The 64-team field for the NCAA Division I baseball tournament was set yesterday, and the Cinderella run of the Creighton Blue Jays will continue in Los Angeles. The Blue Jays, surprise winners of the Missouri Valley Conference tournament, are the fourth seed in the UCLA region. They’ll match up with the Bruins, who are the number two national seed, in their tournament opener on Friday night. Creighton is making their second consecutive appearance in the NCAA tournament, and their tenth appearance overall. They are one of two teams who qualified for the national tournament with a losing record. The Blue Jays entered their conference tournament as the eighth overall seed, but swept through with a 4-0 record, beating Missouri State in the championship game. Missouri State and Indiana State also qualified to the tournament from the Valley.

The Husker baseball team lived to fight another day at the Big Ten tournament after a 12-3 victory over Penn State in an elimination game yesterday in Columbus, Ohio. Nebraska broke the game open with three runs in the fifth inning and five more runs in the sixth, part of an 18-hit attack on the afternoon. Pat Kelly had four of those hits and drove in five runs. Richard Stock contributed three hits and three RBI to the cause, and Chad Christensen had two hits and drove in two. On the mound, Ryan Hander worked six and a third strong innings, allowing just two runs on seven hits while striking out seven. The Huskers take on Ohio State in another elimination contest this afternoon, with Dexter Spitsnogle tabbed to start on the mound. First pitch is set for 11:05. If Nebraska wins, they will play Michigan State immediately following.

The Colorado Rockies open a three-game series in Cincinnati against the Reds tonight. The Rockies have slumped through a miserable May that has seen them lose 16 of 20 games. But the team hopes to have turned a corner after their last game, an 8-4 victory over the Marlins in Miami that snapped a six-game losing streak. Troy Tulowitzki homered twice and drove in seven runs in the three-game series as he tries to snap out of a personal month-long slump. Tonight, the Rockies send Christian Friedrich to the mound for his fourth career start. The lefty gave up eight earned runs in his last outing Saturday against Seattle, his first start at Coors Field. Cincinnati counters with their ace, Johnny Cueto. ESPN Radio 1410 has all the action tonight, with pregame coverage at 5:30 and the first pitch scheduled for 6:10.

A furious ninth-inning rally came up just short for the Husker baseball team in the first round of the Big Ten tournament, as they fell to Michigan State 10-9. Trailing 10-2 into the ninth inning, Nebraska scored seven times, including five two-out runs, and had the tying run at third base. But Kale Kiser’s line drive was caught at second base to end the game. The Huskers must battle through the loser’s bracket of the double elimination tournament, starting with today’s game against Penn State. First pitch from Columbus, Ohio is set for 11:05.

The embattled Colorado Rockies snapped a six-game losing skid last night with an 8-4 win over the Miami Marlins. In the first two games of their three game series in Miami, the Rockies took big early leads only to watch them slip away. Last night the script was flipped, as the Marlins took a 3-0 lead after two innings, only to see the Rockies score three times in the fourth to tie the game. Miami regained the lead with a run in their half of the fourth, but in the fifth the Rockies got an RBI single by Carlos Gonzalez and a three-run homer from Troy Tulowitzki to take the lead for good. Tulowitzki drove in four runs in total, giving him seven for the series. Alex White worked six strong innings for his first victory of the season. The Rockies are off today, traveling to Cincinnati, where they’ll open a weekend series against the Reds on Friday night.

St. Patrick’s Jared Arensdorf finished in a tie for eighth place at the Class C state golf tournament in Kearney. Arensdorf’s two-day score of 155 led the Irish to a 12^th place finish as a team. In the Class A tournament in Lincoln, North Platte’s Matt Schartz finished with a two-day total of 172. At the Class D tournament at Rivers Edge Golf Course, Sutherland’s Riley McConnell had a two-day tally of 211.

Denver Nuggets forward Kenneth Faried was named to the NBA’s All-Rookie team. A first-round pick from Morehead State, Faried led all NBA rookies in rebounding, at 7.7 boards per game, and field goal percentage, at 58.6 percent. He averaged 10.2 points per game. Faried was third in the All-Rookie Team voting, behind Cleveland’s Kyrie Irving and Minnesota’s Ricky Rubio.

The Husker baseball team opens Big Ten tournament play this afternoon with a matchup against Michigan State in Columbus, Ohio. The Huskers enter the postseason as the top offense in the Big Ten, and they take on a Spartan team who led the Big Ten in ERA. Kyle Kubat looks for his fourth win in as many starts for the Huskers on the mound. First pitch is set for 11:05.

Eight Nebraska baseball players earned All-Big Ten honors on Tuesday Shortstop Chad Christensen, outfielder Rich Sanguinetti and designated hitter Michael Pritchard, who all earned first-team honors. Third baseman Josh Scheffert was the Huskers’ lone second-team pick. First baseman Richard Stock, second baseman Pat Kelly and starting pitcher Kyle Kubat were all third-team selections. Kelly and Kubat were also named to the All-Big Ten Freshman team, along with outfielder Austin Darby. Catcher Cory Burleson was honored as the team’s Sportsmanship Award Honoree.