LINCOLN, Neb. -- The Omaha baseball team ended a 21-year drought against in-state foe Nebraska Wednesday night, defeating the Huskers 8-7 at Hawks Field at Haymarket Park. With the win, the Mavericks improve to 13-19, while NU drops to 16-19.
 
Malik Moore (1-2) made his first career start on the mound, earning the win with two runs allowed on two hits and a walk over 3.0 innings. NU starter Ethan Frazier (1-1) took the loss, surrendering four runs (two earned) on four hits and three walks with a strikeout in 2.2 innings of work. Cal Hehnke tossed his team-leading fourth save of the year with a 1-2-3 ninth inning.
 
Max Gamm was 2-for-4 with a run scored and three more driven in to lead the Mavericks at the plate. Braden Rogers had another multi-hit effort at 2-for-4 with a run scored.
 
Grant Suponchick added three runs scored and drove in another, while Adam Caniglia tallied a pair of runs himself. Tommy Steier, making his first career start in the field at shortstop, drove in two more runs for the night.
 
Omaha capitalized on nine walks and five hit batsmen by the Husker pitching staff, as well as two errors.
 
The Mavericks quickly seized a two-run lead in the top of the first. Thomas DeBonville walked and stole second, then scored on a Suponchick RBI single through the left side. Consecutive singles from Braden Rogers and Caniglia loaded the bases with one out, and Suponchick came in courtesy of a Gamm sacrifice fly to center for a 2-0 advantage.
 
Nebraska evened it in the bottom half of the inning as Scott Schreiber tripled to right center and Luke Roskam poked a two-run homer to right center as the 2-2 equalizer.
 
The Mavericks regained the lead with a pair of runs in the third, as Ben Palensky and Steier both worked bases-loaded walks to score Suponchick and Caniglia, respectively.
 
In the top of the fourth, Nebraska drew a leadoff walk to prompt an Omaha call to the pen for Keil Krumwiede, who struck out the side in his mound debut. The sophomore went 2.0 hitless shutout innings with four Ks.
 
A four-run sixth inning bolstered Omaha's lead to six. The Mavericks used a walk, a single and a hit-by-pitch to juice the bags, and Gamm put a two-run single down the line in right to open the scoring. Tyler Daugherty was then plunked by another pitch to load the bases a second time, and a wild pitch allowed Caniglia to score. Following an NU pitching change, Steier watched four straight pitches for his second walk of the night, which pushed in Gamm for an 8-2 advantage.
 
The Huskers cut into it Omaha's lead in the home half of the frame, with Roskam again doing the damage. His RBI single to left center -- Nebraska's third consecutive of the frame -- drove in Schreiber to make it 8-3. The inning sparked a stretch with five unanswered runs for NU, which added three more in the seventh with RBI base hits from Jesse Wilkening and Angelo Altavilla, then another in the eighth on a Schreiber RBI single.
 
Clinging to an 8-7 lead, Omaha brought in Hehnke to face the heart of the Husker lineup in the bottom of the ninth. He retired NU in order with a three-pitch strikeout, a groundout and a flyout to preserve Omaha's win.
 
The victory ended Nebraska's 11-game streak in the all-time series, in place since 1997. It also marked Omaha's third win over a Big Ten team this season.
 
Omaha resumes Summit League play with a three-game series at Fort Wayne, opening on Friday, April 20 with a doubleheader at 11 a.m. CT. Links to live stats and video will be available on OMavs.com.