This Week in Husker Baseball
Season Record (24-7, 6-3 Big 12)
National Rankings (17/19/15 - as of April 12)
Tues. (April 13) vs. 11/11/10 Wichita State (20-5) Hawks Field 6:35 p.m.
Fri. (April 16) at Missouri (21-12-1, 2-7 Big 12) Columbia, Mo. 6:30 p.m.
Sat. (April 17) at Missouri Columbia, Mo. 2 p.m.
Sun. (April 18) at Missouri Columbia, Mo. 1 p.m.
Note: All rankings are listed as follows: Collegiate Baseball/Baseball America/Sports Weekly-ESPN Coaches

Pitching Matchups
Tues. - NU Quinton Robertson, Sr., RHP, 3-4, 4.65 ERA) vs. WSU (Kyle Banick, Sr., RHP, 1-1, 4.50 ERA)
Fri. - NU (Zach Kroenke, So., LHP, 6-0, 1.94 ERA) vs. MU (Danny Hill, Sr., RHP, 3-2, 4.06 ERA)

Media Information
Radio: Pinnacle Sports Network
TV: None
Live Stats: Huskers.com
Internet Video Streaming: Tuesday’s game will be video streamed live on HuskersNside, which is a subscription-based service of the Nebraska Athletic Department. Nearly every 2004 Husker baseball game will be shown live on HuskersNside. For more information on how to subscribe, log on to Huskers.com.

Huskers Close Homestand With Wichita State
The Nebraska baseball team closes a six-game homestand Tuesday evening when No. 11 Wichita State makes a visit to Hawks Field. First pitch is set for 6:35 p.m. and tickets are available by calling the NU Ticket Office at 800-8-Big Red or at Hawks Field 90 minutes prior to first pitch. The game will be carried on the Pinnacle Sports Network with Jim Rose and Gary Sharp, while the game will also be video-streamed on HuskersNside.

The Huskers, who dipped to 17th in the Collegiate Baseball poll and 19th by Baseball America, look to bounce back after dropping the final two games of the series against Texas Tech over the weekend. It not only marked the first conference series loss since March of 2003, but also snapped the Huskers’ 13 home series winning streak that dated back to 2001.

The Huskers (24-7, 6-3 Big 12) had been on a roll before Saturday, winning nine straight games and 17 of their last 18 before the current two-game losing streak. Tuesday’s matchup between the Huskers and Shockers features two of the top programs in the Midwest. The Shockers come to town with a 20-5 record after a four-game sweep of Illinois State last weekend. This will mark the fourth straight year the teams have met during the regular season, as the Shockers have won the past three meetings, including a 7-5 victory in Wichita last April. WSU leads the all-time series, 19-16 in a series that goes back to 1950.

Following Tuesday’s game, the Huskers, who are in third place in the Big 12 with a 6-3 league mark, will hit the road, playing six of their next seven games away from Hawks Field, including weekend series at Missouri and Texas.

• - The Huskers have been perched in the national polls for the past 77 weeks, dating back to April of 2000. To put that in perspective, the only current Husker to have been on a team that was unranked in his career is fifth-year senior Justin Pekarek, who was redshirting in 2000.

• - The series loss to Texas Tech dampened the Huskers’ blistering start, as NU’s 23-5 record at the midway point was the second-best start in school history. Only the 1983 squad, which opened with a 26-2 start, including a school-record 26 game winning streak, enjoyed a better start than the 2004 Huskers.

• - NU’s current .978 fielding percentage is on pace to break the school record of .971 set in 1994 and 1995. The Huskers are a perfect 14-0 this season when they play errorless baseball and have a pair of stretches of at least 45 innings without an error, including a stretch of 63.1 innings last month.

• - Curtis Ledbetter has been on a tear since returning to the lineup after a shoulder injury. The first baseman from Lawrence, Kan., is hitting .375 with three homers and 14 RBIs over his last nine games, raising his season average to .297.

• - Nebraska is 70-14 (.833) since moving into Hawks Field at the start of the 2002 season, including a 12-3 mark at home

• - The Huskers tossed four consecutive shutouts from March 30 to April 3, marking only the second time in school history that NU has blanked four straight opponents and the first since a four-game stretch in 1977 and 1978. NU had never tossed four straight shutouts in a single season before last week. In fact, the four shutouts nearly equaled all of last season’s total of five.

• - A pair of Huskers were honored last week, as sophomore left-hander Zach Kroenke was named Big 12 Pitcher of the Week on Tuesday after a complete-game one-hitter against Kansas State. The Omaha native followed up with eight innings of one-run ball against Texas Tech on Friday to improve to 6-0 and lower his ERA to 1.94.

On Wednesday, third baseman Alex Gordon was one of four Big 12 players named to the Golden Spikes Watch List. The sophomore from Lincoln enters Tuesday’s game with Wichita State hitting .372 with 11 homers and 45 RBIs. Gordon is third in the league in both homers and RBIs, while topping the Big 12 in slugging (.805) and on-base percentage (.497).