Huskers Roll to Midweek Sweep

Nebraska plated four runs in the first inning and never looked back, clinching a midweek sweep of Wichita State with a 10-1 win over the Shockers on Wednesday afternoon at Eck Stadium in Wichita, Kan.

Nebraska (16-5) scored 10 runs on 14 hits, while Wichita State (15-8) totaled one run, three hits and three errors.

Jeter Worthley led the Big Red with a 3-for-5 performance that included two doubles and four runs scored. Case Sanderson went 2-for-5 with a double and three RBI, and Dylan Carey finished 2-for-5 with two RBI and two runs scored. Drew Grego homered and drove in two runs, and Jett Buck added two hits and an RBI.

Rhett Stokes turned in a two-hit afternoon, while Mac Moyer and Max Buettenback tallied one hit apiece.

Pryce Bender tossed four innings, allowing one run on three hits with three strikeouts and two walks. Tucker Timmerman earned his first win of the season with two scoreless innings, and Chase Olson, Jace Ziola, Grant Cleavinger and Ryan Harrahill combined to retire the final 16 WSU batters faced.

Nebraska wasted no time jumping on the Shockers in the first. Moyer walked and Worthley was hit by a pitch before Sanderson singled to left-center to score Moyer. Buck followed with an RBI single to plate Worthley, and Carey reached on a fielder’s choice to score Sanderson.

After Grego reached on catcher’s interference and Joshua Overbeek drew a walk to load the bases, Trey Fikes was hit by a pitch to bring home Carey and give the Huskers a 4-0 lead in the opening inning.

Carey’s RBI single after a leadoff single from Worthley in the top of the second pushed the lead to 5-0, and Worthley scored on a wild pitch after reaching on a leadoff double in the fourth to make it a 6-0 game.

The Shockers plated their lone run of the afternoon with a two-out double down the right-field line after a full-count walk to trim NU’s lead to 6-1 through four innings.

Grego added some insurance for the Husker offense with a two-run homer to center field in the seventh to extend the lead to 8-1. Moyer singled and Worthley doubled to begin the eighth inning with runners on second and third, setting the table for Sanderson’s two-RBI double to right-center field that stretched the Big Red’s lead to 10-1.

Ziola retired the Shockers in order in the bottom of the eighth, while Cleavinger and Harrahill teamed up in the bottom of the ninth to quiet the Shockers and clinch Nebraska’s 10-1 win on Wednesday afternoon.

Nebraska returns to Big Ten play with a three-game series at Michigan on Friday-Sunday, March 20-22 in Ann Arbor, Mich.