Going into this academic year, we thought the top end of Nebraska’s pitching staff would take a hit, with co-aces Emmitt Olson and Jace Kaminska being drafted into the MLB and closer/stopper Shay Schanaman graduating and signing a contract with the Braves. We then saw the talent Bolt and his new assistants, Rob Childress and Mike Sirianni, seemed to amass to put atop the Haymarket Park mound, and it appeared that the depth should be vastly improved, and maybe getting back to where it was pre-Covid. Game 1 of the fall season seemed to feed that notion.
The game was played over 14 innings, and treated as two 7 inning games by the coaches.