Lady Cougars drop extra-inning shootout with North Central Texas College

A five-run seventh inning rally wasn't quite good enough Sunday for the Barton Community College softball team as the Lady Cougars fell in eight innings 14-11 to North Central Texas College.   In playing the first of two games on the final day of the BUCO Bash held in El Dorado, Kansas, Barton pounded out fourteen hits including five coming in the bottom of the seventh to force extra innings but three of NCTC's twelve hits in the eighth proved to be the difference.  Barton drops to 20-12 on the season heading into their final game of the Bash against Northern Oklahoma College-Tonkawa at 2:00 p.m.  

Erica Harper continued her hot bat going 3-for-5 driving in four runs including three coming on her nation leading 13th homer of the season tying the game in the first inning.   Jenna Hosey also had a big game going 3-for-4 connecting on her third homerun of the season two outs after Harper's first inning homer.  Braydee Bakovich and Caitlin Garcia both anchored the lower lineup each going 2-for-4, none bigger coming in the bottom of the seventh as Bakovich's two out two RBI double drew Barton to within one and Garcia's single to cap the Lady Cougars' five run seventh inning to tie it up.

Taylor Bugner worked the final 6.2 innings taking the loss dropping to 9-4 on the season.