OMAHA, Neb. Creighton first baseman Will MacLean went 4-for-5 and drove in three runs to lead the Bluejays to a 10-3 victory over South Dakota State in nonconference baseball action Tuesday night at Charles Schwab Field.
Creighton improved to 15-3 on the season, while the Jackrabbits dropped to 10-11 after having their three-game winning streak broken.
The Bluejays tallied three runs in the bottom of the first inning and led 7-0 through five innings. After the first run of the game scored on a sacrifice fly, MacLean singled home Nolan Sailors for a 2-0 lead. The third run of the opening frame came across on a bases-loaded walk to B. North.
Creightons lead grew to 4-0 in the second inning and 7-0 in the fifth inning as the Bluejays put together their second three-run inning of the night. MacLean plated the first run of the fifth inning, with the last two runs scoring on one of the Jackrabbits three errors in the game.
SDSU countered with a pair of runs in the top of the sixth and added another run an inning later. Nebraska native Carter Sintek reached base for the third time in the game with a walk to lead off the Jackrabbit sixth and Cael Frost followed with a single to center field that extended his hitting streak to 19 game. After both runners advanced on a groundout, Adam Benes delivered a two-run single.
Frosts 19-game hitting streak ties him with Tyson Fisher (2006) and Matt Johnson (2016) for the longest by a Jackrabbit in a single season in SDSUs Division I history (since 2005).
The Jackrabbits seventh-inning run was unearned as Davis Carr reached on an error, moved to third on a base hit by Matthew Werk and scored on a groundout by Sintek.
MacLean notched his third run-scoring hit of the night in the bottom of the sixth and the Bluejays tacked on two more runs in the seventh.
Will Kent started and took the loss for SDSU after surrendering four runs and three hits in two innings. The sophomore right-hander struck out two, walked four and hit one batter.
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