{"id":240441,"date":"2026-03-28T05:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T05:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/240441\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T05:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T05:35:09","slug":"bluejay-baseball-takes-series-opener-6-2-over-sacramento-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/240441\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluejay Baseball Takes Series Opener 6-2 Over Sacramento State"},"content":{"rendered":"

Omaha, Neb. — Powered by homers from Teddy Deters<\/a> and Ben North<\/a>, Creighton Baseball took the series opener from Sacramento State 6-2 on Friday, March 27. The win lifted the Bluejays to 12-11 on the season, while the Hornets fell to 10-17.<\/p>\n

Sacramento State surged ahead with a pair of unearned runs in the third, taking advantage of a wild pitch on a strikeout as well as an errant throw to plate the first run. The Hornets used consecutive sacrifice bunts to take a 2-0 edge.<\/p>\n

Creighton responded immediately as Rocco Gump<\/a> drew a one-out walk, stole second and scampered around to score on an RBI single from Joe Washburn<\/a>. Deters followed with his first home run of the season, blasting his third home run of the season to give the Bluejays a 3-2 edge.<\/p>\n

North extended Creighton’s lead to 4-2 with a solo home run to left in the fourth, then Deters lined a two-run double off the glove of Hornet third baseman Jacob Poturnak down the left field line.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bluejay starter Jack Pineau<\/a> earned the win, limiting the Hornets to a pair of unearned runs in seven innings. While Bluejay reliever Jimmy Burke<\/a> tossed a pair of scoreless frames to close out the win.<\/p>\n

Sac State starter Carson Timothy surrendered four runs on three hits in four innings to fall to 2-2 on the season.<\/p>\n

Creighton and Sacramento State return to Charles Schwab Field on Saturday, March 28 for the second game of the series at 2:00 pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Omaha, Neb. — Powered by homers from Teddy Deters and Ben North, Creighton Baseball took the series opener…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-240441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}