Bottom Three Batters Lead Nebraska to 5-4 Win Over Creighton

Freshman Drew Grego has another big night at the plate. | Nebraska Athletics Looking to get back in the win column and the fact that the rival Creighton Bluejays were coming to town provided all of the motivation Nebraska needed in the second game of their three-game season series at Haymarket Park. Pryce Bender got the start against the boys from Omaha, but his night ended up being much shorter than anyone hoped.

He struggled to get the ball low in the zone and thus gave up four hits and three runs in the one inning he pitched. Most significant was a two-run homer to Nate McHugh that gave the Jays a quick 2-0 lead. The Jays tacked on another run to make it 3-0 after a half inning.

Tucker Timmerman came in for the second inning from Nebraska. With one out, Bluejay Nick Venteicher smacked a no-doubter solo homer to put Creighton up 4-0. The story of the game tonight was the bottom third of the lineup making its return.

After struggling over the weekend, Grego, Overbeek, and Stokes were the difference in the game tonight as they were responsible for all five of the Cornhusker runs. In the bottom of the second, designated hitter Preston Freeman led off the inning with a walk and scored when Drew Grego hit an opposite way home run off starter Mac McClellan to cut the Bluejay lead in half, 4-2. 🔥 2-run HR 🔥 RBI Single 🔥 1 Run Drew Grego's huge performance so far has @HuskerBaseball back on 🔝 of Creighton 😤 pic.