
Baseball Earns 10-7 Sunday Victory to Sweep Omaha In Opening Series
Feb 16, 2025 | Baseball
Cehajic (1-0) took a no-hitter into the sixth inning before exiting. He ended his afternoon allowing three runs in five innings with three hits allowed and four strikeouts in his first career start at Tulane. Will Clements had an effective performance out of the bullpen with three scoreless innings and three strikeouts.
Connor Rasmussen led the offense with three hits and runs scored. Matthias Haas continued his hot start to the season with two hits and two RBIs. Jason Wachs had a pair of hits and drew a pair of walks. Kaikea Harrison totaled two hits plus an RBI and a run scored. Tanner Chun recorded two RBIs plus a run scored and a walk.
The Tulane offense exploded for eight runs on five hits in the third inning. In the frame, Gavin Schulz, Haas, Jackson Linn, Harrison, Wachs all had an RBI while Chun totaled a pair on his triple.
The program added a run in the sixth inning on an RBI single from Haas and finished the scoring in the eighth inning when Brock Slaton was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded.
The loss went to Omaha's CJ Hood (0-1), who started the game for the Mavericks, and was tagged for two runs in his two innings of work. Landon Mueller surrendered four runs on four hits in his third of an inning thrown.
Next, Tulane welcomes in UNO for the first game of the Pelican Cup on Tuesday, Feb. 18, at 6:30 p.m. The program is also slated to hit the road for the first time this season next week with a trip to Hammond to take on Southeastern on Wednesday, Feb. 19, at 6 p.m. before returning home to host Loyola Marymount for a weekend series from Feb. 23-25 starting with first pitch on Friday at 6:30 p.m.
Notables
Tulane scored double digits in runs in all three games of the series for the first time ever against the same opponent to open the season…The team did scored 10+ runs in the first three games and wins of the season in 1988, but it was two games against Spring Hill and a contest against Southern...The sweep of Omaha was the first time that Tulane has taken the first three games of the season opening series since 2022 against UMass Lowell…This was only the 11th series sweep to start the year since 2000 (2001, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2025)…Through the first three games, Tulane's freshmen have accounted for seven hits, seven runs and nine RBIs…With the win the program upped its record to 9-3 all-time against current schools in the Summit League and 7-2 against Division I playing baseball schools from the state of Nebraska.
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Cehajic, Trey (1-0)
L: CJ Hood (0-1)
Batting:
RBI: Sam Beck 1 ; Tyler Bishop 3 ; Cardel Dick 1 ; Mason Gaines 2
SF: Sam Beck 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Sam Beck 1 ; Henry Zipay 2 ; Jackson Trout 1 ; Tyler Bishop 1 ; Eli Hoerner 1 ; Drew Borner 1
SB: Jackson Trout 1 ; Eli Hoerner 1
HBP: Jackson Trout 1 ; Eli Hoerner 1

Batting:
2B: Connor Rasmussen 1
3B: Chun, Tanner 1
RBI: Gavin Schulz 1 ; Haas, Matthias 2 ; Wachs, Jason 1 ; Berge, Cole 1 ; Nawrocki, Nolan 1 ; Harrison, Kaikea 1 ; Chun, Tanner 2
SF: Berge, Cole 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Larson, Sam 1 ; Connor Rasmussen 3 ; Gavin Schulz 1 ; Haas, Matthias 1 ; Wachs, Jason 1 ; Harrison, Kaikea 1 ; Chun, Tanner 1 ; Ayala, Bryson 1
SB: Berge, Cole 1
CS: Gavin Schulz 1
HBP: Nawrocki, Nolan 1