Nebraska Baseball

NEBRASKA BASEBALL

The 2000 edition of the Nebraska Baseball program excited its fans throughout the country as they made a legitimate run at the College World Series. The team fell one game short at Palo Alto, California.

Northern California fans were especially proud as we witnessed the three-game series at Stanford's Sunken Diamond in the Super Regional of the NCAA baseball tournament.

Stanford's Sunken Diamond is a great venue for baseball. The entire field is ringed by trees, berms and stands making the setting almost cozy. The constructed stands only extend partway down the outfield lines leaving the slops open for casual seating, or lying.

Visiting Nebraskans were impressed with the clear, pleasant weather commenting on how lucky we have such nice days for the weekend tounament. Our Northern California fans did not tell them that the south end of the San Francisco Bay Area enjoys such weather about 330 days a year.


Sunken Diamond's left field hosts a prime seating picnic area. It's a civilized way to watch baseball.	There was a lot of red in the stands, even if it was two different shades.	The kids had a great time.


Bay Area sports reporters all mentioned Husker enthusiasm	Husker soccer players appointed themselves as cheerleaders for the tournament. And did a great job.	Northern California Husker fans enjoyed cheering for the Red in person.

The Husker baseball team split the first two games with the Stanford Cardinal but fell to the host team on Sunday.

Stanford went on to Omaha and the College World Series where they made a very good showing before just falling short in the final game.

We look forward to the Husker baseball team building on this year. We hope they can host a tournament next year. But if that doesn't happen, we'd settle for a return to Sunken Diamond where we can enjoy them in person.