Eight run fifth propels Saints to game two victory
Seward County Community College broke open game two of the weekend series with a eight run fifth inning to defeat Barton Community College 15-7 Friday at Lawson-Biggs Field. With the loss Barton trails the four-game series 0-2 with first pitch of Saturday's doubleheader beginning at 1:00 p.m.
Game 2
Game 2
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
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2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 17 | 1 |
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0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 15 | 2 |
Seward struck for four runs in the first two innings, two RBI coming from Bryson Allen who homered in the first and singled in the second. Barton's King, who would go 4-for-4 in the game, led off the third with a single then stole second and third base before Aaron Gile's two-out triple drove King home.
Getting singles from Griffith and Allen and an RBI double from Keenan Hall, the Saints pushed their lead back to five getting two runs in in the top of the fourth. The Cougars countered with three in the home half getting singles by Bowman and King and doubles by Coombs and Erik Benson.
Eight runs in the Seward fifth put the game away as the Saints pounded out seven hits including doubles by Scanlan, Cruz, and Hall and a two-run homerun by Bret Lewis.
Barton scored an unearned run in the seventh and another in the eighth behind a Nathan Train RBI single scoring King. Seward got their final run in the top of the eighth courtesy of a Griffith RBI double.
Austin King got the win for the Saints pitching five innings with eight hits and four earned runs but struck out eight. Brett Tunnell took the loss for Baron giving up six runs in four innings of work with five strikeouts.