Casey Burnham went 4-for-4 at the plate and drove in three runs to lead Nebraska to a 12-1 run-rule win in eight innings over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi in game one of Saturday’s doubleheader in Abilene, Texas.
The Huskers (15-8-1) scored 12 runs on 13 hits and an error, while the Islanders (13-15) recorded one run, five hits and three errors.
Emmett Olson improved to 5-1 with his fourth quality start of the season. The southpaw pitched six strong innings, allowing one run on four hits and strikeout four Islanders. Corbin Hawkins tossed the final two innings, giving up just one hit.
Burnham fell a home run shy of the cycle in his four-hit performance, tallying two singles, a double, a triple, three RBI and three runs. Brice Matthews was 2-for-4 with three RBI and two runs, while Dylan Carey went 2-for-4 with a pair of doubles, an RBI and a run scored. Max Anderson had a 2-for-5 performance with a two-run homer, while Gabe Swansen, Ben Columbus and Cole Evans tallied one hit each.
Olson worked around a one-out double in the first, while Swansen made a wall-crashing catch in left field in the second to keep the Islanders off the board through two.
The Huskers plated the game’s first run in the third with one hit and an error. Burnham reached on a one-out bunt single down the third-base line and advanced to third on the plate with a two-base throwing error. In the next at-bat, Matthews lifted a 1-2 pitch deep to right for sacrifice fly, scoring Burnham for his team-leading…
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