Nebraska wins back-to-back Big Ten baseball titles in 5-0 shutout win over the UCLA Bruins
Nebraska wins back-to-back Big Ten baseball titles in 5-0 shutout win over the UCLA Bruins
For the second year in a row, Nebraska (32-27) entered the Big Ten Championship on Sunday, this time facing No. 13 UCLA (42-16) for the title. The Huskers shut down the Bruins on the day 5-0, winning back-to-back championships.
This is just the third shutout in the Big Ten Championship game and Nebraska's first back-to-back conference championship since 2001.
The Huskers built themselves a 5-0 lead in the opening third, putting the Bruins in an early deficit and keeping them off the board.
Ty Horn (3-4) pitched the shutout, going 8.0 innings and holding the Bruins to just three hits. Horn fired six strikeouts in the win, facing only 30 batters in his stretch. Casey Daiss secured the save in the ninth, snatching the final three outs and striking out the final two batters.
Dylan Carey got the Huskers on the board with an RBI double in the second. Case Sanderson then scored on a passed ball before Rhett Stokes brought Carey home with an RBI single. Devin Nunez brought Carey home in the third by blasting a two-run home run, his only hit of the game.
Carey finished 2-for-4 at the plate, earning two doubles and one RBI. Stokes drove in one RBI following a 2-for-3 day. Sanderson hit 1-for-4.
The Huskers now await their seeding for the NCAA Tournament, which is set to begin on Friday.
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