OMAHA, Neb. — Omaha opened its Summit League baseball series with an 11-4 loss to Northern Colorado on Friday at Tal Anderson Field.
Northern Colorado scored nine unanswered runs in the middle innings as the Bears took advantage of six Omaha errors.
Omaha (7-12, 3-1 Summit) took a 2-0 lead in the third inning as
Henry Zipay and
Jackson Trout hit back-to-back doubles down the third-base line for the first run before
Cardel Dick delivered an RBI single to right.
But a two-out error in the top of the fourth opened the door to two runs for Northern Colorado (4-20, 2-1). The Bears kept the momentum in the middle innings as they scored four in the fifth and three in the sixth for a 9-2 lead.
Omaha got two runs back in the bottom of the sixth when
Edoardo Cornelli lined a double into the right-center gap to score
Hayden Lewis and
Sam Beck. But Omaha didn't have a baserunner over the final three innings.
Trout had three of Omaha's seven hits on the day.
Omaha and Northern Colorado continue their series at 4 p.m. CT Saturday.
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