Nebraska dominated Ohio State in a football stadium.
The sport was baseball, though, as the Huskers got a career-high 12 strikeouts from Cade Povich while rolling to a 10-4 win Friday over the Buckeyes at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.
Playing in the home of the NFL’s Minnesota Vikings, Povich struck out 12 of the 25 batters he faced while allowing three runs on five hits and walking two over just six innings.
Povich’s 12 strikeouts were the most by a Husker pitcher since 2010, when Michael Mariot fanned 12 against Southeast Missouri State and Mike Nesseth set down 12 against Sam Houston State in 2009.
You have to go back to 2008, when Johnny Dorn struck out 13 against Northern Colorado, to find the last time a NU hurler struck out more than 12.
Povich got all the support he would need in the second inning, when Nebraska scored five runs.
Three of those runs came courtesy of the bat of freshman Max Anderson, who continued his torrid start by blasting a three-run home run. Joe Acker put NU on the board earlier in the inning with a two-run single.
The Huskers (4-1) got an RBI double from Spencer Schwellenbach in the fourth and a solo homer from Jaxon Hallmark in the eighth to extend the lead. Nebraska also scored runs on a passed ball and a throwing error.
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