With a share of first place in the Summit League on the line, Omaha fell short in another 1-0 game.

For the fourth time in the last five weeks, the Mavericks (15-16) played a Friday game in which a single run was scored. And for the second consecutive week at home, they weren't the team that scored it.

North Dakota State (20-10) moved two games ahead of Omaha in the Summit League standings by edging the Mavericks at Tal Anderson Field Friday. The Bison, now 8-2 in conference play, scored the only run of the game when Cadyn Schwabe reached home on a Logan Williams ground-rule double.

The sixth-inning run came off Omaha starter Caleb Riedel (2-2), who saw his streak of consecutive scoreless innings end at 32. He hadn't given up a run since the Feb. 27 game at Southern California.

Riedel scattered five hits and fanned nine in six innings Friday. The Mavericks provided no run support.

"Caleb deserves better than that," Omaha coach Evan Porter said. "We need to be tougher offensively. We have chances. We ran ourselves out of one inning. And even though we did that, we've got to find more ways to put pressure on their defense and their pitching."

The Mavericks (6-4 in the Summit) finished the night with six hits, but they couldn't break through against NDSU starter Max Loven (5-2) and reliever Tristen Roehrich. Five of their six hits came with two outs in an inning. The one that didn't came in the sixth inning, but it turned into a missed opportunity.

With Noah Greise on base, Mike Boeve doubled to right field to give Omaha two runners in scoring position with no outs in a scoreless game. Greise, however, was thrown out at the plate on an ensuing ground ball. Then Eddie Satisky, who reached on that fielder's choice, was thrown out trying to steal.

The inning ended when Loven got Will Reetz to pop out on the infield. NDSU, the home team in the game after the series was moved to Omaha due to poor weather in the North, scored soon after.

"Our offense is a lot better than what we're showing," Porter said. "We're really just underperforming right now. We need to find a way to get tougher in the box with two strikes. We've kind of been up and down this season. This is the exact same conversation as a week ago."

Last week, the Mavericks dropped a 1-0 game to Northern Colorado on Friday. They beat Oral Roberts by the same score the week before. And two weeks before that, Omaha edged Rutgers 1-0 at home.

"We need to find a way to score runs on Fridays," Porter said. "It's amazing that we've won two of them."