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May 20, 2006

Box Score

Waterloo, Iowa -

It may have been senior night, but sophomore Aaron Jenkins stole the show. An eight-inning, two-hit effort punctuated by eight strikeouts propelled the Panthers to a 3-0 shutout victory over Creighton and gave UNI a 2-1 series victory. The Panthers finish the season with a 28-27 overall record and a 10-14 conference record, good for a seventh place tie in the Valley.

Jenkins (Brooklyn Park, Minn.) and Creighton hurler Zak Moore went inning for inning until a trio of Panther seniors broke the scoreless trend in the fifth. Nate Trumm (Worthington, Iowa) kicked off the threat with a single while Clayton Daniels (Moulton, Iowa) followed with a walk. Both runners moved into scoring position when a wild Moore fastball found the dirt and the backstop. Trumm and Daniels crossed the plate when Pat Moran (Rapid City, SD) sliced a double down the right field line, giving the Panthers a 2-0 advantage through five.

The seventh inning mirrored the fifth with Trumm and Moran providing the spark for the Panther offense to push across another run. Nick Cameron (Des Moines, Iowa) led off the inning with a double. Trumm moved him into scoring position with a walk and Moran drove him in with a single through the left side, giving the Panthers a 3-0 lead after seven. Two more shutout innings ensured the 3-0 victory.

Jenkins was brilliant in a career high eight-inning effort. The sophomore threw a variety of off-speed pitches and used a devastating back door curve ball to sit down eight Bluejays on strikes. A third inning with bases full of Bluejays and an eighth-inning single were the only blemishes on Jenkins' spectacular showing. The sophomore bowed out following the eighth with a two hit, eight strikeout effort to his credit. Eric Hoffmann (Erskine, Minn) threw the ninth for his first career save.

Moran was solid in the nine hole, finishing his final collegiate game 2-3 with all three Panther RBI. Fellow senior Trumm singled and scored in the fifth. Brett Featherston (Epworth, Iowa) put his name in the record book with a fourth-inning walk, his second of the evening and 40^th of the season. The walk tied him with Tom Bach (1990) for the single-season UNI walk record.

The Panthers also finished the season with a 4.63 earned run average, their lowest since joining Division I in 1981.

UNI honored seven seniors this evening: Clayton Daniels, Mark Frieske, Brett Iverson, Zach Jevne, Pat Moran, Nate Trumm and Drew Wold.