Creighton Baseball Stumbles Against North Dakota State, 13-6

Omaha, Neb. -- Playing in front of better than 10,000 fans on the Annual Cox Kids Day at the Ballpark, Creighton fell to North Dakota State 13-6 on Tuesday, April 28. The loss dropped the Bluejays to 25-17 on the season, while North Dakota State moved to 9-26.

The Bison broke open a scoreless game in the top of the fourth with four runs on five hits. North Dakota State greeted Creighton reliever Jakob Ruhl with four consecutive RBI knocks to storm ahead. 

Pushing across two runs in both the fifth and the sixth the Bluejays pulled within one at 5-4. Nick Venteicher plated the first Bluejay run with an RBI single in the fourth, while Nate McHugh drove in the second in the inning with a productive out. NDSU responded with a run in the sixth, but Creighton's Rocco Gump drove a two-run to left-center.

North Dakota State, however, plated five runs in the seventh and three in the eighth to break the game open.

Gump was lone Bluejay hitter with two hits or more, closing the game 2-for-4 with two RBI and a run scored.

The starters for each side were the pitchers of record as Creighton's Max McClellan was tagged with the loss (2-1), allowing two runs on one hit and four walks in 3.1 innings. Bison starter Garrett Shupe picked up the win (1-1) with three innings of scoreless ball.

Creighton travels to New York for a BIG EAST series at St. John's beginning on Friday, May 1 at 2:00 pm.