The Jets of Newman University (4-5) swept a pair of games on opening day from the Peacock baseball team. Upper Iowa's (0-2) bats were strong in Wichita as the team hit .364 on the day with 22 runs on 28 hits including seven extra base hits, but pitching and defense struggled in the losses. UIU committed five errors in the field and allowed Newman to hit .348 with 28 runs on 23 hits over 14 innings in the field.
 
A wild sixth inning in game one proved to be the difference in the season opener. Upper Iowa and Newman combined for 10 runs on nine hits as the lead changed hands twice during the late innings. After allowing a pair of runs to the Jets in the bottom of the fifth, the Peacocks found themselves trailing by a run, 7-5, heading into the sixth. Mitch Moser, Alex George and Colton Janssen all picked up rbi-singles in the inning as Upper Iowa scored four runs on three hits to take a 9-7 lead with just six outs to go. Newman didn't UIU anytime with the lead as they stormed back with a 6-hit, 6-run inning; all six runs scored with two outs highlighted by a three-run double and a two-run single.  UIU knocked one run off the margin after Anthony Calton led off with a double and came around to score on a Moser ground out, but the Peacocks couldn't cross the plate again losing 13-10.
 
UIU jumped out first with a pair of runs on three hits in the first inning fueled by and rbi-double off the bat of Janssen to chase home Moser, who tripled with one out. Janssen scored on Emmett Kulick's double to left.
 
The Jets climbed out to a 4-2 lead with four runs on just one hit in the second inning thanks to a hit batsmen and two walks to open the frame. Newman added an unearned run in the third without getting a hit to push their lead to 5-2 heading to the fourth.
 
The Peacocks tied the game in the fourth with three runs on five hits highlighted by a Luis Ravelo rbi, a Moser rbi-single and an rbi from Janssen on a single to right.
 
Newman broke the tie with two runs in the bottom of the fifth to get their 7-5 lead heading into the wild sixth inning.
 
Ross Kulick (0-1) suffered the loss in relief with four runs allowed on six hits in two-thirds of an inning. Zackary Cain started and threw three innings allowing just one hit, but five runs including three unearned scores. Tanner Poor was the first Peacock out of the bullpen throwing two and a third innings and allowing four runs, two earned, on three hits.
 
Moser, George and Janssen combined for 8 of UIU's 13 hits in the game in the second through fourth spot in the lineup and Calton went 2-2 in the ninth spot in the order. Both Moser and Janssen drove in 3 runs.
 
In the second game, the Peacocks were first on the scoreboard again with three runs in the top of the third inning. All of the runs came with two outs in the inning as the Peacocks put four hits together including rbi-singles to left from Janssen and Cain. The third run scored on a throwing error on the infield that would have closed the frame.
 
The Jets answered emphatically in the bottom of the inning with 9 runs, four of which were unearned, on five hits chasing UIU's starter Tyus Adkins off the mound after he worked through the first two innings allowing just one hit and recording three strikeouts. The home team added three more runs in the fourth inning to push their lead to 12-3.
 
Upper Iowa began to chip away at the lead in the top of the fifth with a pair of runs when Emmett Kulick hit an rbi-triple to center and scored on an error as the ball came back in. The Peacocks still trailed 12-5 in the seventh inning when it was their turn to put a big, crooked number on the scoreboard. UIU scored five runs on four hits fueled by Kulick's three-run homerun to left and a pair of run-scoring singles from Cain and Luis Ravelo. The Peacocks were poised to keep the rally going with runners on second and third with just one out, but a pair of strikeouts ended the threat and left the Peacocks behind by two runs, 12-10.
 
Once again, the home team had an answer and opened their lead back to five, 15-10, with three runs on four hits highlighted by a two-run triple.
 
The Peacocks pulled back within three runs in the top of the ninth when Calton tripled in Hillesheim, who led the inning off with a single, and then scored on a ground out to short by Ravelo.  UIU couldn't push any more runs home as they fell by three runs for the second time on their opening day.
 
Kulick had three hits in the second game, while Ravelo, George, Cain, Hillesheim and Calton all added a pair of hits. Kulick racked up four rbi and Cain and Ravelo each drove in a pair of base runners.
 
Adkins (0-1) suffered the loss allowing 8 runs, 5 earned, on 6 hits in 2 innings of work. Nate Skare, Mitch Silberstein and Mac Wolfe all came out of the pen in relief for UIU. Wolfe threw 1.2 innings of shutout baseball to stop the Jets' final rally.
 
The two teams will get back together on Sunday for another double header beginning at 12 p.m.