Sanderson, No. 19 Huskers Even Series at No. 21 Oregon

Case Sanderson homered twice in No. 19 Nebraska’s 10-8 win at No. 21 Oregon, as the Huskers rallied from a five-run deficit on Saturday afternoon to even the Top-25 series in Eugene, Ore.

Nebraska (27-8, 12-2 Big Ten) scored 10 runs on 15 hits, while Oregon (25-10, 9-5 Big Ten) tallied eight runs on 11 hits and one error.

Every starter in the Husker lineup tallied a hit for the first time since 2024. Sanderson went 3-for-5 with five RBI, with his two homers providing the offensive backbone of the comeback.

Dylan Carey homered and finished 2-for-5 with an RBI, and Jett Buck went 3-for-4 with a double. Mac Moyer had a 2-for-6 day with a triple, Miken Miller reached twice and scored twice, and Joshua Overbeek drove in two runs with a homer. Rhett Stokes and Max Buettenback each added a hit and an RBI, and Jeter Worthley recorded a hit and drew two walks.

Carson Jasa lasted 3.2 innings in the start, allowing five runs on six hits with four strikeouts and four walks. Caleb Clark picked up the win, improving to 2-2 after surrendering a run across 1.1 innings of relief. Ryan Harrahill recorded a pair of outs, and Jalen Worthley gave up one run in 1.1 frames. J’Shawn Unger earned his seventh save of the season with two innings of one-run ball to close it out.

Oregon jumped on the Huskers early, with a pair of two-RBI doubles in each of the first two innings to give the Ducks a 4-0 lead after two. An RBI single in the bottom of the third pushed the Oregon advantage to 5-0.

Nebraska answered in a big way in the fourth, sending 11 batters to the plate and scoring six runs on eight hits in the inning. Sanderson and Carey led off the inning with back-to-back solo blasts to center to make it a 5-2 game. After Buck singled and Miller reached on a fielder’s choice, Overbeek crushed a two-run homer to right to pull the Big Red within 5-4.

Singles from Stokes, Moyer and Je. Worthley loaded the bases, setting up Sanderson’s two-RBI single to left-center field that gave the Huskers a 6-5 lead.

The Huskers added a pair of unearned runs in the fifth to extend the lead to three. Buck was hit by a pitch and came around to score when Miller reached on a throwing error on a sacrifice bunt attempt. Miller made it all the way to third on the throwing error, and Buettenback lifted a sacrifice fly to left field to make it 8-5.

Solo homers in the bottom of the fifth and seventh innings cut NU’s lead to 8-7 with two innings to go.

Sanderson added a pair of insurance runs in the eighth with his second home run of the day, a two-run shot to center that scored Worthley and pushed the lead to 10-7.

Oregon trimmed the Big Red’s lead to two in the bottom of the ninth with an RBI double, but Unger recorded the final two outs via swinging strikeouts to secure the Husker win.

The Big Red looks to claim the series Sunday in the rubber match of the three-game set at 2 p.m. CT on B1G+.