The opening of conference play was a tale of two very different games.
On a chilly Friday evening, Billie Andrews led off the bottom of the 1st with a 2-run homer which was to be their only scoring while Illini ace Tori McQueen was cruising through the rest of the first six innings. After a 3-run scoring burst in the sixth, Illinois entered the bottom of seven looking to wrap things up.
The Huskers however had other plans. First, it was a Sydney Gray 2-run blast to tie things up. Illinois responded with a Paige Berkmeyer bomb in the top of the 8th.