MOBILE, Ala. – Nebraska defeated South Alabama baseball 9-3 in Sunday's series finale at Eddie Stanky Field.

The Cornhuskers completed the three-game sweep with the win, marking the first time the Jags have been swept at home since last season against Georgia Southern. 

Nebraska right-hander Michael Garza (1-0) tossed six scoreless relief innings, and allowed one hit with three strikeouts and one walk to record his first win of the season. Jaguar left-hander Garfield Johns (0-1) allowed five earned runs on eight hits with three strikeouts and two walks in three innings pitched in the loss.

Nebraska (3-3-1) homered four times in the game, led by Josh Caron who finished with two along with five RBIs and two runs scored. Jaguar center fielder Will Turner went 3-for-4 with a triple and one RBI, and Joseph Sullivan added a home run, two RBIs and one run scored to lead South Alabama (4-4) at the plate.

How It Happened
•    (T1) A two-out RBI single to right-center field by Josh Caron scored Max Anderson, who doubled to right-center field with two outs, 1-0 Nebraska.
•    (T2) A two-out RBI single up the middle by Cole Evans scored Gabe Swansen, who singled to left field with two outs, advanced to second on a wild pitch and moved to third on a balk by Jaguar left-hander Garfield Johns, 2-0 Nebraska.
•    (T3) Anderson drew a leadoff walk and scored one batter later on a two-run home run to left field by Josh Caron, 4-0 Nebraska.
•    (B3) Colson Lawrence reached on a fielder's choice on a grounder to shortstop, and scored on a two-out triple to right field by Will Turner, Nebraska 4-1.
•    (T4) Cole Evans drew a leadoff walk, moved to third on a double by Brice Matthews and scored on an error by Jaguar second baseman Erick Orbeta on a dropped popup in shallow right field, 5-1 Nebraska.
•    (T4) Caron delivered a sacrifice fly to right field, 6-1 Nebraska.
•    (B4) Trey Smith led off the inning with a single to center field, and scored on a two-run home run to right field by Joseph Sullivan, 6-3 Nebraska.
•    (T5) Garrett Anglim delivered a one-out solo home run to center field, 7-3 Nebraska.
•    (T9) Caron delivered a one-out solo home run to left-center field, 8-3 Nebraska.
•    (T9) Charlie Fischer followed Caron with a solo home run to right field, 9-3 Nebraska.
 

Up Next
South Alabama will return to action Tue., Feb. 28, when it travels to New Orleans for a 6 p.m. contest at Tulane.

Quotes
Head Coach Mark Calvi
- On the loss:
"We just got beat today. I thought (Garfield) Johns wasn't as sharp this week as last week. We cleaned some things up defensively. We made one miscue, the ball kind of in no-man's land in center field. We've got to make that play, but our guys competed hard. We got five or six hits, leadoff men on and we got some hits. We're just missing that big hit with men on and two outs. We rolled into a couple of double plays that killed us. We'd start the inning off right, but then we'd roll into a double play and then hit a double. Instead of scoring two or three, we'd score one. It's just a matter of putting it all together, getting a hit with second and third and two outs or that big bases-clearing double with two outs.
 
"(Garza) came out of the pen with a pretty good slider. Then his second inning he started mixing in some changeups to lefties and gave us some problems. I thought we got some good swings off on him, and had nothing to show for it. We had some guys on the first two innings and didn't score. It would have been nice to answer there when we were down 2-0. But I thought our guys competed hard. It was a stark contrast defensively to yesterday. If we can keep moving forward and play good defense — we've got some arms, I think we have to get them in the right order. And we've got to start swinging the bats. We've got a couple of guys who aren't off to good starts, and a couple who are off to good starts. It's just a matter of them all jelling and working together offensively." 

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