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April 12, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Release by Mike Marzolf
The Barton Community College softball team put together a 7th-inning rally Monday afternoon in its opener with Pratt at Cougar Fields but came up short. Barton also lost the 2nd game to the visiting Beavers. Barton lost 7-4 and 10-0 to Pratt. The Cougars lost over the weekend at Sterling twice as well. Barton is now 1-23 on the season. The Cougars will continue a run of home games with two more at Cougar Fields Wednesday and Thursday. Barton will host Garden City in Jayhawk West play Wednesday at 3 pm for a twinbill then play host to McCook College in a non-conference doubleheader Thursday at 2 pm.
Highlights
The Cougars dug themselves a deep hole in the opener with Pratt, trailing 4-0 after the 1st inning and 6-0 after the 2nd. Barton scored a single run in the 3rd when Alex Rodriguez scored on a single by Abigail Olmedo. The Cougars went to the 7th down 7-1 when they started to rally. Aleeya Ybarra started the inning with a single and Tessa Sterling followed with a double. A Rodriguez ground out scored Ybarra. Back-to-back singles by Christine Macias and Olmedo produced another run to cut the lead to 7-3 with still 2 on and just 1 out. After an Anna Voss fly out the Beavers kept Barton in the game when an error on the Pratt right fielder off a fly ball by Kristin Schartz kept the inning going. Macias scored on the error to make it 7-4 and bring the tying run to the plate. But that is where the rally ended for Barton following a ground out.
Barton did not have that rally in game two after a big 2nd inning by Pratt. Pratt used 3 Barton errors and 4 hits of their own to plate 8 unearned runs in the inning and Barton never recovered.
The Cougars dropped a pair of games Saturday at Sterling, losing 8-6 and 11-5. Barton fell behind 7-2 in the opener before rallying to cut the lead to 7-6 in the 6th. Amanda Lanigan had 3 hits in the loss, driving in a pair of runs. A 7-run 3rd by Sterling in the 2nd game put Barton in a hole that was too big to dig out of. Barton had 12 hits in the game but left 11 runners on base. Ybarra, Carly Schraeder, Macias, and Olmedo each had two hits and Schartz drove in two.
Next
April 13 – v Garden 3 pm (Jayhawk West doubleheader at Cougar Fields)
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