Kubat silences Scarlet Knights
 Kubat |  Headley |  Darby |
Kubat went a career-high 8.0 innings to improve to 3-0 on the year, giving up one run on four hits. The Creighton Prep product faced more than four batter in an inning just once and retired the Scarlet Knights in order four times.
Dylan Vogt closed out the game in the ninth to pick up his seventh save of the season and secured Nebraska's 20th win of the year.
With no midweek games this week due final exams, the Huskers return to the field next weekend for a three-game Big Ten series with Indiana.
The Huskers (20-23, 11-4 Big Ten) and Hoosiers open the series Saturday at 6:05 p.m. in front of a national television audience on the Big Ten Network. The series continues Sunday at 1:05 p.m. and Monday at 12:05 p.m.
The bottom of Nebraska's order did the most damage, as the 6-7-8-9 hitters produced five of NU's eight hits, including a pair of hits and an RBI each from sophomores Blake Headley and Austin Darby. No. 9 hitter Tanner Lubach also added an RBI.
Nebraska struck first in the bottom of the second, starting with Kash Kalkowski's 18th HBP of the season. With Kalkowski running on the pitch, Headley blasted his fifth double of the season into the left-center field gap, with Kalkowski coming all the way around to score to the game's first run. Darby then worked a full count, and on the sixth pitch of the at bat he lined a single to right field that scored Headley. Darby moved into scoring position on a groundout by Bryan Peters and put the Huskers ahead 3-0 when he scored on a two-out single off the bat of Lubach.
It would be the only runs Nebraska would need, as Kubat retired nine straight until Nick Favatella worked a one-out walk in the fourth.
Rutgers plated a run in the top of the fifth, starting with a leadoff double from Jeff Melillo. Kubat got consecutive groundouts and was in position to strand Melillo at second, but Bill Hoermann came through with a two-out RBI single, cutting Nebraska's lead to 3-1.
Kubat allowed just one base runner over the next three innings, a one-out single by Pat Sweeney in the eighth, before Vogt took over in the ninth.
Vogt gave up a leadoff single to Vinny Zarrillo, but then got three consecutive groundouts to secure the win.
R H E ------------------------------------------- Rutgers............. 000 010 000 - 1 5 0 Nebraska............ 030 000 00X - 3 8 0 -------------------------------------------