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BTN+ The Nebraska softball team struggled to get the final out in the second game of Saturday’s doubleheader at Rutgers, as the Scarlet Knights scored seven of their 10 runs with two outs in a 10-6 victory over the Huskers.
Each team had 10 hits, but Rutgers had five two-out hits. The biggest blow was a two-out grand slam in the bottom of the fifth inning. With the game tied at 5-5, Rutgers used a two-out hit batter, a walk, an error and the grand slam to produce the winning margin. Husker pitchers issued a season-high eight walks and hit one batter while allowing a season-high nine runs. Senior right-hander
Story Links The Nebraska softball team scored five runs just six batters into the game Saturday, and the Huskers never looked back in an 8-1 win over Rutgers in the first game of a doubleheader in Piscataway, N.J. Junior
Peyton Glatter highlighted the Huskers’ fast start with a first-inning grand slam. Glatter paced the offense with a 2-for-3 day that included her first career grand slam, a walk, two runs and a career-high-tying four RBIs. Senior
Tristen Edwards did not record an official at bat for the second straight game. Edwards walked once and was hit by a school-record three pitches Saturday after she drew three walks and was hit by one pitch on Friday. Sophomore
Peyton Glatter had Nebraska’s other hit with a one-out single in the fourth inning. Senior
Tristen Edwards walked three times to cap a perfect series that saw her go 1-for-1 with a home run, nine walks and five hit-by-pitches, reaching base safely all 15 times she came to the plate on the weekend. There was little offense to be found for the first five innings. Nebraska left five runners on base through the first five frames, including a runner at second in the first inning and runners at first and second in both the third and fourth innings. Rutgers had only two base runners through the first five innings, stranding a runner at second in the first inning and a runner at first in the third inning.
Two-Out Runs Doom Huskers in 10-6 Loss - University of Nebraska huskers.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from huskers.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.