Huskers Fall Late on Saturday

Nebraska brought the tying run to the plate in the ninth but fell short, as the Huskers fell 5-3 at San Diego on Saturday night.

Nebraska (0-2) had three runs on 11 hits and an error, while San Diego (2-0) scored five runs on six hits with no errors.

Dylan Carey had a team-high three hits for the Huskers, going 3-for-4 at the plate with a double and a run scored. Josh Caron went 2-for-4 with a home run, two RBI and a run. Garrett Anglim stretched his hitting streak to nine games with a 2-for-4 performance. Charlie Fischer, Casey Burnham and Max Anderson had one hit apiece.

Jace Kaminska tossed 5.2 innings in his Husker debut, allowing three runs on five hits and striking out four. Mason Ornelas surrendered only a walk in his 1.1 shutout innings of relief. Shay Schanaman took the loss after allowing two runs on one hit and two walks in one inning of work.

San Diego began the scoring with Kevin Sim’s two-run homer to left-center in the open frame.

Two-out hitting fueled the Husker offense in the fifth, allowing the Big Red to trim the deficit to 2-1. Carey reached on a two-out single through the left side and advanced to second on a wild pitch, before Anglim brought Carey home with an RBI single to left field.

USD doubled its lead in the sixth after Kaminska retired 10 consecutive Toreros in the third through sixth innings. A hit batter broke up Kaminska’s streak after back-to-back strikeouts, while an RBI single through the left side made it a 3-1 game after six innings.

The Big Red opened the seventh with the first two hitters reaching after back-to-back singles by Walsh and Carey but couldn’t capitalize, as the Toreros retired the next three Huskers to hold the lead.

Fischer reached on a two-out single in the eighth, followed by Caron drilling a two-run blast to left-center for his first career homer as a Husker, tying the game at three.

The Toreros responded quickly in the bottom half of the inning, plating two runs on one hit. Jack Gurevitch’s two-out RBI single through the left side scored the go-ahead run, while Angelo Peraza touched home on a wild pitch to make it a 5-3 game after eight innings.

Carey opened the ninth with a double down the right field line to bring the tying run to the plate, but the next three Huskers were retired via strikeout to end the game.

Game three of this weekend’s series between the Huskers and Toreros is set for 3 p.m. CT tomorrow at Fowler Park in San Diego.