Members of the Nebraska baseball team celebrate Luke Roskam’s grand slam in the second game of Saturday’s doubleheader at Haymarket Park.
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When the Nebraska baseball team takes the field this weekend against Maryland, the Huskers will do so as the first-place team in the Big Ten.
Thanks to Maryland’s 17-7 win over Michigan on Monday, NU sits alone in first place in the conference at 13-5, one-half game ahead of the Wolverines (13-6) and 1.5 games ahead of Ohio State.
After not being picked among the league’s top six teams in the preseason coaches’ poll, NU has gotten to where it is thanks to a simple formula: be aggressive, and keep that aggression through the entire game.
In winning eight of its last nine games, Nebraska has done just that.
“There were some moments in those games (against Illinois over the weekend) where our aggression helped us win those games,” NU coach Will Bolt said Monday night on Sports Nightly. “We tell our guys that fortune favors the bold, and we want our guys to compete that way.”
NU’s coaches want that mentality to permeate all facets of the game — whether it’s at the plate, on the mound, defensively, or on the base paths.
And it reared its head during a key moment in Sunday’s series clinching win when Brice Matthews stole home with two outs late in a two-run game.
The true freshman from Texas saw an opportunity, and when Illinois catcher Jacob Campbell looped a throw back to Fighting Illini pitcher Andrew Pogue, Matthews broke for the plate and easily slid in under the attempted tag to give NU a 10-7 lead in a game it would go on to win 12-7.
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