Nebraska sweeps Southeast baseball

~ The Cornhuskers capped the three-game series with a 10-3 victory

The Southeast Missouri State baseball team was competitive early in the season during seven games against major-conference squads.

Although Southeast won just one of those contests against Auburn, Michigan State and Mississippi State, most of them went to the wire.

But the Redhawks' final shot this season against major-conference opponents resulted in a major beatdown.

Nebraska finished off a dominant three-game series sweep of visiting Southeast with Sunday's 10-3 romp in Lincoln, Neb.

The Cornhuskers (23-24), who entered the weekend last in the Big 12 Conference, rolled 20-6 on Saturday after taking Friday's series opener 6-2.

Southeast (27-20), which has dropped five of its last six games, was outscored 36-11 over the weekend.

After holding early leads in the first two contests against Nebraska, Southeast trailed all the way Sunday as it was swept in a three-game series for the first time this season.

A two-out, first-inning home run by D.J. Belfonte put Nebraska up 1-0.

Cody Asche's three-run double with two outs in the third inning made it 4-0. Asche had 11 RBIs in the series.

A fifth-inning RBI double by junior third baseman Casey Jones with two outs got Southeast on the scoreboard.

But the Cornhuskers answered in the bottom of the fifth with a three-run homer by Tyler Farst. A three-run sixth made it 10-1.

Southeast took advantage of two errors in the seventh to score two unearned runs. Jones had an RBI single.

The Redhawks had eight hits, led by sophomore shortstop Kenton Parmley, who had three hits in each game of the series. Parmley went 3 for 4 on Sunday, making him 9 for 13 over the weekend.

Jones had two hits and two RBIs, while junior center fielder Blake Slattery added two hits.

Parmley scored a run, giving him 62 runs scored this year to tie the program single-season record.

Jones has 62 RBIs as he moved into third place on the school single-season list.

Nebraska had 15 hits, led by Kale Kiser with three.

Junior left-hander Jordan Underwood (4-5) took the loss. He allowed four runs and seven hits in four innings.

Southeast used three more pitchers, with freshman Shae Simmons working a scoreless ninth inning that featured two strikeouts.