Garden City ends Cougars home schedule with twin bill sweep

Wrapping up its 2012 home schedule at Lawson-Biggs Field, the Barton Community College baseball team dropped both games of today's doubleheader 7-1 and 4-3 to Garden City Community College.  The Cougars fall to 30-24 on the season, finish seventh in the conference with a 12-20 record, and tied for sixth in the region at 10-18.  With today's sweep and winning 3-of-4 over the weekend, Garden City will share at least a tie for the conference title and a second place in the region in finishing at 23-9 and 19-9 respectively and 36-19 overall.  Barton's next game will be Tuesday in Emporia against Coffeyville Community College.  First pitch for the 9-inning game is scheduled for 4:00 p.m. at Emporia State University's Glennen Field.

Highlights – Game One
Garden City's Matt Geislinger kept the Cougar batters off balance in game one throwing a two-hit 7-1 victory.  The Busters' damage came in the second inning as they plated four then later added two in the fourth and one in the fifth.  The lone Barton run came in the bottom of the fifth on a two-out RBI single back Zac Villalpando.

Highlights – Game Two
Garden City jumped out ahead by scoring single runs in the first and second. The Cougars tied the score in the second behind the leadoff double by Dylan Turpin followed by consecutive singles from Andre Vierya, Villalpando, and Tanner Carpenter.  Michael Edlefsen pushed across the second run on a sacrifice fly to center field.

The teams remained tied at two until the Busters struck for two runs on three hits including two doubles.  Adam Smith led off the home half with a double then later scored on a Ryan Tracy groundout and throwing error by the Garden City first baseman.  Barton then got consecutive singles by Alex King and Andre Vieyra to give the Cougars a first and second base one-out situation.  The Cougars rally was short lived as Alex King was doubled up at second off a line drive from Villalpando to end the game.