Huskers Take Down No. 1 Longhorns

The No. 10 Nebraska softball team beat the No. 1 Texas Longhorns - the defending national champions - by a score of 8-5 on Saturday evening to notch its fourth win over the No. 1 team in program history. 

Nebraska beat a top-ranked team for the first time since April 8, 2016, when it downed then-No. 1 Michigan, 1-0.

The Big Red (2-1) never trailed against the Longhorns after posting a four-run first inning, highlighted by an Ava Kuszak three-run home run. NU accounted for the rest of its runs in a four-run third inning that included another three-run bomb from Emmerson Cope. 

Jordy Frahm (1-1) claimed the win in the circle after throwing a scoreless final four innings of relief to close out the game. Frahm allowed only three hits and struck out five en route to the win. Alexis Jensen threw the first three innings for NU and allowed eight hits and five earned runs with six strikeouts.

Offensively, Kuszak and Cope each logged three RBIs on the day while Kuszak had two hits and two runs. Frahm, Jesse Farrell, Hannah Camenzind, Kacie Hoffmann and Lauren Camenzind added a hit apiece. Frahm and L. Camenzind each knocked a solo home run as NU hit four homers in the game.

The Huskers took the lead on the second pitch of the game when Frahm knocked a solo shot over the wall in center field. Coor reached first on an error by the Longhorn pitcher and Farrell notched an infield single to put two on base to set up an Ava Kuszak three-run homer to extend the lead to 4-0. 

Texas cut the lead to two in the bottom of the first at 4-2.

Kuszak and H. Camenzind opened the top of the third with back-to-back singles before a Cope bomb extended the advantage to 7-2 and forced a UT pitching change. L. Camenzind hit a solo homer of her own, the Huskers’ fourth of the day, to make the score 8-2. 

The Longhorns fought back to 8-5 with a three-run bottom of the third that included a two-run homer.

Texas mounted threats in the fourth and fifth with runners in scoring position but Frahm and the Husker defense shut them down and retired six straight in the sixth and seventh to close out the 8-5 win.

NU will play its second game of the day starting approximately 30 minutes after the conclusion of this game. The Huskers will face off against host UTSA. 

Notes

• Nebraska’s last win over the No. 1 team in the country was on April 8, 2016, when NU beat then-No. 1 Michigan.
• Today was only the fourth time in school history that the Huskers have beat the No. 1 team in the country.
• Nebraska hit 4+ home runs for the first time this season. NU accomplished that feat 10 times in 2025.
• Nebraska posted four-run innings in the first and third innings to account for all of their runs.
• With the Huskers’ eight runs today, NU has now scored 31 runs across three games this weekend. The Big Red totaled 33 runs in five games in last season’s opening tournament.
• Nebraska scored 18 runs in its two games of the weekend against No. 1 Texas.