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The Nebraska baseball team celebrates a home run during its win against Niagara in an NCAA Regional elimination game Saturday in Stillwater, Okla. STILLWATER, Okla. — Nebraska players were barely done posing for the winning team photo when they exchanged smiles for straight faces.

They’re not done in the NCAA Tournament yet. The ability — part DNA, part practiced — to shake off a bad result like a sweaty T-shirt was on display again for the Huskers on Saturday afternoon at O’Brate Stadium. This time they refused to dwell on Friday’s defeat and recovered from an early four-run hole Saturday in a 7-5 bounce-back win over Niagara that keeps their season alive for at least one more day.



Two Gabe Swansen home runs, four RBIs from Case Sanderson and a sharp finish from starter Mason McConnaughey made it all possible for the regional 2 seed on a sunny afternoon. NU briefly celebrated win No. 40 — the first time reaching that threshold in a decade and second since 2008 — that sets up another elimination game against the loser between Florida and No.

11 national seed Oklahoma State on Sunday at 1 p.m. “We were able to respond,” Swansen said.

“We’ve been doing that all year,” said Jalen Worthley, who worked three scoreless relief innings for his fifth save. Fourth-seeded Niagara (38-17) heads home winless following its first regional appearance in program history. But the result took a Nebraska comeback tying the second largest in school postseason history in .

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