The senior from Nacogdoches, Texas, belted his fourth and fifth homers of the season and scored three times, as Nebraska improved to 38-17 with its seventh straight win.

Over the last nine games, Seely, who record his first career multi-homer game today, is batting .469 with nine extra-base hits, raising his season average to .329.

“I struggled a lot for the most part of the season,” Seely said. “ It feels good to be contributing right now. I think Coach Van Horn and Coach Anderson have really gone out a limb and stuck with me. I really appreciate it and maybe now it is paying dividends.”

The Huskers jumped to a 4-0 lead off Louisiana Tech starter Casey Blalock in the bottom of the first. With runners on first and second, Jed Morris ripped an RBI single to right, scoring Jeff Leise, who opened the game with a single, for the Huskers first run. RBI singles by Matt Hopper and Drew Anderson gave NU a 3-0 lead before Blalock uncorked a wild pitch to plate NU’s fourth run of the inning.

Nebraska’s early output would be more than enough, as left-hander Jamie Rodrigue fired six scoreless innings to improve to 7-3 on the season. The left-hander from St. Clair., Mo., was sharp, scattering five hits and striking out four Bulldogs in picking up his second straight win.

“I felt like I had a little pop on my fastball and on my off-speed pitches,” Rodrigue said. “I was able to have movement on those. I definitely felt in control of the game.”

While Rodrigue and relievers Steve Hale and Mike Sillman held the Bulldogs (21-33) to one run on eight hits, the Huskers used the long ball for their final three runs. In the fourth, Seely’s first homer of the day gave NU a 5-0 advantage before Jed Morris crushed his Big 12-leading 20th homer of the season off Blalock, who allowed six runs on six hits to fall to 8-8 on the season, in the sixth. Morris, who had three hits and scored twice, became the first husker in school history to have 20 homers and 20 doubles in the same season and leads the Big 12 with 70 RBIs.

Louisiana Tech cut the NU lead to 6-1 in the seventh on an RBI double by Brandon Haygood that scored Jody Wood with the Bulldogs’ lone run. Haygood and Cullen Simmons, who went 3-for-4 combined for five of Louisiana Tech’s eight hits.

Seely then capped the afternoon with his second homer of the afternoon, a solo shot to center off reliever Mike Lacy in the eighth.

Nebraska Coach Dave Van Horn believes the Huskers are peaking at the right time heading into next week’s Big 12 Tournament in Arlington, Texas.

“I think we are finally feeling like we have a chance to rattle off some wins,” Van Horn said. “We felt that we got through that Friday night game a week ago Friday with that big two-out comeback in the bottom of the ninth. We felt like we could go on a roll. It all started with that Sunday win down in Texas.”

Nebraska will conclude the regular season Sunday afternoon at 1:05 p.m., as left-hander Brian Duensing (4-1, 4.29 ERA) will take the hill for the Huskers. Seniors Jeff Blaesing, Jeff Blevins, Will Bolt, Brandon Eymann, Shane Komine, J.D. Scholten and Justin Seely will all be honored in pregame ceremonies.

Notes: Will Bolt tied Darin Erstad’s (1993-95) school record of 261 career hits with an infield single in the fifth inning, as the senior from Conroe, Texas, slid headfirst to beat the throw. The play earned Bolt, who extended his hit streak to 10 games, a standing ovation from the crowd of 4,423 in attendance…Bolt now holds or shares school record for hits, doubles, games played, games started, at-bats, sacrifice flies and assists

Source: University of Nebraska Athletic Dept.