No. 19 Nebraska improved to 7-0 in midweek games with a 6-5 victory over Creighton on Tuesday night in Omaha.

Nebraska (23-6) scored six runs on 10 hits and an error, while Creighton (13-13) totaled five runs, six hits and an error.

Mac Moyer drove in three runs on a 1-for-5 night, and Dylan Carey went 2-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored. Jett Buck finished 2-for-5 with a double and an RBI, and Drew Grego added a hit and an RBI. Case Sanderson went 2-for-5, while Jeter Worthley doubled and Joshua Overbeek tripled and scored a run.

Gavin Blachowicz improved to 3-1 on the season, tossing four shutout innings on two hits with two strikeouts. Caleb Clark surrendered four runs in one inning, and Pryce Bender allowed two run on two hits in an inning of work.

Chase Olson and J’Shawn Unger combined to hold Creighton scoreless over the final three innings. Unger earned his fourth save of the season, striking out a pair of batters with no hits allowed.

Nebraska wasted no time building a lead in the second. Buck reached on a first-base error and Buettenback was hit by a pitch before a wild pitch moved both runners into scoring position. Grego singled to left to score Buck, and Moyer followed with a two-RBI single through the left side to score Grego and Buettenback and give the Huskers a 3-0 lead.

Carey was hit by a pitch in the third, stole second and scored on Buck’s RBI double to right-center to push the lead to 4-0.

Carey’s sacrifice fly in the fifth scored Je. Worthley, who had doubled to lead off the inning, to make it 5-0. Overbeek tripled to left in the sixth and scored on Moyer’s RBI groundout to extend the lead to six.

Creighton rallied for five runs in the bottom of the sixth to make it a one-run game. A pair of two-run doubles brought the Bluejays within two runs, while an RBI single through the right side with two outs pulled CU within 6-5 after six innings.

Olson and Unger held the fort from there to give the Big Red a one-run victory. Olson retired the Bluejays in order in the seventh, and Unger worked around an error and a walk in the bottom of the ninth to preserve Nebraska’s 6-5 win on Tuesday night.

Nebraska returns to Big Ten play this weekend, as the Huskers welcome Penn State to Lincoln for a three-game series on Friday-Sunday, April 3-5.

Huskers Claim In-State Battle Over Bluejays

The No. 8 Nebraska softball team scored runs in each of the final three innings on Tuesday night and defeated the Creighton Bluejays, 8-2, in Omaha, Neb.

With the win, NU improved to 27-6 on the season, while Creighton fell to 18-19.

Kacie Hoffmann was 2-for-4 with a homer to key the Husker offense, while Ava Kuszak added three RBIs and the top three of the order in Jordy Frahm, Hannah Coor and Hannah Camenzind all had two hits. Lauren Camenzind contributed a double for NU.

Alexis Jensen (14-2) grabbed the win in the circle. She threw four innings with only one hit, no runs and seven strikeouts. Kylee Magee got the start for the Big Red and threw three innings with two hits and two runs.

Frahm opened the game with a single, before Hannah Coor walked and H. Camenzind singled to score Frahm. A Kuszak double sent Coor home to make the score 2-0 Big Red.

Creighton evened the score with a two-run homer in the bottom of the second.

Frahm singled in the top of the fifth and scored on a Bluejay error.

In the top of the sixth, Hoffmann singled through the right side and Kennadi Williams, who pinch ran, advanced to second on a Samantha Bland bunt and scored on a L. Camenzind double. Bland crossed the plate on a Frahm foul sacrifice fly before a Coor single to center field sent L. Camenzind home. Another foul sacrifice fly scored Coor, who went to third on a H. Camenzind double to make the score 7-2.

Hoffmann added a run in the top of the seventh on a solo shot to seal the 8-2 victory.

The Huskers will return home to Bowlin Stadium for a three-game series against Rutgers this weekend. Game one on Friday, April 3, is set for 5 p.m. (CT) and will be televised on the Big Ten Network. The contest can also be heard across the Huskers Radio Network.

Notes

The Huskers have now scored 4+ runs in 22 innings this year.
Nebraska has won 24 of its last 26 games and 16 of its last 17.
The Big Red finished the month of March with a 13-1 record.
The Huskers moved to 7-1 in true road games this year.

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