Season Record (25-7, 6-3 Big 12)
National Rankings (17/19/15 - as of April 13)

This Week
Tues. (April 13) vs. 11/11/10 Wichita State Hawks Field W, 7-4
Fri. (April 16) at Missouri (22-12-1, 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
Fri. - NU (Zach Kroenke, So., LHP, 6-0, 1.94 ERA) vs. MU (Danny Hill, Sr., RHP, 3-2, 4.06 ERA)
Sat. - NU (Justin Pekarek, Sr., LHP, 4-1, 4.28 ERA) vs. Missouri (TBA)
Sun. - NU (Dustin Timm, Jr., RHP, 1-1, 2.29 ERA) vs. Missouri (Garrett Broshuis, Jr., RHP, 6-0, 2.65 ERA)

Media Information
Radio: Pinnacle Sports Network
TV: None
Live Stats: Huskers.com
Internet Video Streaming: None

No. 15 Huskers Head to Missouri this Weekend
Lincoln -- The Nebraska baseball team looks to build on the momentum of Tuesday’s win over No. 10 Wichita State this weekend, as the Huskers travel to Missouri for a three-game series with the Tigers. All three games will be carried on the Pinnacle Sports Network with Gary Sharp calling all of the action, although Saturday’s game will be joined in progress following the Red/White Spring Game.

The Huskers, who are ranked between 15th (Sports Weekly/ESPN) and 19th (Baseball America) in this week’s polls, snapped a two-game losing streak in a 7-4 win over the Shockers in Lincoln on the strength of Alex Gordon’s four-RBI effort. NU picked up its first win over the Shockers since 2001.

At 25-7 on the year, NU now begins a stretch with six of the next seven games on the road, including trips to Missouri and No. 1 Texas next weekend. NU is in third place in the Big 12 with a 6-3 mark, trailing Oklahoma (10-2) and Texas (9-2) in the league race after dropping 2-of-3 against Texas Tech last weekend. The series win by the Red Raiders snapped a streak of 10 straight Big 12 series wins dating back to last March.

The Tigers are 22-12-1 after downing Southwest Missouri State, 5-4, in 10 innings Wednesday evening in Springfield. In league play, Missouri enters the weekend tied with Kansas and Kansas State for eighth place with a 2-7 mark after being swept by Oklahoma last weekend. MU has dropped all three of its league series, picking up wins against Kansas State and Baylor in Big 12 play.

The Tigers lead the all-time series, 127-94, but Nebraska took the season series in 2003 with a pair of come-from-behind wins, overcoming an 8-1 deficit in one game to win 11-9 in 10 innings and scoring three times in the bottom of the ninth to win 7-6 in the finale. In fact, all three wins last season came in the team’s final at-bat. In the team’s last matchup in Columbia in 2002, the Tigers used a pair of late comebacks to erase Husker leads and take the series 2-1.

Following this weekend’s series with MU, the Huskers will host Creighton on Tuesday, April 20th at 6:35 p.m. Prior to the game, each of Nebraska’s winter sport NCAA Champions will be honored in pre-game ceremonies. NU won the first matchup, 7-3 in Omaha last month, and has won six straight against the Bluejays.

Leading Off
• - 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 Huskers rank third nationally in fielding percentage in the first NCAA ranking released Tuesday. The Huskers’ .977 fielding percentage leads the Big 12 and 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 - the longest stretch in at least 20 years - last month.

• - First baseman Curtis Ledbetter has been on a tear since returning to the lineup after a shoulder injury. The first baseman from Lawrence, Kan., is hitting .364 with four homers and 16 RBIs over his last 10 games, raising his season average to .295. He has 33 RBIs, a total that is second only to Alex Gordon.

• - Nebraska, which is second in the Big 12 and 17th nationally in team ERA (3.27 as of 4/12), is the only Big 12 program and one of only nine teams nationally to be ranked in the top-20 nationally in both pitching and defense, joining Long Beach State, Rice, North Carolina State, Oral Roberts, East Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Mississippi.

In fact, eight of the nine teams listed (all but North Carolina State) are ranked in the top-25 in this week’s Baseball America poll, while the Wolfpack are ranked in two of the other three college baseball polls this week.

• - Nebraska’s 25-7 mark through 32 games is the Huskers’ best mark since 1987 (26-6 after 32 games). The 2001 CWS squad also went 25-7 in its first 32 contests.

Scouting Missouri
The Tigers (22-12-1) enter the weekend with some momentum after snapping a six-game losing streak with a 5-4, 10-inning win over SMS on Wednesday. MU returned 14 letterwinners, including seven everyday starters from a team that won 36 games and reached its first regional since 1996. The Tigers jumped out of the gate with a 12-2 mark, including a pair of wins over NCAA Regional qualifier Coastal Carolina and a victory over Washington before cooling off in recent weeks. Under long-time Head Coach Tim Jamieson (308-228-1 in 10 years at Missouri), the Tigers’ strength is on the mound where they are third in the league with a 3.38 team ERA and are walking a league-low 2.44 batters every nine innings. Danny Hill is 3-2 with a 4.06 ERA in nine starts, while Sunday starter Garrett Broshuis is 6-0 with a 2.65 ERA in nine starts. Mark Alexander leads the MU bullpen with five saves and a 1.86 ERA in 16 appearances.

Offensively, the Tigers have three starters batting over .300 and are led by first baseman Cody Ehlers, who is hitting .374 with team highs in homers (11) and RBIs (43).

Missouri leads the all-time series 127-94 in a rivalry that dates back to 1901. NU won 2-of-3 meetings last spring in Lincoln, as the home team has won the past two meetings. From 1999 to 2001, the road team won the regular-season matchup, with NU winning in 2000 while the Tigers won 2-of-3 at Buck Beltzer Stadium in 1999 and 2001.

Last Time Out
Nebraska used a strong performance from third baseman Alex Gordon, who homered and drove in four RBIs in the Huskers’ 7-4 win over No. 10 Wichita State on Saturday. The Huskers closed a 20-game stretch with a 17-3 mark, including a 13-3 mark at Hawks Field.

Tuesday (Nebraska 7, Wichita State 4) – Alex Gordon went 3-for-4 and drove in four RBIs, as No. 15 Nebraska snapped a two-game losing streak with a 7-4 victory over No. 10 Wichita State Tuesday evening. The sophomore third baseman jump started Nebraska’s offense with his 12th homer of the season, a two-run shot in the first, before adding a two-run double in the Huskers’ three-run third, as Nebraska (25-7) posted its 14th straight win over a top-10 team in Lincoln dating back to 1998. The Huskers used homers by Gordon and Curtis Ledbetter, who added a two-run shot in the eighth, to pick up their first win over Wichita State since the 2001 season. Quinton Robertson (4-4) earned the win, scattering eight hits over 5.2 innings of work for his third straight victory, while three relievers held WSU to one run over the final 3.1 innings.