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Mike<br />
NIHSEN<br />
Senior • #24<br />
RHP • 6-3 • 200 • R/R<br />
Ralston, Neb.<br />
Nebraska<br />
Ralston High School<br />
Single Game Highs<br />
Innings Pitched<br />
7.0 (3/30/08)<br />
Hits<br />
8 (5/22/08)<br />
doubles<br />
5 (5/22/08)<br />
Triples<br />
1 (4x, 3/7/09)<br />
Home Runs<br />
1 (2x, 3/2/08)<br />
Runs<br />
5 (3/7/09)<br />
Earned Runs<br />
4 (2x, 4/15/09)<br />
Walks<br />
4 (3/24/09)<br />
Strikeouts<br />
7 (3/30/08)<br />
Hit Batsmen<br />
2 (2x, 4/15/09)<br />
24<br />
2009 (Junior)<br />
• Finished year seventh in ERA on <strong>Creighton</strong>’s all-<br />
time list with a 3.21 mark.<br />
• Made nine appearances and had seven starts as<br />
team’s primary mid-week starter.<br />
• Won three of his last four outings, posting a<br />
1.72 ERA in those starts.<br />
• Made longest start of season with 5.2 innings of<br />
work against Kansas State (4/30).<br />
• Threw five scoreless innings of relief at Nebras-<br />
ka, his former school, on April 7 for his third win<br />
of the season.<br />
• Pitched his best on the road, going 1-0 with a<br />
3.86 ERA in three appearances.<br />
• Struck out a season-high three, and allowed<br />
a season-low four hits in five innings of work<br />
against North Dakota.<br />
• Did not allow a home run all year.<br />
2008 (Sophomore)<br />
• Led the MVC with a 2.30 ERA.<br />
• Tied for the team lead with 14 games started<br />
on the mound.<br />
• Third on the team with 70.1 innings pitched.<br />
• Second on the team with a .231 opposing batting<br />
average.<br />
• Was unbeaten through his first nine appearances.<br />
• Did not allow more than two earned runs in an<br />
outing through his first 14 appearances.<br />
• Was a Northwoods League All-Star during the<br />
summer.<br />
• Earned his first win of the season at Chicago<br />
State (3/16) by hurling 5.0 innings and striking<br />
out three.<br />
• Had his best start of the season vs. Illinois State<br />
(3/30), throwing 7.0 shutout innings with seven<br />
strikeouts, a season-high.<br />
• Went 5.2 innings without allowing an earned<br />
run vs. Wichita State (4/13).<br />
• Gave up two hits in that outing, one of two<br />
times on the season he allowed two hits or less.<br />
• That outing also started a streak of five consecutive<br />
outings without allowing an earned run,<br />
spanning 24.0 innings.<br />
• Came on vs. Iowa (4/16) for his only relief appearance<br />
of the year, throwing a perfect inning,<br />
striking out one.<br />
• Threw 6.0 scoreless innings vs. Evansville<br />
(4/26), striking out five, without walking a man.<br />
• Had his best road outing of the season at<br />
Southern Illinois on May 3.<br />
• He went 6.1 innings without surrendering an<br />
earned run while striking out six in that game.<br />
• Lost for just the second time in 15 appearances<br />
on the season against Missouri State (5/22).<br />
2010 Bluejay B<br />
aseBall<br />
Player Profiles<br />
<strong>University</strong> of Nebraska (2006-07)<br />
• Appeared in four games as a reliever in 2007<br />
after redshirting his first year with the Huskers<br />
in 2006.<br />
• Logged only 2.1 innings and allowed seven<br />
runs.<br />
• Struck out and walked three batters each.<br />
• Pitched one inning in Nebraska’s NCAA Regional<br />
game against Arizona State (6/3).<br />
• Named to the Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll<br />
in fall 2005 and spring 2006.<br />
Ralston High School (2002-05)<br />
Lettered four seasons in baseball for the Ralston<br />
Rams and head coach Curt Shockey, father<br />
of former CU player Colin Shockey ... Was<br />
a three-time all-state performer ... Recorded a<br />
5-3 record with a 2.27 ERA as a senior, striking<br />
out 68 and walking 20 in 52.1 innings of work ...<br />
Was school’s 2005 Male Athlete of the Year ...<br />
Nominee for the Wendy’s High School Heisman in<br />
2005 for his athletic and academic achievements<br />
... In American Legion play following his senior<br />
season, he hit .452 with seven homers and 36<br />
RBI ... Struck out 14 in a nine-inning one-hitter<br />
against No. 4 <strong>Creighton</strong> Prep as a freshman ...<br />
Also played basketball and football at RHS, earning<br />
all-conference recognition after guiding the<br />
Rams to a Class B state football playoffs in 2004<br />
... Helped his basketball team to state runner-up<br />
finishes in both 2002 and 2003 ... Named to the<br />
honor roll all four years and graduated with high<br />
honors.<br />
Profile<br />
Birthday: November 5, 1986<br />
Parents: Donald and Connie Nihsen<br />
Siblings: Jason and Dustin<br />
Major: Business<br />
Why <strong>Creighton</strong>: Close to home<br />
Favorite Athlete: Pavel Nedved<br />
Favorite MLB Team: Mariners<br />
Did You Know: Was in rodeos at Ak-Sar-Ben<br />
from age 8-12<br />
Nihsen’s Career Pitching Statistics<br />
Year ERA W-L APP GS CG SHo SV IP H R ER BB So<br />
2007 (NU) 27.00 0-0 4 0 0 0 0 2.1 10 7 7 3 3<br />
2008 (CU) 2.30 5-2 15 14 0 0 0 70.1 61 29 18 16 40<br />
2009 (CU) 4.95 3-1 9 7 0 0 0 36.1 41 24 20 19 13<br />
Total 3.72 8-3 28 21 0 0 0 109.0 112 60 45 38 56<br />
2010 <strong>Creighton</strong> BaseBall [19]
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