Nebraska secures season sweep over Creighton, taking down Bluejays 5-4 in Lincoln
LINCOLN, Neb. (Courtesy of Nebraska Huskers) – Drew Grego homered and drove in three runs in Nebraska’s 5-4 win against Creighton in front of a season-high crowd of 6,148 fans at Hawks Field at Haymarket Park on Tuesday night. Nebraska (28-9) scored five runs on seven hits and no errors, while Creighton (18-16) totaled four runs on nine hits and an error.
Grego finished 2-for-4 with a homer and three RBI to pace the Big Red. Joshua Overbeek was 2-for-4 with an RBI, and Rhett Stokes added a hit and drove in a run. Dylan Carey reached base three times on walks, while Jeter Worthley and Jett Buck tallied a hit.
Pryce Bender was tagged for three runs on four hits in one inning. Tucker Timmerman picked up the win, improving to 3-1 after allowing one run over two innings of relief. Caleb Clark and Ty Horn combined for four scoreless innings, with Horn surrendering just one hit with two strikeouts in three innings of relief.
J’Shawn Unger earned his eighth save of the season, tossing two innings and allowing one hit with a pair of punchouts. Creighton jumped on the Huskers in the first with a two-run homer and a sacrifice fly to stake the Bluejays a 3-0 lead. A solo shot in the top of the second extended the lead to 4-0.
Nebraska chipped away in the second when Grego homered to right field after a leadoff walk to Preston Freeman, pulling the Huskers within 4-2. The Big Red erased the deficit in the third, sending all nine batters in the lineup to the plate with three runs on three hits. Carey and Buck drew back-to-back walks, setting up Grego’s RBI single up the middle to score Carey.