Box Score OMAHA, Neb. – The Omaha baseball team visited crosstown rival Creighton for a midweek game on Tuesday night, falling 8-2 at TD Ameritrade Park. With the loss, the Mavericks are now 17-20 on the year, while the Bluejays improve to 22-11.

In a game in which Creighton used 10 pitchers, Matt Warren (3-2) earned the win by throwing one hitless, scoreless inning to start. Sophomore right-hander Mitch Larson (0-2) was tagged with the loss, allowing four runs (three earned) on four hits and two walks over 1.2 innings while striking out two.

No Maverick tallied more than one hit for the night. Senior Daniel Jewett and junior Alex Schultz finished an identical 1-for-4 and drove in a run apiece, while junior Cole Gruber was 1-for-4 with a run scored.

Creighton accounted for 14 hits as a team, led by Landon Lucansky's 3-for-4 night at the plate with a run scored and another driven in. Nicky Lopez, Daniel Woodrow, Brett Murray, Ryan Fitzgerald and Matt Gandy each added a pair of hits.

Creighton got on the board first, with Woodrow singling to the shortstop, stealing second and later scoring on an RBI single to left center by Murray for a 1-0 lead.

The Jays added three more runs in the second, using three hits and two Maverick errors. With two outs, Lucansky doubled down the right field line and Kevin Lamb walked, putting two on. Woodrow then singled to second, and a throwing error allowed Lucansky to score. Following a pitching change, a two-run single to right by Lopez drove in Woodrow and Lamb, pushing it to 4-0.

In the third, CU posted another run with three hits. Murray led off with a single to right and advanced to second on Harrison Crawford's groundout. Fitzgerald then came up with an RBI single to center to help Murray cross, building the Jays' lead to 5-0.

Omaha made its first mark in the fifth inning, when Schultz put a two-out RBI single up the middle to plate senior Justin Threlkeld, trimming the Bluejays' lead to 5-1.

In the seventh, however, CU tacked on three more runs with four hits. Crawford singled to right center, advanced on a passed ball and scored on Fitzgerald's RBI single up the middle. Gandy and Lucansky then keyed consecutive one-out singles, with Lucansky's driving in Fitzgerald, and two batters later, Gandy came in on a wild pitch that made it 8-1.

The Mavericks managed one more run in the eighth, as Gruber led off with a double down the left field line and scored on Jewett's RBI single up the middle, bringing the final score to 8-2.

Omaha returns home this weekend, hosting Fort Wayne at the Ballpark at Boys Town, April 24-26. First pitch all three days is set for 1 p.m., and links to live stats and audio will be available on OMavs.com.