JACKRABBITS FALL TWICE TO OMAHA

Saturday, April 10

Brookings, S.D.

11 a.m.

South Dakota State University

7-18, 2-7

Omaha

11-14, 6-3

Omaha

South Dakota State

Photo by: GoJacks.com

4/10/2021 7:45:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score 1 Box Score 2

Omaha spoiled South Dakota State's baseball home opener with a doubleheader sweep Saturday afternoon at Erv Huether Field.

The Jackrabbits fell to 7-19 overall and 2-8 in Summit League play while the Mavericks improved to 12-14 and 7-3 in conference play.

GAME 1: OMAHA 2, SDSU 1
Both starting pitchers had not allowed a run in their first five innings of work until Omaha's Chris Esposito hit a solo home run to right field in the top of the sixth inning for the game's first run.

The Jacks evened the score in the bottom of the seventh. The first three batters of the inning reached base safely to load the bases, and Owen Bishop's fielder's choice brought in the run. After in Omaha pitching change, two flyouts ended the inning and stranded two runners on base.

Omaha took a 2-1 lead on another Esposito hit, this time an RBI single up the middle, but reliever Eli Sundquist was able to leave the runner at third to end the inning. The Mavericks set the Jackrabbit offense down in order in the final two innings to secure the win.

Adam Mazur fell to 2-4 on the season despite a seven-inning, 11-strikeout performance. Sundquist struck out three batters in two innings of relief.

The Jacks were held to just four hits, which included one extra-base hit on Drew Beazley's fifth-inning double.

GAME 2: OMAHA 10, SDSU 5
Omaha capitalized on an SDSU error in the first inning with two consecutive hits to take a 1-0 lead. Two more runs followed in the second inning as Masen Prososki's single to right field scored two to stretch Omaha's lead to 3-0. Drew Beazley's RBI double, followed by Garrett Stout's run-scoring single in the bottom of the second trimmed the Maverick lead to 3-2.

Omaha added two more runs in the top of the fifth on an RBI single and bases-loaded walk to make it 5-2.

An RBI single by Brett Bonar and a two-run home run by Ryan Doran put the Mavericks up 8-2 in the top of the sixth.

After Omaha scored another run in the top of the eighth, consecutive SDSU singles, a wild pitch and a walk set up a Carson Max RBI single in the bottom half of the eighth. The second wild pitch of the inning scored Wyatt Andersen to trim State's deficit to 9-4. Each team scored a run in the ninth inning, but Omaha's lead was enough to get the win.

Cody Carlson tossed four and 1/3 innings, struck out five batters, walked four and allowed three earned runs. Luke Ira went 3-for-3 with three hits, a walk and an RBI double in the ninth. Max, Beazley and Stout each drove in a run on one hit.

GAME NOTES

The two teams combined for eight errors in the doubleheader.
Omaha leads the all-time series, 91-81-1, and has taken five of the six games in the season series.
Adam Mazur struck out 10+ batters for the second time this season. Mazur has gone at least five innings in four consecutive starts.
Jess Bellows saw his five-game hitting streak come to an end in Saturday's second game, but extended his on-base streak to six.
This was the first game action at Erv Huether Field since May 11, 2019

UP NEXT
South Dakota State and Omaha conclude the regular season series Sunday with a doubleheader starting at noon. A seven-inning game will be played first, followed by a nine-inning contest.

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