Nebraska Pounds Creighton 8-1

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Abeita's three-run first inning homer started the barrage
Posted: 10:31 PM May 13, 2008
Last Updated: 12:18 AM May 14, 2008
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Mitch Abeita hit a three-run homer in the first inning and finished with four RBIs and Erik Bird and Casey Hauptman combined on a four-hitter in Nebraska's 8-1 win over Creighton Tuesday night at Rosenblatt Stadium.

Nebraska collected 14 hits against five pitchers. Jake Opitz and Tyler Farst had three hits apiece.

Bird (5-1) worked the first five innings and held the Bluejays to three hits and one run. He walked four and struck out three. Hauptman pitched four innings, allowing one hit and no runs while striking out six.

Greg Hellhake (3-1) took the loss, allowing six hits and five runs in 4 1/3 innings. Hellhake struck out Bryce Nimmo to open the game, but Jake Mort followed with a single and Opitz with a double before Abeita sent a 1-2 pitch over the right field wall for his eighth dinger of the season.

Opitz and Farst had RBI singles and Abeita a sacrifice fly in the fifth as Nebraska opened up a 6-1 lead.

The Huskers (39-9-1) swept the three-game season series over the Bluejays (33-18) this season. NU also beat the Bluejays 4-3 in Lincoln on April 22nd and 16-7 at Rosenblatt on April 23rd.

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Posted by: Brian on May 14, 2008 at 05:29 PM
To Jen. So you won't support anything Creighton because of a couple of drunk idiots sitting next to you. Perhaps you should have taken a look around at theo ther 14,000 drunk idiots wearing red.

Posted by: Ross on May 14, 2008 at 03:27 PM
I talked to several CU "fans" who were bashing NU. I asked them if they Cheered for NU in the fall, and they all said they were huge husker football fans. I just dont get it.

Posted by: Lori on May 14, 2008 at 01:53 PM
Well then Jen, I'm glad you got to witness "Pasting #3". Maybe when Creighton gets their own bar on campus all the drunks will be there watching it on TV instead of ruining it for other people.

Posted by: Jen on May 14, 2008 at 10:32 AM
A friend and I attended the game last night. We sat in seats behind homeplate in the lower bowl. We proudly wore our Husker sweatshirts and looked forward to the so-called "rivalry game". Soon, a group of seven drunken "fans" wearing Creighton shirts sat next to us. We spent the rest of the game listening to their drunken taunts, off-color jokes about the Nebraska players and any fan wearing red. These "fans" were not college-age kids, they were adults. One "fan" in the group even brought his two small boys. I never have and never will support Creighton athletics, I just love the Huskers.

Posted by: Lori on May 14, 2008 at 09:06 AM
My guess is that the game at Rosenblatt enabled a lot of so-called "Husker fans" access to a game they weren't willing to drive to Lincoln for, or who maybe have never even been to a Husker baseball game. You don't see this behavior at Haymarket. Of course, the Creighton fans shown leaving in droves before the end of the game wasn't exactly GOOD sportsmanship, in my opinion...

Posted by: Logan on May 14, 2008 at 08:25 AM
thats alright...i think the majority of the husker baseball fans are only fairweather. I mean where were these people when the husker baseball team was struggling.

Posted by: Anonymous on May 13, 2008 at 11:02 PM
I wish Nebraska's baseball "fans" would be as hospitable as their football fans. I have never in my life seen Nebraskan's taunt the pitchers warming up in the bullpen. Not until this game... Also, taunting Creighton fans for going? That's not only immature, but being a poor sport. I wish the baseball fans (typically from Omaha) would learn something from the football fans... they need to.