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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Omaha and Oral Roberts both opened Summit League play with three-game sweeps as conference play began last weekend. For the Mavericks, the sweep of North Dakota State was their first to open Summit action in six years, while the Golden Eagles avenged a series-opening loss to South Dakota State from a season ago.

St. Thomas and Northern Colorado had their conference-opening series shortened by a game due to air quality in Colorado from wildfires in the region as the Tommies and Bears split two contests.

The Bears will travel to Omaha for a three-game set this weekend, while the Tommies will face the Golden Eagles in Tulsa. NDSU travels down I-29 to take on SDSU. Game one will mark the first home game of the season for the Jackrabbits, who played their first 21 of the campaign away from Brookings.

AROUND THE LEAGUE
• Omaha opened Summit League play with a sweep for the first time since 2020 after taking all three games from visiting North Dakota State in the conference-opening series for both teams.
• The Mavericks’ pitching staff yielded just four earned runs over the weekend to post a 1.33 ERA. The unit’s WHIP was below 1.00 as the Bison offense mustered just 16 hits and drew nine free passes.
• Sophomore Tanner Foertsch became the second Maverick to earn the weekly Kwik Star pitching honor after striking out a career-high nine over seven scoreless innings in the series finale. Foertsch yielded just three hits and retired the side in order in his final frame before the Omaha offense produced two runs to break a 0-0 deadlock.
• Senior Cameron Teinert picked up back-to-back wins out of the bullpen in games one and two and did not allow a run over 3.2 innings of relief work vs. the Bison. He tossed a scoreless inning in the 4-2 victory in game one and 2.2 scoreless innings in a 6-2 victory in game two.
• Junior Hayden Lewis provided the offensive heroics for the Mavericks, batting .400 with six RBI in the series, which matched his season total from Omaha’s opening 14 games.
• Lewis delivered a game-tying RBI single in the opener, cleared the bases with a double in the sixth to break a 2-2 tie in game two, then provided a two-out, two-run single in game three to secure a 2-0 victory and secure the sweep for the Mavericks.
• Lewis went 2-for-4 against Creighton in mid-week action to extend his hitting streak to five.
• Omaha outfielder Jackson Trout leads all Summit players with a .406 batting average and 28 hits on the campaign. He had an 11-game hitting streak foiled in the series finale vs. NDSU.  
• NDSU’s Diego Trujillo has three straight multi-hit efforts and led the Bison with a .444 batting average in the series vs. Omaha. He added a 2-for-5 effort for the Bison in the 11-8 extra-inning win over Minnesota.
• Catcher Evan Gustafson homered twice against the Gophers, including a three-run shot in the 11th. His five-RBI game marked a career-high and exceded his season total of four from the first 16 games.
• Oral Roberts also picked up a series sweep, taking all three games from South Dakota State after the Jackrabbits opened last season with a series win in Tulsa. The Golden Eagles rallied in the eighth inning of the first two games to win 4-3 and 3-1 before run-ruling the Jacks in the series finale 12-2 in eight innings.
• Tyler Brodrick went 4-for-8 in the series and provided a go-ahead run in the eighth with a RBI single. The Golden Eagles would tack on the eventual game-winning run on a wild pitch.
• Will Edmundson delivered the big hit in game two as his RBI single in the eighth broke a 1-1 tie in a contest the ORU offense could muster just five hits, including two by DH Nate Nichols.
• SDSU’s Sam Schlecht produced a strong start for the Jacks in game two, scattering four hits and an unearned run over 5.2 innings. ORU starter Nathan Love was equal to the task, yielding just an earned run over 5.2 innings.
• After falling behind 2-1, the ORU offense put up three runs in the sixth and four in both the seventh and eighth to finish off the sweep. Brodrick added three more hits and a team-high three RBI in the finale, while four other Golden Eagles had multi-hit efforts.
• The Jacks were led at the plate by Nate Wachter, who hit safely in all three games of the ORU series and went 4-for-8 at the dish.
• SDSU stayed in Oklahoma and dropped a pair of one-run decisions to perennial Big 12 power Oklahoma State, 7-6 and 12-11. In game two, the Jacks scored five ninth-inning runs to square things at 11-11 before the Cowboys got a walk-off homer in their half of the ninth.
• St. Thomas and Northern Colorado split a pair of games after having one cancelled due to air quality from wildfires across the region.
• The Tommies took the opener 8-5 with Joe Roder providing a two-run double in the eighth that put UST ahead 5-4. Roder finished the contest 2-for-5 with three RBI.
• The Bears broke open a 4-4 deadlock with two in the seventh and three in the eighth. Rightfielder Ethan Mooser had run-scoring hits in both of those frames and finished the two games 5-for-9 at the plate.

UPCOMING
Game | Stream/TV | Local Time
Friday, March 20
NDSU at SDSU | SLN | 3 p.m. CT
Northern Colorado at Omaha | SLN | 4 p.m. CT
St. Thomas at Oral Roberts | SLN | 6 p.m. CT

Saturday, March 21
NDSU at SDSU | SLN | 2 p.m. CT
St. Thomas at Oral Roberts | SLN | 2 p.m. CT
Northern Colorado at Omaha | SLN | 4 p.m. CT

Sunday, March 23
NDSU at SDSU | SLN | 1 p.m. CT
St. Thomas at Oral Roberts | SLN | 1 p.m. CT
Northern Colorado at Omaha | SLN | 2 p.m. CT

Tuesday, March 25
Omaha at Creighton | ESPN+ | 6 p.m. CT

Wednesday, March 26
SDSU at Creighton | ESPN+ | 6 p.m. CT
Oral Roberts vs. Air Force (Enid, Okla.) | 6 p.m. CT
St. Thomas at Minnesota | B1G+ | 6 p.m. CT

Key: B1G+ (Big Ten Plus); ESPN+ (ESPN Plus); MWN (Mountain West Network); SEC+ (SEC Network Plus); SLN (Summit League Network).

RESULTS
Friday, March 13
Omaha 4, NDSU 2
Oral Roberts 4, SDSU 3

Saturday, March 14
St. Thomas 8, Northern Colorado 5
Northern Colorado 9, St. Thomas 4
Omaha 6, NDSU 2
Omaha 2, NDSU 0
Oral Roberts 3, SDSU 1

Sunday, March 15
Oral Roberts 12, SDSU 2 (8)
 
Monday, March 16
Air Force 20, St. Thomas 12 (8)
 
Tuesday, March 17
Arkansas Little Rock 11, Oral Roberts 1
(5/4) Arkansas 13, Northern Colorado 2
Oklahoma State 7, SDSU 6
NDSU 7, Minnesota 4 (11)
 
Wednesday, March 18
(5/4) Arkansas 9, Northern Colorado 4
Oral Roberts 11, Arkansas Little Rock 1
SDSU, Oklahoma State 12, SDSU 11
Creighton 8, Omaha 2

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