{"id":50976,"date":"2025-05-24T11:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T11:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/50976\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T11:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T11:13:10","slug":"nebraska-softball-wins-game-one-5-2-vs-no-7-tennessee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/50976\/","title":{"rendered":"Nebraska softball wins game one 5-2 vs. No. 7 Tennessee"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nebraska softball (43-13, 17-5 Big Ten) dominated No. 7 Tennessee 5-2<\/a> to win game one of the Knoxville Super Regional. Pitcher Jordy Bahl<\/a> led Nebraska with one hit and two runs. She pitched a complete game and allowed seven hits and two runs. She struck out six and had one wild pitch.<\/p>\n

The Lady Vols (43-15, 15-9 SEC) committed two errors in the fourth inning and gave up three runs. Nebraska took a 5-1 lead and retired SEC Pitcher of the Year, Karlyn Pickens<\/a>, in the fourth.<\/p>\n

Pickens<\/a> gave up four hits, five runs and had seven strikeouts in 3 2\/3 innings. She walked two batters and hit one with a pitch. She committed a throwing error in the fourth to give up a run.<\/p>\n

Nebraska and Tennessee battle again in the best-of-three series on Saturday, May 24 at 4 p.m. CT on ESPN. <\/p>\n

Join HuskerOnline today and get your first week of a premium subscription for just $1!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Huskers strike first and force errors<\/p>\n

Bahl and the Huskers struck fast and early. She hit a lead-off season on her first pitch vs. Pickens. The redshirt junior stole second. Olivia DiNardo hit a single past the shortstop for Bahl to score and for NU to go up 1-0 in the top of the first.<\/p>\n

Catcher Sophie Nugent hit a home run to start the bottom of the second and tie the game 1-1. She had hit six home runs in her last seven at-bats. Emma Clarke crushed a double to left field but was left on base.<\/p>\n

Bahl was walked in the top of the third. Sammie Bland sent a double to right field for Bahl to score from first base. Pickens struck out Ava Kuszak and DiNardo to leave Bland on second. The Huskers went up 2-1.<\/p>\n

All hell broke loose in the fourth inning. Hannah Camenzind hit a lead-off home run. Bahl cracked a routine pop fly to shortstop, but the left fielder dropped the ball. Bella Bacon got home and Lauren Camenzind scored after Pickens overthrew the catcher at home. The Huskers took a 5-1 lead after scoring three in the fourth.<\/p>\n

Tennessee pulled Pickens after giving up four hits and five runs in 3 2\/3 innings. She struck out seven and hit one batter and walked two. Sage Mardjetko took over, but UT continued to struggle. She hit a batter with a pitch and then walked a batter in the fourth. But she settled in and didn\u2019t allow a hit or run in 3 1\/13 innings.<\/p>\n

The Lady Vols added back-to-back singles in the bottom of the fifth. Bahl struck out Fiedler. But a wild pitch helped Veach score from third base. Bahl made a close play at home to try to tag her out, but didn\u2019t get the call. Nebraska challenged the play at home, but it was upheld.<\/p>\n

Bahl wins game one in highly anticipated pitcher match-up<\/p>\n

Bahl and Nebraska got the edge over Pickens in game one.<\/p>\n

The Huskers retired Pickens in the fourth inning after she allowed a home run, a hit by a pitch, a walk and had a throwing error to the catcher that gave up a run in the fourth inning.<\/p>\n

Pickens has now given up six home runs in 190 innings. She had a nation-leading 0.90 ERA before facing the Huskers. <\/p>\n

The good news for Tennessee, Pickens only threw 63 pitches on Friday. She will be ready to go on Saturday. A great pitcher like her rarely has back-to-back poor games. But if needed, Mardjetko settled in wonderfully for UT on Friday.<\/p>\n

Husker offense breaks through<\/p>\n

Nebraska\u2019s offense has struggled in 2025 against great pitches. But they had no problems vs. Pickens.<\/p>\n

Bahl started the offense strong with a lead-off single. The Huskers scored in the first, third and had three runs in the fourth. Tennessee committed two errors in the fourth, and NU capitalized.<\/p>\n

The Huskers recorded four hits but left five runners on base. <\/p>\n

Bland, DiNardo and H. Camenzind had RBI.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Never miss breaking news or another HuskerOnline article again. Click HERE to sign up for HuskerOnline\u2019s Daily and Breaking News Newsletters.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nebraska softball (43-13, 17-5 Big Ten) dominated No. 7 Tennessee 5-2 to win game one of the Knoxville…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,7806,15426,5538],"class_list":{"0":"post-50976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-jordy-bahl-21-papillion-la-vista","10":"tag-karlyn-pickens-22-north-buncombe","11":"tag-womens-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114562518952034543","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}