lakesbison
04-02-2006, 10:40 PM
Obviously not at nationwide big as NDSU over Wisconsin... but in the baseball circles it could be classified as very much the same.
Congrats UNC!!
LINCOLN, Neb. - In what can be described as the team's biggest win in over 30 years and biggest since starting the reclassification process back to Division I three years ago, the University of Northern Colorado baseball team topped No. 2-ranked Nebraska 5-2 on Tuesday night at Hawks Field at Haymarket Park.
Nebraska (17-4), ranked No. 2 nationally in the latest National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) poll, had won 13 of their last 14 games overall entering the contest, including six in a row against Northern Colorado (9-16). The victory was just the third all-time for the Bears against the Cornhuskers (who now lead the series 19-3) and first since a 4-2 victory in Lincoln in 1991.
The win was the highest over a Division I ranked team since topping No. 1-ranked Arizona in the 1974 District 7 Playoffs; that win advanced the Bears to its 10th College World Series. Northern Colorado was a Division II baseball team from 1991 until 2003, and began the reclassification process back to Division I in 2004.
The win snapped Nebraska's 33-game non-conference home winning streak and was only the second home non-conference loss for the Huskers since the start of the 2004 season.
Congrats UNC!!
LINCOLN, Neb. - In what can be described as the team's biggest win in over 30 years and biggest since starting the reclassification process back to Division I three years ago, the University of Northern Colorado baseball team topped No. 2-ranked Nebraska 5-2 on Tuesday night at Hawks Field at Haymarket Park.
Nebraska (17-4), ranked No. 2 nationally in the latest National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) poll, had won 13 of their last 14 games overall entering the contest, including six in a row against Northern Colorado (9-16). The victory was just the third all-time for the Bears against the Cornhuskers (who now lead the series 19-3) and first since a 4-2 victory in Lincoln in 1991.
The win was the highest over a Division I ranked team since topping No. 1-ranked Arizona in the 1974 District 7 Playoffs; that win advanced the Bears to its 10th College World Series. Northern Colorado was a Division II baseball team from 1991 until 2003, and began the reclassification process back to Division I in 2004.
The win snapped Nebraska's 33-game non-conference home winning streak and was only the second home non-conference loss for the Huskers since the start of the 2004 season.