HUSKERS SOFTBALL Recap: HUSKERS 16 Illinois 6

If you follow the UFC at all, you’ve undoubtedly seen one of those knockouts where a dude gets decked and the winner flies over and delivers two or three headshots to the unconscious fighter before the ref can tackle or push him off. It’s one of those things which is part of the sport which is incredibly tough to watch.

What went on in the bottom of the 4th at Bowlin Stadium today was the softball equivalent of that, except if the ref stood across the ring tearing into a pizza for a half hour or so. The inning was actually longer than a half hour. But thirty was the number of minutes which passed from the time Illinois got the 2nd out of the inning till Nebraska’s 15th consecutive batter had…