20th ranked Barton Baseball drops doubleheader to Seward County; Cougars settle for series split with Saints #GoBarton

The 20th ranked Barton Community baseball team couldn't sustain the offensive momentum from Thursday's doubleheader sweep against Seward County Community College on Saturday at Lawson-Biggs Field.

The Cougars were limited to a combined eight runs in the doubleheader loss to the Saints with Seward County taking both games Saturday by scores of 5-4 and 5-4.

Snapping its' 13-game winning streak, the Cougars fall to 12-4 in conference play and 25-8 overall while the victories snap the Saints two-game skid improving to 6-6 in league play and 18-17 overall.

Barton's next series is a four-game set with Dodge City Community College as the Cougars play host to the Conquistadors Thursday afternoon at 1:00 p.m. before concluding the series Saturday in Dodge City.

Game 1 Recap (L 5-4 (10))
Battling back from a one-run deficit in the seventh to force extra innings, Barton's second rally attempt fell short in the 10-inning, 5-4 loss.

Trailing 4-3 in the seventh, Cesar Gomez one-out drawn walk fashioned the first rally needed. Pinch running Kaden Stones, a steal of second and Saints error advancing him to third formed the tying run on Robby Bolin's RBI fielder's choice to force extra innings.

Taking advantage of back-to-back leadoff singles in the top of the 10th, Keagon Pitton's sacrifice fly brought the decisive run across.

In the bottom of the 10th, Barton's final rally attempt fell empty as back-to-back fly outs with the bases loaded stranded Owen Clyne's third hit of the day, Jaron Cotton's single and one-out Grant Nottlemann hit-by-pitch.

Bradley Feezer started earning a no-decision going 4.2-innings and allowed eight hits, three runs with two strikeouts.

Nathan Bowman went 0.1-innings allowing a run on two hits while Kyler Horsman suffered the loss (1-1) working 5.0-innings out of the bullpen surrendering one run on four hits.

Game 2 Recap (L 5-4)
Bolin doubles in the first and third innings generated Barton's 2-0 lead through three innings scoring on Clyne's first inning RBI single and Cotton's third inning RBI single.

Down 3-2 in the fourth following a three-run Seward County fence clearer, the Cougars stormed back with Barrett Donaldson's run producing single brought home Hank Orr's one-out triple with a Saints wild pitch scoring Donaldson pushing Barton in front 4-3.

Barton's lone error to open the sixth permitted the tying run with the eventual game winning run coming in the top of the seventh on a two-out RBI single.

The Cougars outhit the Saints 11-10 with Bolin, Clyne, Ayden Hadley and Donaldson each piecing together two-hit performances.

Starting hurler Ethan Minaker tossed six-strong innings yielding eight hits, four runs, three earned, walking one and striking out three in the no decision effort.

Jackson MacWilliams (1-1) suffered the loss in relief scattering two hits and one run in 1.0-inning of work.