the team effort.”
defeating Chicago state 50-3 on
March 16.
Sweeping a Top 10 team, Harvey
said, will no doubt help the Huskers
earn even more national respect.
“The Chicago State game got us a
little notoriety - as far as getting us
into the rankings,” Harvey said. “But
now, I think they can see that we’re for
real by sweeping Texas.
“We came into this series thinking
that we can sweep anybody. You have
to have confidence in this league. If
you don’t, you’re going to lose every
game.”
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