Huskers Hold Off Creighton on Tuesday

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.