Grego Ties School Record, No. 24 Huskers Complete Sweep of Jays

Drew Grego tied a school record with three doubles as No. 24 Nebraska completed its season sweep of Creighton with an 8-4 win on Tuesday night at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha.

Nebraska (38-14) scored eight runs on 13 hits and set a program record with their 112th hit by pitch of the season, while Creighton (28-22) tallied four runs on seven hits and one error.

Grego finished 3-for-5 with three doubles and three runs driven in, and Mac Moyer drove in two runs and had one hit. Jett Buck was 2-for-5 with a double, while Jeter Worthley and Case Sanderson turned in a two-hit night. Rhett Stokes, Will Jesske and Joshua Overbeek recorded one hit each.

Cooper Katskee picked up the win, improving to 6-2 after allowing three runs on three hits over 5.2 innings with four strikeouts. Jalen Worthley and Caleb Clark combined to record an out. Ryan Harrahill tossed two scoreless frames, while J’Shawn Unger pitched a scoreless ninth to close it out for the Huskers.

Nebraska struck for two runs in the top of the first with Sanderson’s RBI single to right field and Grego’s RBI double to left.

Buck led off the second with a double down the left-field line and later came around to score on an errant throw to extend Nebraska’s lead to 3-0.

The Huskers broke it open in the fifth with a five-run inning, highlighted by a two-RBI double from Grego and a two-RBI single up the middle off the bat of Moyer that capped the outburst and pushed the lead to 8-0.

Creighton scored all four of its runs in the bottom of the sixth to cut the Big Red’s lead in half. A three-run homer to left plated the Bluejays’ first runs of the night, while a bases-loaded walk later in the inning made it an 8-4 game after six innings.

Harrahill and Unger combined to hold the Bluejays to just one hit in the final three innings to clinch Nebraska’s 8-4 win on Tuesday night.

Nebraska closes out the regular season this weekend, as the Huskers travel to take on Minnesota in a three-game set on Thursday-Saturday, May 14-16.