Nebraska beat up South Alabama pitching for the second straight afternoon on the way to a 9-3 victory at Stanky Field on Sunday and a three-game weekend sweep.

After pounding out 14 hits and taking advantage of five Jaguars errors in a 15-3 win on Saturday, the Cornhuskers bashed four home runs among 13 hits Sunday against Garfield Johns and three relievers. Nebraska (3-3-1) won a tightly contested duel 5-4 on Friday night, but jumped out to 4-0 leads early and cruised to victory in both of the final two games of the series.

“We just got beat today,” I thought Johns wasn’t as sharp this week as last week. We cleaned some things up defensively. We made one miscue, the ball kind of in no-man’s land in center field. We’ve got to make that play, but our guys competed hard.”

South Alabama (4-4) made just one error on Sunday, but it was a costly dropped popup that led to a 2-run fourth inning for the Cornhuskers. That turned a 4-1 Nebraska lead into 6-1, and the game was effectively over.

Josh Caron was the big hitter for Nebraska on Sunday, going 3-for-4 with a pair of home runs and five RBIs. The Cornhuskers’ catcher and cleanup man singled in Max Anderson with two outs in the first, then ripped a two-run homer to left in the third against Johns, who allowed six runs (four earned) on eight hits and two walks with three strikeouts in three-plus innings.

South Alabama got Will Turner’s RBI triple in the third and Joseph Sullivan’s two-run homer in the fourth to pull within 6-3, but got no closer. Nebraska right-hander Michael Garza relieved starter Caleb Clark with no out and a man on in the third and shut the Jaguars down the rest of the way.

Garza (1-0) allowed a leadoff single to Turner in the fifth and a two-out walk to Diego Altamirano in the sixth, but nothing more in six innings. He struck out three and threw 44 strikes on 67 pitches.

“That was awesome to see,” Caron said of Garza. “He didn’t have a good outing last weekend, but he stayed the course and was the same guy he always is. He really just dominated today.”

Johns (0-1) also pitched into the fourth, but walked Cole Evans and then allowed Brice Matthews’ double to left before being lifted for Matthew DeLano. Dylan Carey then popped up to shallow right-center, but the ball went off the glove of both second baseman Erick Orbeta and right fielder Colson Lawrence for an error and a 5-1 lead.

After an infield out, Caron delivered a sacrifice fly to make it 6-1 Nebraska. DeLano gave up Garrett Angrim’s line drive homer in the fifth to make it 7-3, but otherwise was effective in four innings of relief.

Sam Knowlton pitched a 1-2-3 eighth for the Jaguars, including several fastballs clocked at 100 mph. Nebraska then reached Lawrence for back-to-back homers by Caron and Charlie Fischer in the ninth, giving the Cornhuskers a 6-run lead.

Turner had three of South Alabama’s eight hits, including a double to go with his triple. Sullivan’s homer, his first of the season, was the Jaguars’ only other extra-base hit.

“I thought our guys competed hard,” Calvi said. “It was a stark contrast defensively to yesterday. If we can keep moving forward and play good defense — we’ve got some arms, I think we have to get them in the right order. And we’ve got to start swinging the bats. We’ve got a couple of guys who aren’t off to good starts, and a couple of that are off to good starts. It’s just a matter of them all jelling and working together offensively.”

South Alabama hits the road for the first time this season on Tuesday, traveling to Tulane for a 6 p.m. first pitch.