A fourth straight Big Ten Conference series win for Nebraska baseball.
The Huskers disappointingly dropped the Friday affair to the Hoosiers, but took Saturday and Sunday for the series win. Nebraska is now 32-18 while Indiana drops to 28-21.
NU is now a half game out of first place in the Big Ten with Illinois taking on Iowa later this afternoon.
Nebraska led 5-3 heading into the ninth inning on Friday night, but Indiana rallied to score seven runs and take the game 10-5. That late rally ruined a solid start from Brett Sears, who allowed two runs, one of them earned, on three hits over 7.0 innings.
Setting up for a similar gut punch Saturday, Indiana tied the game at 2-2 in the top of the eighth inning. When neither team scored in the ninth, the two headed to extra innings. Indiana was blanked in the top half of the tenth. Then, with two outs and a pair of runners on base, Cole Evans drilled the ball 415 feet to center field, walking-off the game 5-2.
For the first time all weekend, Nebraska didn’t need to take its final at bat. NU grabbed a pair of runs in the third inning and added one in each of the sixth and seventh innings while the Hoosiers could only muster a pair of solo home runs. Nebraska got the 4-2 win while only using two pitchers: Jackson Brockett for 5.0 innings and Drew Christo for the final 4.0 innings.
Nebraska will now close out the regular season with a Thursday, Friday, Saturday series at Michigan State.