Rhett Stokes scores the winning run and the celebration begins! Unbelievable! This Nebraska Cornhusker team has fought and scratched all season when they are down and have treated their fans to some incredible wins, including some walk-off wins that have made the drive home quite a bit happier.

None of them compare to what happened tonight! Total pandemonium broke out in the bottom of the tenth inning when Mac Moyer laid down a picture-perfect bunch that pitcher Sax Matson threw past first baseman Adrian Lopez toward the rightfield corner. Rhett Stokes, who previously, reached on a walk, never slowed down once he saw the bunt down and charged all the way around the bases to score the winning run.

Oh, what a ballgame! Nebraska 8, USC 7.I’m too embarrassed to tell you how many times I’ve watched this clip in the last hour. https://t.co/RiJU4IyX7e— Corn Nation (@CornNation) April 18, 2026It didn’t start out that way. In fact, casual fans may have left the game before Nebraska got back in the game on this chilly night.

Those who have followed the team all season knew they didn’t dare!Southern Cal’s Mason Edwards is one of the premier pitchers in college baseball this season. He had a 6-0 record and a 1.35 ERA coming into the game. That went along with 95 strikeouts in 53.1 innings pitched.

He was every bit as good as advertised tonight against the Nebraska Cornhuskers. Fortunately for the boys from Lincoln and their dedicated fans, his night was done after seven innings.In fairness to the Cornhuskers, they roughed up Edwards more than he had been up to this point in the season. The eight hits they got off him was the most he had given up all season, and they got a couple of runs in the sixth inning when Case Sanderson led off the inning with a single and scored two batters later on a Jett Buck double.

Drew Grego also doubled to score Buck and after six innings it was 5-2 SC.Keep fighting! 🤘Grego RBI double scores Buck. pic.twitter.com/7bIevuE3nz— Nebraska Baseball (@HuskerBaseball) April 18, 2026The Trojans grabbed those two runs back quickly as scored twice off Kevin Mannell in the top of the seventh on a two RBI single by Kevin Takeuchi.Edwards’ night was over after seven complete innings having struck out 12 Cornhuskers and throwing a total of 105 pitches. Down 7-2, there was a window now for the Cornhuskers, but it was pretty narrow as it was just two innings. Fortunately, Nebraska crashed through that window thanks to some timely hitting, some incredible bounces, and USC errors.After Drew Carey struck out for the third straight time in the game to open the bottom of the eighth, Jett Buck smoked his second double of the game off freshman reliever Gavin Lauridsen.

The rookie seemed a little rattled and walked designated hitter Will Jesske. Drew Grego then reached on a fielder’s choice to put two on with two out. Up came a resurgent Joshua Overbeek who smashed a three-run homer to the right-centerfield berm.

That cut the lead to 7-5.BEEK BARRELL‼️Huskers cut the deficit to 2. pic.twitter.com/PlsC6WTazo— Nebraska Baseball (@HuskerBaseball) April 18, 2026Ty Horn came on to pitch the top of the ninth and sat the Trojans down in order with a strikeout and two ground outs to Carey at shortstop. His fire gave the fans, and his teammates hope for a big ninth inning.Coach Andy Stankiewicz had gone to his closer, Adam Troy, to get the last out of the eighth inning striking out Jeter Worthley. He was set to face the heart of the Nebraska lineup in the ninth, writing the perfect script for the drama that had unfolded.For Case Sanderson and Drew Carey, it was time for the dudes to be dudes.

Both of them were 1-4 on the night and both of them had struck out three times. Both of them are very capable of hitting balls to the gap or over the wall. What happened over the course of the next nine pitches had to be seen to be believed.Sanderson hit a hard grounder back up the middle that skipped off the mound and then hopped into centerfield as SC’s shortstop tried to field it.

He then advanced to second on a wild pitch by Troy. Carey then hit one that the second baseman booted for an error, sending Sanderson to third. They didn’t have big hits, but they put the bat on the ball and Carey represented the tying run.With runners on the corners and no outs, Jett Buck muscled a fly ball to right field that was deep enough to allow Sanderson to tag and score. 7-6 Trojans.Preston Freeman came in to hit in Jesske’s spot and walked.

Freeman, the winning run, was on first base and Carey stood on third. Troy was definitely feeling the pressure at this point and threw yet another wild pitch. Carey crossed the plate and the game was tied!

Freeman hustled all the way to third on the wild pitch and got around the tag to put the winning run 90-feet from the plate. That brought up Overbeek, who had homered the previous inning, to face Troy. Stankiewicz saw his closer struggling and in the middle of the at-bat,