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Huskers Triumph, Hawkeyes Survive

Huskers Triumph, Hawkeyes Survive

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Nebraska won its second straight and Iowa survived an elimination game on day two of the Big Ten baseball tournament in Omaha.

The Huskers tallied another one-run victory with a 3-2 decision over Michigan State. The second seeded Huskers broke a 2-2 tie with a seventh inning run.

Nebraska will face the winner of Friday’s Iowa-Michigan elimination game on Saturday.

Iowa stayed alive by beating Minnesota 2-1 on Thursday.

The other games saw top seed Indiana best Michigan 5-0 and Illinois eliminate Ohio State 6-5.

Thursday’s crowd of 11,756 was a single day tournament record. The new record two day total is 22,156.