Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 OMAHA, Neb. -- The Omaha baseball team swept a doubleheader against Fort Wayne Sunday afternoon, earning a 7-0 shutout victory in game one and a 9-5 win in game two at the Ballpark at Boys Town. The Mavericks improve to 12-9 (3-0 Summit League), while the Mastodons drop to 9-11 (0-3 Summit League).

The weekend series sweep was Omaha's first since March 20-22, 2015, when the Mavericks' took three straight from North Dakota State.

GAME 1 -- OMAHA 7, FORT WAYNE 0
Junior left-hander Sam Murphy (2-0) earned the win in the opener, tossing 5.0 shutout innings in his start. The Lake Worth, Fla., native limited the Mastodons to five singles with no walks and four strikeouts. Mitchell Ley (0-2) took the loss, allowing six runs on seven hits and three walks over 3.2 innings of work. Sophomore right-hander David Flattery also picked up his first career save with 4.0 shutout innings, keeping IPFW to two hits with no walks and three strikeouts.

Freshman Riley Herold finished 2-for-4 with two doubles, two RBI and a run scored to lead UNO at the plate. Senior Cole Gruber 2-for-3, one run, one RBI), sophomore Ryan Cate (2-for-3, one run, one RBI) and senior Clayton Taylor (2-for-5, one RBI) also finished with multiple hits, and freshman Grant Suponchick was 1-for-3 with two runs driven in.

Omaha jumped out early, scoring two runs on two hits in the bottom of the second inning. Sophomore Adam Caniglia led off with a walk for the Mavericks and scored on Suponchick's RBI double to right center. Suponchick then advanced to third on a sacrifice bunt by junior Sam Palensky and came in on a flare to short center by Cate for a 2-0 lead.

In the third, senior Collin Leif was hit by a pitch and Gruber doubled to put both runners in scoring position for Omaha. With one out, Taylor doubled to drive in Leif, and Caniglia followed with a walk to load the bases. A sacrifice fly to center by Suponchick then pushed Gruber across, extending the Mavericks' lead to 4-0.

Omaha tacked on another run in the fourth, as Cate led off with a triple to left center and came in on an RBI double to left by Herold. Gruber later issued a two-out single to center, plating Herold for a 6-0 edge.

The Mavericks capped their scoring in the seventh, as Herold came up with a two-out RBI double to left center to drive in Palensky for a 7-0 advantage.

GAME 2 -- OMAHA 9, FORT WAYNE 5
Junior right-hander Brett Sasse (1-2) registered the win in the twinbill's second game, allowing one run on two hits and a walk with two strikeouts over 2.0 innings of work. Trevor Storie (2-3) was tagged with the loss, giving up eight runs on seven hits and two free passes with two strikeouts in 3.0 innings.

Leif led the way at the plate, finishing 2-for-3 with a triple, a walk, a run scored and three RBI. Gruber was 2-for-5 with two runs and another driven in, and Taylor went 2-for-5 with his league-leading sixth home run of the season. Palensky also had a multi-hit effort with a 2-for-5 performance and a run scored, while Cate finished 1-for-2 with his third homer of the year and scored twice.

Fort Wayne got on the board first, taking a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning. After loading the bases with a walk and two singles, Shane Trevino drove in Brandon Soat with a sacrifice fly to left for the Mastodons' first run.

The lead was short-lived, however, as Omaha went ahead in the bottom half of the inning. Gruber got on with a one-out single up the middle, and Taylor then crushed a two-run homer to right, which put Omaha up 2-1.

The Mavericks came up big in the fourth inning, posting six runs on five hits. Omaha loaded the bases with a leadoff single by Palensky, a hit-by-pitch by Cate and a bunt single from freshman Jack Kalina before Leif smacked a three-run triple to right center. He later scored when senior Alex Schultz reached on a fielder's choice, and Schultz came in with an RBI single up the middle by Gruber. UNO plated its last run of the inning when Gruber scored on a wild pitch, pushing the lead to 8-1.

Fort Wayne responded with a three-run, four-hit effort in the fifth. Evan VanSumeren's two-run double to left center scored Shannon Baker and Jackson Boyce, and he later came in with Trevino's sacrifice fly to center to cut the Mavericks' advantage to 8-4.

Cate then opened the bottom half of the frame with his solo roundtripper to left, making it 9-4.

The Mastodons managed one more run in the seventh with Kendall Whitman's two-out RBI single to left, which scored VanSumeren for a 9-5 tally. IPFW went down in order in the eighth and threatened with two runners in scoring position with two outs in the ninth, but junior Shane Meltz got Whitman with a strikeout looking to end the game.

Omaha returns to action with another three-game Summit League series next weekend, hosting North Dakota State. First pitch all three days is set for 1 p.m. at the Ballpark at Boys Town, and links to live stats and audio will be available on OMavs.com.