Creighton University
Bradley
Jonas Dufek Twirls Gem as Baseball Downs Bradley 5-0
4/25/2009 7:00:00 PM | Baseball
Continuing where he left off on Friday night, T.J. Roemmich helped the Bluejays take an early lead in the second. After Vicente Cafaro was hit by a pitch, Roemmich doubled to straight away center, scoring Cafaro to put CU on the board. Jimmy Swift then walked with runners on four straight pitches to put runners on the corners with no outs. Ian Dike also walked, loading the bases before Nick Becker himself drew a walk bringing in Swift for the second run of the inning.
In the bottom of the fifth Elliot Soto got a hit for the 21st straight game, shooting a ball through the hole on the right side, putting runners at the corners with no outs. Cafaro then utilized a safety squeeze to score Robbie Knight from third and give the Bluejays a 3-0 lead.
Creighton extended its lead in the sixth when Becker came up with a single up the middle to plate Swift from second. Knight then made the CU advantage 5-0 when he tripled into the left field corner, allowing Becker to score.
Dufek (3-5) went the distance allowing just three hits while striking out seven and did not walk a man.
Creighton and Bradley will wrap up their series on Sunday with a game time of noon at the CU Sports Complex. The game had previously been scheduled for 1:00 p.m.
NOTES: The game was rain delayed by an hour and a half before first pitch...Dufek struck out four of the first five batters he faced...That ties Jeremy Hauer who struck out four of the first five Huskers he faced on Tuesday...Before Hauer did the trick, the last Bluejay to strikeout four of the first five opponents was Eric Wordekemper, who struck out the first four men to open a March 14, 2003 win over Eastern Illinois...Soto's hit streak is just seven short of the Creighton record of 28 set by Tony Roth in 2005...Darin Ruf moved into sixth place on the the all-time NCAA putout leaderboard with 2,083 after recording 12 putouts on Saturday...CU's three hits allowed tied a season-low, previously matching the deed on March 29 against Southern Illinois, when Dufek threw a complete-game three hit shutout in that game as well...The game against the Salukis was a run-ruled shortened seven inning game as the Jays won 10-0...It was the first nine inning complete game shutout by a Bluejay since Steve Grasley did the trick against Bradley on May 17, 2003...It was the first nine inning complete game by any CU pitcher since Grasley did it on May 7, 2004 against Wichita State.
