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Tickets: General admission seating and a select number of reserve seats are available for purchase on Huskers.com or at the Hawks Field Ticket Office 90 minutes before the first pitch of each contest.
Radio: All three games against Seton Hall will be carried on the Pinnacle Sports Network with Jim Rose and John Bishop.
Huskers Play Host to Seton Hall this Weekend
Nebraska continues its longest homestand of the season this weekend, as the Huskers play host to Seton Hall at Hawks Field. The series between the No. 21 Huskers (15-2) and Pirates (3-7) commences Friday afternoon with a 2:05 p.m. start and continues on Saturday (1:05 p.m.) and Sunday (11:05 a.m.). Sunday’s start time was changed to accommodate the Pirates’ travel plans.
The Huskers have been on a roll since beginning this seven-game homestand. As a team, Nebraska is hitting .415 over the last seven contests and averaging 12 runs a game. While the Husker bats have erupted, the pitching staff has continued its consistency, posting a 1.98 ERA, slightly above their season team ERA of 1.78. The Huskers have held 13 of their 17 opponents to three runs or less
The Pirates make their first-ever trip to Lincoln with a 3-7 mark, as they have played just one game since March 4, a 3-2 loss to Stony Brook on Wednesday. The teams have only met one other time, a 6-2 Husker win on March 25, 1980.
Following the weekend series, the Huskers conclude the homestand with Western Illinois on Tuesday (4:05 p.m.) and Wednesday (2:05 p.m.) before opening the Big 12 portion of the schedule at Kansas on March 25.
Leading Off
? -The Huskers are enjoying one of the program’s best starts in school history, as their 15-2 start is the program’s best opening stretch since 1988 and the second best in the program’s history (dating back to 1889). In fact, only the 1983 team, which opened the year with a school-record 26-game winning streak, has opened a season better than the 2005 Huskers.
? -Nebraska has won the last nine meetings against Big East opponents since a 5-3 loss to Notre Dame during the 1995 season. NU is 5-0 against Big East opponents under Head Coach Mike Anderson.
? - Nebraska is 13-12 all-time against the current members of the Big East, with 10 of those losses coming to Notre Dame in a series that dates back to 1897.
? - Nebraska is 13-12 all-time against the current members of the Big East, with 10 of those losses coming to Notre Dame in a series that dates back to 1897.
? - Nebraska has scored three runs or more in an inning 19 times already this season, including an 11-run inning against South Dakota State on March 14. On the other hand, no opponent has scored more than two runs in any inning this season.
?-Curtis Ledbetter (Lawrence, Kan.) and Brandon Fusilier (Coppell, Texas) became only the third and fourth Huskers to ever homer twice in an inning during Sunday’s 11-run fourth inning. The duo joins Matt Hopper (2000) and Marc Sagmoen (1993) as the only Huskers to belt two homers in the same inning.
?-Alex Gordon (Lincoln, Neb.) saw one streak come to an end during the second game of Saturday’s twinbill. Gordon sat out the final three innings on Saturday, ending a streak of 496.2 consecutive innings in the field. Gordon had played in every inning of every game dating back to March 20, 2004.
?-Joba Chamberlain (Lincoln, Neb.) became the first Husker to earn national player-of-the-week honors since Jed Morris in 2002 and the first Husker pitcher honored since Aaron Marsden in that same season.
?-Nebraska has scored at least one run in 406 of the last 407 games dating back to the 1998 season. In 2004, the Huskers were the only Big 12 team not shut out.
?-Gordon will look to become the first position player and only the second player in Big 12 history to repeat as conference player of the year. Baylor’s Jason Jennings is the only other player to win multiple Big 12 Player-of-the-Year awards (1998-99).
?-With two wins, Nebraska Head Coach Mike Anderson will record his 100th career victory. Anderson is 98-43 in two-plus seasons at Nebraska.
?-Nebraska is only one of 11 teams nationally - and one of only two schools in the Big 12 - to have team ERAs under 4.00 in each of the last three seasons.