Following a 2-1 series win at home over the Maryland Terrapins last weekend the Nebraska baseball team (15-6) will play its next six games on the road, starting with a three-game set at Penn State (8-13) this weekend. The series in University Park, Pa., starts Friday at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park at 5 PM (CT). The teams then meet on Saturday at Noon, before wrapping up the weekend on Sunday at 10 AM.
The series will be the third straight between the two teams in University Park, as the teams also met at Medlar Field in 2017 and 2019. Nebraska finished the 2017 regular season at Penn State and secured the regular-season Big Ten title with a 21-3 win in the series finale.
The Huskers enter the weekend winners in 10 of their last 12 games and sit at the top of the Big Ten standings with a 1/2 game lead over the Michigan Wolverines (15-7). Nebraska is 9-5 away from Lincoln this season, including a 4-2 record in true road games.
The Nittany Lions enter the weekend 11th in the Big Ten with a 8-13 record after they split a pair of games with both Michigan State and Purdue last weekend at the East Lansing Pod. Penn State split a doubleheader with the Spartans on Friday (L, 7-4 & W, 7-3), shutout Purdue on Saturday 11-0 and then lost to the Boilermakers on Sunday, 8-5. Penn State is 2-4 at home this year with series losses to Maryland and Michigan.
The Huskers and Nittany Lions have played just two common opponents so far in 2021, Maryland and Purdue. The Huskers went 5-2 in their seven games against the Terrapins and Boilermakers, while the Nittany Lions posted a 2-3 record in five games.
