Box Score OMAHA, Neb. -- The Omaha baseball team evened its weekend series with Fort Wayne on Saturday, posting 17 hits en route to a 13-3 victory in eight innings at Mastodon Field. With the win, the Mavericks improve to 16-15 (9-5 Summit League), while the Mastodons drop to 15-15 (5-9 Summit League).

Senior right-hander Zach Williamsen (5-4) picked up his second win in as many outings, allowing three runs on six hits and three walks with three strikeouts. Ryan Wells, the defending Summit League pitcher of the Week, took the loss in his start, accounting for nine runs on 11 hits with three strikeouts of his own.

Six Maverick batters had multi-hit days at the plate: Juniors Alex Schultz (3-for-5, three runs, one RBI), Cole Gruber (3-for-4, two runs, two RBI) and Clayton Taylor (2-for-4, two runs, three RBI), redshirt freshmen Ryan Cate (2-for-4, one run, three RBI) and Isaac Holt (2-for-4, two runs) and freshman Cole Patterson (2-for-4, two runs, one RBI).

Omaha built a five-run lead with five hits in the bottom of the third inning. Patterson and Holt both singled to left to put two on for Schultz, who singled to right to drive in Patterson. Gruber was hit by a pitch to load the bases with one out, and Taylor followed up with a two-run double to right that plated Schultz and Holt, and a wild pitch during Cate's at-bat allowed Gruber to score. Cate then sent a sacrifice fly to left that drove in Taylor, making it 5-0.

The Mavericks bolstered their lead in the fourth, stringing together five hits for four runs. Senior Justin Threlkeld singled to third and stole second, then came in on Patterson's RBI single to center. UNO loaded the bags once more with a bunt single by Holt and Schultz's single through the left side, and a two-run single through the left from Gruber scored Holt and Patterson. Omaha etched one more run in the book with Taylor's sacrifice fly to right, which drove in Schultz and extended the lead to 9-0.

Fort Wayne made its only offensive tallies in the fifth, posting three runs on four hits. Three straight singles from Greg Kaiser, Shannon Baker and Jonathan Valenzuela-Reece loaded the bases, and Kaiser scored via Jackson Boyce's sacrifice fly to left. Evan Van Sumeren then singled to left center, pushing two runs across with Reece and Baker to make it 9-3.

UNO scratched out two more runs on three hits in the seventh. Taylor and Cate reached on consecutive singles to right, and both were put in scoring position with a sacrifice bunt courtesy of junior Alex Mortensen. Two batters later, freshman Adam Caniglia singled through the right side to drive in both runners, giving Omaha an 11-3 advantage.

The eighth inning saw Schultz and Gruber single consecutively to put two runners on with one out. A Taylor groundout pushed them both into scoring position, and Cate promptly delivered a two-RBI single to left to score both. The 13-3 lead held through the bottom half of the eighth inning, and Omaha seized the road league win to even the weekend series at 1-1.

The rubber match between Omaha and Fort Wayne is set for Sunday, April 12, with first pitch at Noon (CT) at Mastodon Field in Fort Wayne, Ind. A link to live stats will be available on OMavs.com.