Will the “real” Nebraska baseball team please stand up?

Husker fans are hoping the team that showed up Sunday in Nebraska’s third game at the Amegy Bank College Baseball Series in Arlington, Texas, the one that defeated Florida State 10-1, is the “real” one.

The Huskers stood up with a 10-hit attack, led by Dylan Carey, who was 3-for-5 with a double, an inside-the-park home run and five runs-batted-in. “I’m proud of Dylan Carey for how he kind of responded today,” Coach Will Bolt said on the Huskers Radio Network.

Bolt was referring to Saturday’s 5-3 loss to Kansas State, in which Carey was 0-for-4 with two strikeouts. In Friday’s opener, a 4-2 loss to Louisville, he was 3-4 with a double and home run.

Bolt was also proud of Sunday’s pitching. Starter Gavin Blachowicz and relievers Colin Nowaczyk and Cooper Katskee allowed only two hits, walked three and struck out 14.

Blachowicz earned his second victory in as many career starts at Nebraska. “He suffocated the strike zone,” Bolt said, “just looked like a veteran out there.”

Blachowicz allowed one hit, a home run, but struck out six in five innings.

It was redemption, of sorts, for Nowaczyk, who lasted one inning in a start against Stanford Monday, allowing five hits and six runs. Sunday, he pitched two hitless innings, striking out the first four batters he faced. He got the next batter, and walked the sixth — whom the Huskers later picked off trying to steal.

Katskee pitched two one-hit innings, striking out four, in his first appearance as a Husker.

Nowaczyk had a “huge bounce back from last week and (it was) good to see Katskee roll out there and get a couple of zeroes,” said Bolt. Katskee didn’t pitch the opening series because of health issues.

Ty Horn started the Louisville game, allowing five hits and one earned run in five innings. Carson Jasa started the Kansas State game, pitching 5.2 innings, striking out eight, allowing three earned runs on two hits, four walks and a hit batter. Relievers Caleb Clark and J’Shawn Unger were charged with the losses.

Carey’s two-run double followed Joshua Overbeek’s sacrifice fly to give the Huskers a three-run lead in the top of the first inning against Florida State, which entered the weekend ranked 16th nationally. The Seminoles had suffered their only loss against Auburn Saturday.

Carey set the tone, “picking up some big hits for us,” Bolt said. He also had an RBI single in the third and the two-run, inside-the-park home run in the seventh.

“The sixth, seventh and eighth innings hadn’t been kind to us this weekend,” said Bolt.

The Huskers led the opener against Louisville, ranked 15th going into the weekend, 2-0 going into the bottom of the fifth and Kansas State 3-1 after five but didn’t score in either after the fifth.

Nebraska had eight hits but left 10 on against Louisville and managed only four hits against Kansas State, including a pair of singles by Mac Moyer and doubles by Jalen Worthley and Case Sanderson. Moyer batted lead-off in all three games, starting two in centerfield, one in right.

“We kind of left some things out there the first two games, in the early-going, and we didn’t allow that to happen today,” Bolt said.

The difference Sunday, offensively, was the Huskers just took “better, more committed swings. That’s what we saw the first weekend, was whether you go down in flames or … to just want to make sure you’re doing it with full conviction,” said Bolt.

The committed swings had “more slug,” he said.

Whatever the reasons, Nebraska snapped a three-game losing streak that began with the 11-6 loss to Stanford in Scottsdale, Arizona. Next up for the Huskers is a three-game series at Auburn.

The Tigers, ranked ninth going into the weekend, went 3-0 in Arlington.

The question is, will the “real” Huskers make the trip south?