INDIANAPOLIS – Sunday's contest between Creighton and Butler featured a rain delay, a hail delay and extra innings but in the end, the Bluejays would capture a 6-3 win over Butler to sweep the weekend series. Creighton moves along in the season with a 22-15 overall record and the Bulldogs are now 9-34.
 
Creighton owned a two-run lead heading into the sixth inning. Heads up base running by Keegan Connors would help BU get on the scoreboard in the sixth and a wild pitch would allow Jake DeFries to tie the game in the bottom of the eighth.
 
Each team added a run to the scoreboard in the ninth moving the game to extra innings. For Creighton, Tyler Lozano singled to score Andrew Meggs and Butler would fight back with a DeFries single that scored Billy Wurch.
 
The difference was in the 11th as Creighton scored three runs off four hits. Nolan Clifford, Lozano and Jack Grace all had RBI's in the inning.
 
Malakai Vetock got the win on the mound for Creighton and Dawson Taylor took the loss. CU starter Justin Kleinsorge was impressive over 7.1 innings of work. He struck out five and didn't issue a walk. In total, BU used seven pitchers against the Bluejays.
 
Butler will return to action on Wednesday with a 6 PM game at Evansville on ESPN+.