Drew Grego recorded his second consecutive three-hit game and Joshua Overbeek drove in three runs in No. 24 Nebraska’s 12-7 win at Minnesota in Thursday’s series opener at Siebert Field in Minneapolis.
Nebraska (39-14, 21-7 Big Ten) scored 12 runs on 15 hits and no errors, while Minnesota (30-21, 11-17 Big Ten) tallied seven runs on eight hits and one error.
Grego went 3-for-5 with a double, and RBI and two runs scored, and Overbeek was 2-for-5 with a double, three RBI and two runs scored. Mac Moyer finished 2-for-4 with a double and two RBI, while Jeter Worthley drove in two runs on a 1-for-3 afternoon.
Dylan Carey doubled and drove in a run, and Case Sanderson and Trey Fikes turned in two-hit performances. Rhett Stokes and Will Jesske recorded one hit each.
Carson Jasa allowed four runs over 4.2 innings in a no-decision. Colin Nowaczyk picked up the win, improving to 3-1 after retiring the key batter he inherited in the fifth. Tucker Timmerman tossed three solid innings, allowing one runs, and Pryce Bender closed out a scoreless ninth.
Nebraska grabbed a 1-0 lead in the top of the third with Moyer’s RBI double to right-center field after Fikes led off the inning with a single and advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt from Stokes.
Minnesota responded with two runs in the fourth and two more in the fifth to take a 4-1 lead heading to the sixth.
The Huskers erupted in the sixth, sending 12 batters to the plate and scoring seven runs on six hits. Carey doubled home two, Sanderson singled home another, and Overbeek singled in a run before Moyer was hit by a pitch to force in another. Worthley then laced a two-run single through the left side to cap the seven-run frame and put Nebraska ahead 8-4.
A two-RBI double from the Gophers in the bottom of the sixth trimmed the Big Red’s lead in half going to the seventh inning.
Grego and Overbeek doubled home runs in the seventh to push the lead to 11-6, and Stokes added an insurance RBI single as Nebraska stretched its lead to six.
An RBI groundout in the bottom of the seventh pulled the Gophers within five, but Timmerman and Bender held the Gophers scoreless over the final two innings to secure the win.
Nebraska and Minnesota continue the series tomorrow at 5 p.m. on BTN.
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