(Macomb, Ill.) — The Omaha baseball team took the first game of a four-game set with Western Illinois 3-0 on Thursday.
The Mavericks scored all three of their runs in the top of the first to improve to 28-20, 12-9.
Tyler Fox picked up his ninth victory of the season, throwing 7.0 innings, allowing six hits, with four strikeouts. Anthony Falcone picked up his fourth save of the year, pitching the last 2.0 innings.
With the win, Omaha has a one-game lead on the Leathernecks in the Summit League. The teams will play a doubleheader at noon on Friday. If the Mavericks win two more games in the series, they will claim their second-straight regular season Summit League title.
A link to live stats of the remaining games can be found at omavs.com
