Cougars cure offensive woes with sweep of Friends JV
The Barton County Community College baseball team finally broke free of its chains on offense Thursday afternoon at Lawson Field with a sweep of the Friends JV in a break from conference action. Barton, which had scored just 4 runs in the previous 4 games, busted out with a 10-run 5th inning the opener for a 10-4 win over the Falcons. The Cougars completed the sweep with a 10-0 shutout. Barton is now 21-18 on the season.
Cougars cure offensive woes with sweep of Friends JV
The Barton County Community College baseball team finally broke free of its chains on offense Thursday afternoon at Lawson Field with a sweep of the Friends JV in a break from conference action. Barton, which had scored just 4 runs in the previous 4 games, busted out with a 10-run 5th inning the opener for a 10-4 win over the Falcons. The Cougars completed the sweep with a 10-0 shutout. Barton is now 21-18 on the season.
Highlights
Barton struggled at the plate for the 1st 4 innings and found themselves trailing the Friends JV by a 3-0 score. The 5th started with an Eric Whinery walk and Jordan Bruns single. Matt Coatman then caught the Friends left fielder playing too shallow and drove in Whinery and Bruns with a triple and later scored on a wild pitch to tie the game at 3-all.
The Cougars next 3 batters all reached and scored for Barton as Andrew Giambrone, Brent Biggs, and Andrew Small all reached base and scored to give Barton a 6-3 lead. Bruns later drove in a pair with a single as the Cougars put up double digits in the inning. Small had 3 hits in the game for Barton and added a pair of RBI as well. Brock Nehls picked up the win in relief, going 1 1/3 innings of no-hit baseball.
In the nightcap, the Cougars started scoring from the onset. Barton put up two runs in the opening inning – both unearned – as they took advantage of a Friends error. Logan Smith doubled in Biggs and Chris Evans for the 2-0 lead. Barton added 4 more in the 2nd with some help of 2 more Friends errors, taking a 6-0 lead. Barton came close to taking the 10-run lead in the 4th, scoring 3 times to make it 9-0. In the inning Smith, Robbie Adams and Mark Stoltz each drove in runs.
Barton won the game in the bottom of the 5th when Giambrone led off the inning with a triple and scored on a Biggs single to center. Starter Luke Kramer threw his longest stint of the season, going 4 innings of shutout baseball. Kramer had thrown just two innings prior to his stint – both scoreless. He has not given up a run in 6 innings of work and is 1-0.
Stats
Complete stats can be found at www.bartonccc.edu
Next
Sat., April 16 – at Cloud County, 1 pm (Jayhawk West doubleheader in Concordia)