The Barton Community College baseball team finished off a four-game sweep over Dodge City Community College on Sunday, taking the twinbill at Cavalier Field 10-6 in extra innings and 18-4.
The victories run the Cougars unbeaten streak to six straight, improving to 7-5 in conference play and 19-6 overall. Dodge City drops to 2-6 in league and 12-8 on the year.
Barton will step out of conference play for its next four-game series, traveling to Region VI member Coffeyville Community College on Thursday before welcoming the Ravens to Lawson-Biggs Field on Saturday. A 1:00 p.m. first pitch is slated for each day's doubleheader.
The Cougars pounded out 24 hits in the fifteen innings played including 7 home runs. Two of the big flies came from Connor Scott in game one with his second putting Barton on top leading off the extra frame's 8th inning sparking the Cougars five runs.
On the mound, Zach Thornton struck out a career high 10 batters in five innings of game one with Carson Cornelius throwing the final three frames in striking out three to pick up his first collegiate victory. Game two reliever Logan Phillips nearly pitched a perfect 4.1 innings on the hill, striking out a career high six in keeping the Dodge City bats silent with no hits with one walk and two hit batsmen impriving to 2-1 on the year.
Scott went 6-for-10 on the afternoon while Shawn Marquis' four connections in seven plate appearances drove in a team high 6 RBIs.
Wade Reynolds, Jackson Hartley, and Jace Stewart also contributed to the home run total, connecting for their first collegiate fence clearers helping Barton to the big 18-4 game two victory.
Game One Recap:
The Cougars scored two in the second on Shively's home run with Scott's solo shot staking the Cougars to a 3-0 lead in the third.
Dodge City pushed four across in the home half of the third, three coming on a two-out three-run fence clearer.
Marquis gave the Cougars the lead back in the top of the 4th with a 2-RBI single with Dodge City getting the tying run in the bottom of the sixth on an 0-2 2-out pitch RBI single.
Originally scheduled for seven innings, the tied ball game sent the contest into extra innings with Scott's leadoff home run igniting the Cougar offense after being sent down in order the previous three innings. Shively would later draw a bases loaded game-winning RBI walk with Stewart following with a 2-RBI single and Marquis' bunt single driving in the Cougars' final fifth run of the frame.
Dodge City plated a two-out single to close out the scoring.
Game Two Recap:
Dodge City hit three home runs on the afternoon, two coming on the first two batters of game two getting the Conquistadors out front early.
Caden Bressler connected on his first of three hits in the nightcap with a one out triple in the top of the second, scoring later on Marquis' bases loaded RBI walk cutting the deficit in half.
Barton took the lead for good in the third fourth, Bressler and Shively leadoff hits scoring on Marquis' two-out triple and a wild pitch plating Marquis for the 4-2 lead.
Reynolds tacked on another run in the top of the fifth, launching a 1-0 pitch out to left center.
The Cougars plated six in the sixth frame, three coming from Micah Grover's second home run of the season and the other three coming on Hartley's belt of a 2-1 pitch in a near identical left-center location as Grover's.
Barton wasn't done scoring on the day, tacking on seven more in the final seventh inning. The big blow came on Stewart's 3-run 2-0 pitch drive out to right center with Scott finishing off the Cougars' scoring with a RBI single.