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The high here on Tuesday is 74 and meaningful baseball is happening.  Praise the Lord!

Hopes?  Expectations?  MSUs ace looks like the future pro he was expected to be.  Rest of the team looks rough.  Not sure how good Fresno State is supposed to be, but MSU is starting down an 0-3 start.

Tempe, Ariz. – Leading 4-3 after six innings, the Nebraska baseball team (1-0) scored four runs in the seventh inning on its way to an 8-3 win over UC Riverside in the season opener at Tempe Diablo Stadium on Friday evening.

Senior right-hander Luis Alvarado, making his first career start, struck out a career-high nine batters in 4.2 innings. Junior righty Matt Waldron earned the win with 1.1 innings, while junior righty Robbie Palkert earned the save in 3.0 shutout innings.

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TEMPE, Ariz. — Nebraska wore down the ace of a Pac-12 team for three runs in the middle innings and five pitchers combined to stifle Washington State in an 8-3 victory Saturday afternoon to start a doubleheader.

The Cornhuskers (2-1) then lost their second game 8-1 to UC Riverside at Tempe Diablo Stadium. NU wraps up the weekend Sunday with a 1 p.m. game against Washington State.

The high here on Tuesday is 74 and meaningful baseball is happening.  Praise the Lord!

Hopes?  Expectations?  MSUs ace looks like the future pro he was expected to be.  Rest of the team looks rough.  Not sure how good Fresno State is supposed to be, but MSU is starting down an 0-3 start.

Got swept at Fresno.  Positives?  3 of the 4 losses we're by 1.  Real problem is the last couple years MSU did surprisingly well non conference, then collapsed in Big Ten play.  Now they aren't even putting themselves in position non conference.

Iowa is now 5-1. Had a 14-6 defeat to Ball State.

Plays D-III Cornell College 2-27-2018 in Iowa City. Global warming allows February baseball in Iowa.

Defending BTN tournament champion Iowa starts 3-0 with one win over Oakland, and two wins over Old Dominion.
I don't follow this sport at the college level carefully, but I thought Iowa lost some good pitchers to graduation and MLB draft.

Iowa has come back from decades of less than mediocrity after ISU and UNI gave up scholarship baseball, and after Iowa hired a very good head baseball coach, Rick Heller. He is in approximately his 4th or 5th season.

and they have 2 good kids from the Sioux City area - I went to high school with the Cropley kid's father and uncle - I also know the Neustrom kid's father and uncles
KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- Tyler Cropley's two-run home run in the bottom of the sixth inning sent the University of Iowa baseball team to an 8-6 victory over Oakland on Saturday afternoon at the Sunshine State Classic Series.
NEW ORLEANS -- Junior Cole McDonald pitched seven strong innings to lead the University of Iowa baseball team to an 8-2 victory over New Orleans on Sunday in its All-State Sugar Bowl Baseball Classic finale.
Iowa's offense spotted McDonald an early 4-0 lead, plating two runs in the first and second innings. Senior Tyler Cropley had a two-run double in the first, hitting a line drive to left center field to knock in Robert Neustrom and Kyle Crowl.

Iowa is up to 8-2. I think the level of competition they played so far has not been very high.

Their goal as a program under Coach Rick Heller is to make it back to the College World Series for the 1st time since 1972; it is an achievable goal. Probably will not happen this year.

2013 Indiana, and 1984 Michigan, are the latest Big Ten teams to make it. I was looking at the CWS history, and in the 1950s and 60s the Big Ten won six CWS Championships.

Wichita, Kan. – The Nebraska baseball team (6-5) handed Wichita State its first loss of the season in a 10-9 victory in 10 innings at Eck Stadium on a windy Sunday afternoon. In its last 15 Sunday games, Nebraska is 14-0-1, dating back to the 2016 season.

The Huskers trailed 7-2 after four innings, but battled back before Jesse Wilkening’s go-ahead home run in the 10th inning. NU faced a 9-7 deficit in the ninth inning before Zac Repinski smashed a two-run homer to send the game to extra innings.