Nebraska Doubles Up Creighton 8-4 to Sweep Season Series

TL;DR

Nebraska defeated Creighton 8-4, completing a season series sweep. Cooper Katskee notably improved his performance, crucial for the team's upcoming games.

Key points

Nebraska defeated Creighton 8-4
Nebraska completed a season series sweep
Cooper Katskee showed improved performance
Katskee had struggled in previous starts
The game took place at The Chuck in Omaha

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Cooper Katskee rebounds and leads Nebraska to a sweep of Creighton | Nebraska Athletics

While a number of winning teams, particularly from the southeast and northwest part of the country, cancelled games because they did not want to risk damage to their RPI, Nebraska faced off against rival Creighton for the final game of their season series tonight at The Chuck in Omaha.

Arguably the most positive thing that took place tonight, other than winning the game, was the performance by Cooper Katskee. The transfer from Miami (OH) had really struggled in his most recent starts and had fallen into a frustrating habit of giving up home runs in the first or second inning of each game. To make a run over the next few weeks, this teams needs Cooper Katskee to be good.

Another donut from Katskee keeps the Jays scoreless.

E4 | Nebraska 3, Creighton 0

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Nebraska didn’t waste any time tonight as they posted two runs in the top of the first. Jeter Worthley singled and scored on a Case Sanderson single. Dylan Carey was hit by a pitch and scored on a Drew Grego double.

The Cornhuskers scored again in the second inning as Jett Buck led off with a double, advanced to third on a Rhett Stokes sacrifice bunt, and then scored on a throwing error by the first baseman. Going to the bottom of the second, Big Red was up 3-0.

While the Nebraska offense was methodically putting runners on base and scoring runs, Katskee was perhaps putting together his best start of the second half of the season. Through five innings he only gave up two hits and did not surrender a run. His breaking pitch tonight was very good and he used it effectively. He only had one Bluejay runner reach second base.

The Cornhuskers did heavy damage in the top of the fifth when they sent ten batters to the plate. Jeter Worthley started it off with his second base hit of the night and then Carey walked. With Case Sanderson at the plate, they executed a double steal to put two runners in scoring position.

Sanderson eventually struck out, bringing Drew Grego to the plate. He smacked his second double of the game to score Worthley and Carey. Max Buettenback got hit by a pitch to keep the rally going. That led to a Joshua Overbeek single that scored Grego.