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No. 2 seed Nebraska defeated No. 6 seed Purdue 6-2 during Wednesday night’s Big Ten baseball tournament matchup. The Huskers scored four runs in the second inning in what would eventually be the difference in the final score. During his mid-game interview, Nebraska head coach Will Bolt identified Gabe Swansen‘s 12-pitch at-bat to begin the second inning as the moment that the tides shifted in Nebraska’s favor. “I was leading off the inning so I was just trying to do whatever I could to help the team out by getting on base and I ended up being a pretty long AB,” Swansen, who flipped his bat in …