BASEBALL
Jays earn shot at Valley title with win over Redbirds
The Bluejays rode a 13-hit attack Thursday to a 10-3 victory that eliminated Illinois State and advanced CU to the championship game of the Missouri Valley tournament for the second straight year. Creighton hit .361 in its three Bracket A wins, totaling 10 hits or more in each game.
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Notes: Bluejay ace Blach to start final
Creighton should have its ace on the mound Saturday when the Bluejays try to secure a return trip to the NCAA tournament. Left-hander Ty Blach said after Creighton clinched its spot in the Valley tournament championship game Thursday with a 10-3 win over Illinois State that he'll be ready to start the 7 p.m. game at Hammons Field.
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Gerber, Ross power Bluejays past Redbirds
Illinois State coach Mark Kingston had a simple answer Wednesday for the surge that has carried last-seeded Creighton to within one win of a return to the Missouri Valley tournament championship game. “That's baseball,'' Kingston said after watching the Bluejays maul his team for 16 hits in an 11-5 victory. “That's why they have these tournaments. If everything was done on paper, it would be very predictable.
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Notes: Bluejay bats come alive just in time
Creighton came into the Missouri Valley tournament with offensive numbers that would make a hitting coach cringe. The Bluejays ranked 283rd out of 291 Division I teams in batting average (.239), 276th in hits (331), 267th in runs scored (213), 269th in slugging percentage (.331) and 244th in homers (13).
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Blach's one-hitter lifts Jays past top-seeded Sycamores
Tuesday's Missouri Valley Conference tournament game provided Creighton with some long-awaited redemption. The Bluejays dusted aside the frustration of finishing last in the regular season by dusting off top-seeded against Indiana State 5-0 at Hammons Field. Creighton (23-28) got a dominating performance from Ty Blach, gold-glove defense from its fielders and 10 hits from its lightweight offense in moving into Wednesday's Bracket A winners game against Illinois State.
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Bluejays’ Blach full of pro potential
Ty Blach will put on a Creighton baseball uniform Tuesday and try to pitch the Bluejays to an upset of Indiana State in the Missouri Valley tournament.
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Venditte hoping to avoid surgery on torn labrum
Former Creighton pitcher Pat Venditte, professional baseball’s only ambidextrous pitcher, has a torn labrum in his right shoulder.
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Hitting road OK with CU
Ed Servais welcomed the opportunity last season for Creighton to host the Missouri Valley Conference tournament at Omaha’s new downtown ballpark. This season, Servais can’t wait to get his Bluejays out of town.
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