{"id":5267,"date":"2026-05-24T13:49:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T13:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/michigan-falls-short-of-nebraska-in-big-ten-tournament-6-4\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T13:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T13:49:08","slug":"michigan-falls-short-of-nebraska-in-big-ten-tournament-6-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/michigan-falls-short-of-nebraska-in-big-ten-tournament-6-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan falls short of Nebraska in Big Ten Tournament, 6-4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OMAHA, Neb. \u2014 Nebraska roared onto the field before the game even started.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Cornhuskers jumped out of the dugout for warmups the moment the previous quarterfinal game at Charles Schwab Field Omaha <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S47Pmzx_qlo\">ended<\/a> with a walk-off, just 15 seconds before Friday\u2019s quarterfinal would have been postponed until the morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It took the Michigan baseball team a little while longer to make their way out \u2014 and the contest between the two clubs was a similar story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe were pretty fired up just to know that we were going to play,\u201d Cornhuskers right-hander Carson Jasa said. \u201cI mean, seeing the walk-off was like the game starting for us, because no walk-off, no game tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-1    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The seventh-seeded Wolverines (34-24 overall, 17-13 Big Ten) went run-for-run with No. 2 seed Nebraska (42-14, 23-7) in every inning Friday \u2014 except the first. In a back-and-forth game, Michigan couldn\u2019t keep up with the Cornhuskers late, crashing out of the Big Ten Tournament when its offense failed to find the timely hitting it needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nebraska started off hot with a sharp first inning from Jasa. Cornhuskers first baseman Case Sanderson followed suit in the next frame, putting Michigan in an early hole with a two-RBI triple to the right-field corner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe got the crowd going immediately on the mound, and we got the crowd immediately going at the plate,\u201d Nebraska coach Will Bolt said. \u201cSo we were able to carry that momentum and made it tough on them in some big situations as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the top of the third inning, though, the Wolverines\u2019 lineup came alive. Junior second baseman Colby Turner and sophomore third baseman Brayden Jefferis recorded back-to-back hits before a pair of sacrifice bunts brought Turner home for Michigan\u2019s first run of the game. Redshirt sophomore designated hitter Cade Ladehoff supplemented the small ball with an RBI double to tie the game at two, and suddenly, the Wolverines were knocking at the door.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Cornhuskers quickly answered in the next frame, forcing redshirt freshman right-hander Erik Puodziunas out of the game and regaining the lead with a two-RBI single. With a 4-2 lead, Nebraska was back in the driver\u2019s seat, and Michigan was back to the drawing board.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-2    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s frustrating,\u201d Jefferis said. \u201cYou feel like you pull closer, and then they take a lead and you\u2019re clawing back still. This team\u2019s resilient, really gritty, and there was never a doubt in anyone\u2019s mind that we were going to get that big hit and keep getting guys on base. But it\u2019s just baseball, and they\u2019re a good team, that happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the sixth inning, the Wolverines got the big hit they needed to stay afloat. When Cornhuskers right-hander Carson Jasa hung a curveball over the plate, junior first baseman Matthew Ossenfort took full advantage \u2014 blasting it out of the park for just his second home run of the season. Ossenfort\u2019s shot tied the game at four and put Michigan back within reach, but the Wolverines\u2019 defense needed to hold firm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once again, Nebraska responded. Sanderson rattled a two-out single in the bottom of the seventh inning, capitalizing on a Michigan fielding error to score two runs and retake the lead, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe did it both times, they put up two, we scored two to answer, and that was the difference in the game,\u201d Bolt said. \u201c\u2026 We like to make it dramatic where we can get the two-out RBIs, because it\u2019s an extra backbreaker for our opponent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Wolverines had found a way to respond each time the Cornhuskers powered themselves back in front. But as the game wound down to the final few innings, Michigan\u2019s string of timely hitting came to a screeching halt. Jefferis and redshirt sophomore center fielder Evan Haeger both reached base at the top of the eighth inning, but a pair of strikeouts left the runners stranded and the Wolverines still trailing by two.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-3    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Down to its final three outs, Michigan turned to pinch hitting for the spark it needed to keep its Big Ten Tournament aspirations alive. But the Wolverines\u2019 efforts were too little, too late. Ultimately, they couldn\u2019t break through Nebraska\u2019s bullpen and went three up, three down in the final frame \u2014 sealing a 6-4 loss and an end to their Tournament run.<\/p>\n<aside>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related articles<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OMAHA, Neb. \u2014 Nebraska roared onto the field before the game even started.\u00a0 The Cornhuskers jumped out of the dugout for warmups the moment the previous quarterfinal game at Charles Schwab Field Omaha ended with a walk-off, just 15 seconds before Friday\u2019s quarterfinal would have been postponed until the morning.\u00a0 It took the Michigan baseball [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[515,593,222,1411,594,259,421],"class_list":{"0":"post-5267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-big","9":"tag-falls","10":"tag-michigan","11":"tag-nebraska","12":"tag-short","13":"tag-ten","14":"tag-tournament"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5269,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5267\/revisions\/5269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}