The Nebraska baseball team held its opening game of the annual Red-White Series on Monday afternoon, with the White squad picking up a 7-3 win in seven innings at Hawks Field at Haymarket Park.
White had seven runs on 11 hits and an error, while Red scored three runs on five hits and committed an error.
Ty Horn earned the win on the mound after allowing three runs on three hits with three strikeouts and two walks in 3.1 innings. Kyle Froehlich tossed 2.2 one-hit shutout innings with a pair of strikeouts, while Casey Daiss allowed just one hit in an inning of work.
Red’s Ryan Harrahill took the loss, surrendering four runs on six hits with pair of strikeouts and two walks in three innings of action. Brett Sears gave up two runs on two hits in one inning, followed by a scoreless frame by Kyle Perry. Rans Sanders allowed a run in the sixth, while Carson Jasa tossed a scoreless seventh frame.
Tyler Stone had a 2-for-3 day with a home run, two RBI, one walk and a run scored for the White squad. Max Buettenback went 2-for-3 with a double, two RBI, one walk and a run. Will Jesske and Gabe Swansen turned in two-hit performances, while Cayden Brumbaugh, Joshua Overbeek and Dylan Hufft had one hit apiece.
Red’s Dylan Carey turned in a 2-for-4 afternoon with a solo home run. Ben Columbus went 1-for-3 with a double, while Rhett Stokes and Aaron Manias recorded one hit each.
Red wasted no time getting on the board after Carey’s 378-foot solo homer into the left-field berm in the bottom of the first.
Consecutive doubles from Buettenback and Jesske to begin the top of the second locked the game at one, while Hayden Lewis’ RBI groundout plated Jesske to give White the 2-1 advantage.
The lead for White didn’t last long, as Red plated a pair of runs off two hits and an error to grab a 3-2 after two innings. Red opened the inning with a single by Rhett Stokes and a four-pitch walk to Clay Bradford, while Manias’ RBI single through the right side scored Stokes to tie the game at two. An RBI fielder’s choice from Riley Silva brought home Bradford to make it a 3-2 game.
White took back the lead in the top of the third with a pair of runs on two hits. Swansen reached on a walk, joined by Overbeek’s double to left-center that placed runners on second and third. Buettenback followed with a two-RBI single that ricocheted off the first-base bag to score Swansen and Overbeek.
White doubled up Red with another two runs in the fourth frame to stretch the lead to 6-3 after four innings. Brumbaugh reached on a one-out walk, before Stone blasted a 428-foot two-run homer out of the park in right-center.
The White squad tacked on one more run in the sixth after Hufft singled to right and later came around to score on Swansen’s two-out RBI single to left to clinch the 7-3 victory.
The Red-White Series continues tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 p.m. at Hawks Field.