Hawkins worked the final two innings, earning his first save of the season. Anderson’s relay throw to first base went wide, but Grace was thrown out at second trying to advance on the play ending the inning with Nebraska leading 7-4. Hawkins got out of the sixth, then in the seventh allowed runners on first and second after back to back singles.Ĭreighton’s Jack Grace grounded a ball to Carey at third base, who stepped on the bag for the first out and threw to second for the second out.

Hawkins came in and allowed the bullpen’s only run in the game by hitting a batter with two outs and the bases loaded. Perry left the game with the bases loaded and one out in the sixth.

We swung at the right pitches and we were able to barrel balls up because of it.” Nebraska’s offense finished with eight walks and just two strikeouts on the night against Creighton. Later in the inning, Luke Sartori reached on a fielder’s choice and Casey Burnham worked a two-out walk before Anderson blasted a double to left to put Nebraska ahead 6-4. In the top of the sixth, Ben Columbus led off with a double, then scored when Creighton threw Dylan Carey’s sacrifice bunt attempt into right field. While Nebraska’s pitchers settled things down, Nebraska’s offense was able to tie the game in the fifth on an RBI groundout. Nebraska went to Perry in relief, and the senior came up big, allowing one run on two hits in a season-long 4.1 innings, striking out four and walking three. Nebraska dropped the resumption of its April game with Creighton after surrendering a pair of runs in the eighth inning, and in the night cap, Matthews set the tone for the game, launching a home run to left to lead off the game.Ĭreighton tagged Nebraska starter Michael Garza for three runs in an inning-plus of work, and the Bluejays held a 3-2 lead after two innings. The veteran pitchers, they have to show up and be that every single day for us to be successful.” We need the entire group to be consistently competitive every time out. “(Perry) didn’t get the ball last weekend and didn’t have a good start last weekend and he came back and was competitive today. “We needed some zeroes and we needed some shutdown innings,” Nebraska head coach Will Bolt said on his postgame radio show. The pair combined to throw 8.0 innings of relief and Brice Matthews and Max Anderson each drove in a pair of runs as the Huskers picked up their first win over Creighton since 2019. In Tuesday night’s 7-4 win over Creighton, senior Kyle Perry and sophomore Corbin Hawkins answered the bell. Ahead of the final two weeks of the regular season, Nebraska head coach Will Bolt wanted to see pitchers step up when needed.

The Crimson Cap by Ellen Howard