Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 | Box Score 3 Kearney, Neb. - The Nebraska-Kearney baseball team hit .387, scored 31 runs and had a 4.32 ERA in sweeping a three-game series with Truman State this past weekend in Pittsburg, Kans.

The MIAA contests were originally set for Memorial Field but moved to Jaycee Park due to weather and field conditions. The Lopers are now 8-7 (8-5) while Truman, which leaves for the GLVC in July , slips to 2-11.

UNK won Saturday's games by scores of 9-8 and 13-4 and then won 13-4 on Sunday. 

Senior Brian Wuest (.600, two HR's, six RBI's) and true freshman Anthony Pacheco (.600, two RBI's) paced an offense that saw six players hit at least .400 in the series.

Besides Wuest, sophomore Dillon Schroeder (Kearney) hit two homers as well with sophomore Max Ayoub (Grand Island) belting a "Grand Slam" in the second game.

On the hill, junior Carlos Palomo (Gering) threw seven strong inning to win game two with redshirt freshman Joe Smidt (North Platte) and junior Kyle LaClaire (Orland, Calif.) combining to allow no earned runs over 4.1 innings in the nightcap.

The tightest game was the first one in which UNK got out to a 5-1 lead, only to see Truman battle back to grab a 6-5 lead and then tie things up at eight with a two-run sixth.

In the bottom of the sixth, Wuest (Prosper, Texas) led off with a double and scored the winning run on a double by now second baseman Danny Droll (Penrose, Colo.). Junior Dalton Cowen (Gillette, Wyo.) got the win in relief with sophomore Ross Mortensen (Colo. Springs, Colo. pick up the save.

Kearney continues to stay on the road with an MIAA series this weekend at national power Central Missouri.