Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Kearney, Neb. – The Nebraska-Kearney baseball team scored early and often in sweeping a double header from Fort Hays State, 10-2 and 17-4, Sunday afternoon in Kansas.
 
Over the first three games of the series, UNK (12-6, 6-5) has outscored the rival Tigers 45-6, evoking the 10-run rule on Sunday. Hays is now 3-11 (2-9) on the spring.
 
In today's first contest, the Lopers scored two in the second and third innings and then erupted for four in the seventh. Eight different starters had at least one hit with seven having at least one RBI.
 
Having five doubles and two homers among its 13 hits, UNK was paced by junior right fielder Anthony Pacheco (3 for 4, two runs) and junior catcher Danny Droll (1 for 3, three RBI's & two runs).
 
Wyoming senior Dalton Cowen went the distance to move to 3-1, allowing just two earned on eight hits and a walk. He fanned four and blanked the Tigers in five innings.
 
UNK had 15 hits, drew five walks, took advantage of two errors and was plunked twice to score 17 times in the second game. The Lopers had an eight-run second, a four-run third and a three-run fifth.
 
Droll (Penrose, Colo.) and freshman third baseman Josh Kiger (Papillion-LaVista South H.S.) each knocked in four runs with junior shortstop Dillon Schroeder (Kearney Catholic H.S.) going 2 for 4, with two runs and three RBI's.
 
Kearney had six more doubles with Droll and Kiger each hitting homers.
 
On the bump, Iowa senior Logan Willard moved to 2-0 by striking out four in six full innings. Colorado junior Ross Mortensen then threw a scoreless seventh.
 
The series wraps tomorrow with a nine inning game beginning at noon.