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Komine Pitches Huskers to 2-0 Win over Richmond

By NU Athletic Communications
Lincoln --Two-time All-American Shane Komine capped a perfect home career by slinging a four-hit complete-game shutout to propel the Nebraska baseball team to a 2-0 victory over the Richmond Spiders in the NCAA Super Regional at Hawks Field in Lincoln on Friday to move the Huskers within one win of the College World Series.

A school-record crowd of 8,474 watched Komine baffle the Spiders for nine innings for his second consecutive complete game to finish off a perfect 20-0 home career as a Husker hurler. Komine notched six strikeouts to become just the sixth pitcher in NCAA history to record 40 wins and 500 strikeouts in his career.

The Huskers improved to 46-18 overall and 1-0 in the best of three Super Regional series, while the Spiders fell to 52-12 overall.

Richmond right-hander Tim Stauffer suffered the loss to fall to 15-3 on the year, despite holding the Huskers to six hits in a complete game of his own. Stauffer posted six strikeouts to match Komine nearly pitch for pitch, but two hit batsmen and four Spider errors proved costly.

Nebraska jumped to a 1-0 lead at the end of the first inning, after Stauffer hit freshman Daniel Bruce with an 0-1 pitch to give the Huskers their first baserunner. It was the 25th time that Bruce had been hit this season, breaking the previous school record of 24 by Corey Miller in 1996. Bruce advanced to third on a Jed Morris single that hit the second-base bag and trickled into center field. Bruce scored on Matt Hopper