IOWA CITY, Iowa — The University of Iowa baseball team took down Nebraska Omaha, 13-1, in 14 innings at Duane Banks Field on Friday evening.
Eleven different Hawkeyes saw the mound on Friday, collectively giving up one run on five hits. Cade Obermueller started the game firing two straight strikeouts before giving up a full-count home run to left field. The left-hander responded with another punch out and then retired the side in order in the second inning to finish his day on the mound.
Anthony Watts took over pitching duties in the third frame. The junior gave up a leadoff double, but a groundout and back-to-back strikeouts limited the damage. Watts then threw a scoreless fourth inning to cap off his strong outing.
Aaron Savary kept the Mavericks scoreless in the fifth, and Reece Beuter followed suit in the sixth and seventh frames. Sam Hart was the next Hawkeye to make a mound appearance, sitting down the Mavericks in order in the eighth.
Ben DeTaeye and Tyler Guerin each stranded a runner in the ninth and 10th innings, respectively. Combined efforts on the mound from Daniel Wright, Brant Hogue, Chas Wheatley and Will Pearson in the final few innings helped secure the Hawkeye victory.
The Iowa offense recorded 16 hits against the Mavericks. The Hawkeyes knotted the game with two outs in the third inning as a Miles Risley double turned into a Gable Mitchell RBI single. Iowa tacked on three more runs in the fifth inning, highlighted by another RBI single from Mitchell and a Reese Moore RBI SAC fly.
The Hawkeyes took advantage of Maverick miscues in the bottom of the seventh, plating three runs on zero hits. Blake Guerin extended Iowa’s lead in the eighth inning with a no-doubt dinger to left center. A three-run 10th inning, which featured a Ben Wilmes leadoff single, a Merrick Mathews RBI groundout and a Kellen Strohmeyer 2 RBI base knock, gave the Hawkeyes an 11-1 lead.
Iowa’s next run came in the 13th frame when Colin Coonradt hit a line drive up the middle to score Tyler Guerin. Strohmeyer then laced an RBI triple to the right-center gap to give the Hawkeyes their final run of the game.
Up next
The Hawkeyes will return to Duane Banks Field on Friday, Oct. 11, for a matchup against Iowa Western at 3 p.m.