Dylan Carey went 4-for-4 with a homer and four RBI and became Nebraska’s all-time career doubles leader in No. 24 Nebraska’s 12-4 win against Indiana on Sunday afternoon at Hawks Field at Haymarket Park.
Nebraska (22-6, 8-1 Big Ten) scored 12 runs on 16 hits, while Indiana (10-17, 3-9 Big Ten) totaled four runs, nine hits and two errors.
Carey’s four-hit performance led an NU offense that saw six different Huskers turn in multi-hits. Rhett Stokes went 3-for-5 with three RBI and two doubles, and Joshua Overbeek finished 3-for-4 with a triple and three runs scored.
Mac Moyer was 2-for-5 with two RBI and two runs scored, and Jett Buck had a 2-for-4 afternoon with a homer and two RBI. Jeter Worthley added two hits with a double and a run scored.
Cooper Katskee improved to 4-0 on the season, striking out five batters across six innings while allowing three runs on six hits. Tucker Timmerman worked two innings before Grant Cleavinger closed out the ninth.
Indiana grabbed a 2-0 lead in the first behind three hits, including an RBI double and an RBI single.
Nebraska answered with a run in the second when Overbeek singled and scored on Stokes’ RBI single to center. The Huskers tied it in the fourth when Overbeek tripled to left-center and scored on Stokes’ RBI double down the left-field line to make it 2-2.
Buck put Nebraska in front for the first time on Sunday afternoon with a 392-foot solo blast to left field that gave the Big Red a 3-2 advantage in the bottom of the fifth.
The Hoosiers responded immediately with a solo homer of their own to lock the game at three in the top of the sixth inning.
Worthley gave the Huskers the lead for good with a two-out double down the right-field line that allowed Moyer to score from second.
The Huskers put the game away with eight runs in the seventh to blow the game open at 12-3. Carey double to left-center field to open the inning, becoming the program’s all-time career doubles leader with his 57th double. Buck began the scoring in the inning with an RBI single that brought home Carey, and Stokes lined a two-RBI double to score Overbeek and Buck.
Moyer followed with a two-RBI single to score Stokes and Overbeek, while Worthley singled and Case Sanderson was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Carey capped the inning with a 405-foot grand slam to left-center field that pushed the lead to 12-3.
Indiana added a run in the eighth, but Cleavinger held the Hoosiers scoreless in the ninth as Nebraska completed its sweep of the Hoosiers.
Nebraska travels to Omaha on Tuesday, March 31, as the Huskers take on Creighton in a midweek matchup at Charles Schwab Field.
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