Nebraska baseball (4-5) entered the second day of the Frisco College Baseball Classic, facing its biggest test yet of the season: the No. 2 LSU Tigers. Though the Huskers started the game off strong, they allowed the Tigers to outscore them 11-1 across the final six innings, leading to their 11-6 defeat.
Nebraska jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first before heading into the fourth up 5-0. But things grew quiet from there, while LSU got back into the game by the fifth, cutting the Huskers’ lead to one. The Tigers erupted in the seventh, however, scoring six runs to jump out to a 10-5 lead.
Nebraska responded with a run shortly after but failed to get anything going from there. The team finished with 11 hits for six RBIs, with almost of them coming in the first three innings. LSU earned 17 hits for 11 RBIs.
Cael Frost finished 3-for-4 in the loss, earning a team-high three hits for two RBIs. Devin Nunez also delivered three hits and scored twice.
Cayden Brumbaugh snatched two hits for two RBIs while Joshua Overbeek scored twice off two hits. Case Sanderson and Riley Silva drove in an RBI, Sanderson’s off his only hit and Silva’s off a sacrificial grounder.
Ty Horn started on the mound for Nebraska, pitching across the first half of the game. Horn finished with three strikeouts while allowing eight hits, four runs and a walk across 4.2 innings. But the Huskers couldn’t keep the Tigers at bay, going through six pitchers and surrendering nine hits and seven runs in 4.1 innings.
Nebraska closes out the Frisco Classic against Kansas State on Sunday. The first pitch is set for noon and the game is streaming on D1Baseball.
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