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April 21, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Release by Mike Marzolf
The Barton Community College softball team earned its first sweep of the year Wednesday afternoon knocking off Colby twice at Cougar Fields 3-2 and 4-2. The wins give Barton the No 4 seed in the upcoming Region VI playoffs. The wins moved Barton to 3-27 overall and 3-11 in the region. Colby fell to 5-29 overall and 1-13 in the region. Barton lost a pair to Seward Monday at Cougar Fields, taking the 2nd game into the 7th at 0-0 before eventually losing 5-0. Barton lost the opener 9-0. Barton and Colby will meet again in the opening round of the playoffs in early May. The Cougars will close out their conference slate hosting Butler Wednesday of next week.
Highlights
Barton won the opener with some late inning heroics. The two teams went to the final inning scoreless before Colby put a pair of runs on the board for a 2-0 lead into the bottom of the 7th. But Barton didn’t get down. Instead, the Cougars came out with a purpose. Tessa Sterling started the inning off with a single to center and moved to 2nd on a walk to Anna Voss. A fielder’s choice moved Sterling to 3rd. Carly Schroeder doubled to right, scoring Sterling and moving Amanda Lanigan to 3rd. An infield single by Chelsea Bauer loaded the bases with 1 out for Alyssa Ybarra. Ybarra, the Cougars’ leading hitter on the season, came through with a double to right center to score Lanigan and Schroeder and give Barton the 3-2 win.
Karen Harris went the distance to pick up the win for the Cougars, giving up just 4 hits in her 7 innings of work. She struck out 5 and walked 3. Bauer had 3 hits for Barton while Ybarra had 2 hits including the game winner. Sterling had 2 hits as well for Barton in the win.
In the nightcap with Colby took a 2-0 lead before Barton battled back to take the lead in the 3rd with a 4-run inning. From there the Cougars rode the relief effort of Sarah Schmidt pitching, allowing just 2 hits in her 5 innings of work to pick up the win. In Barton’s key 3rd inning, the 1st 2 batters were retired before the Cougars strung together 6 consecutive base runners. Sterling again started things with a single and moved to 2nd when Alex Rodriguez was hit by a pitch. A Colby error kept the inning alive and Voss made them pay with a single to tie the game. Schraeder then delivered the lead to the Cougars with a 2-run single and a 4-2 Barton lead that stood up for the win.
Barton nearly pulled off the upset in the 2nd game against Seward Monday. Barton held the Saints scoreless through the 1st 6 innings of play before the Saints broke free for 5 runs in the top of the 7th for a 5-0 win. Barton’s Karen Harris took a no-hitter into the 6th and a 1-hitter into the 7th. The Saints collected 6 hits in that final inning. Seward jumped out to an early lead in the opener Monday scoring 4 in the 3rd and 3 more in the 4th on the way to the 9-0 win.
In addition to the Butler contest Wednesday to close out the conference season, the Cougars have rescheduled with McCook for a non conference doubleheader Friday of next at 2 pm. The Butler game was originally scheduled to be played in El Dorado but the teams switched home dates due to the weather earlier this season.
Next
April 27 – v Butler 3 pm (Jayhawk West doubleheader at Cougar Fields)
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