The Barton Community College opened the Region VI Tournament Saturday morning with a 5-4 come from behind victory over Colby Community College.   The victory advances the 20-22 Lady Cougars to the 2:00 p.m. game against the top seeded and No. 7 ranked Butler Community College.  Colby dropped to 10-39 and will fight to keep their season alive playing Garden City Community College in the 4:00 p.m. elimination game.  Garden City dropped to the elimination game being beat 2-1 by Seward County Community College in the noon game.

Colby picked up single runs in the first and second inning before Barton could respond in the fourth.  Freshman Allison Smith belted her fifth homerun on the season with a one-out solo blast off the left field scoreboard cutting the deficit in half.

Colby responded in the top of fifth getting a single run to push the lead back out to two.  Just like the Barton fourth, the Lady Cougars got a one-out solo shot as Erika Harper banged one off the left field scoreboard to draw Barton back to one.   Ashlyn Osborne then singled to left but was thrown out at second on a Smith fielder's choice while a Colby error advance Smith into scoring position at second.  Sammie White checked in as courtesy runner and Britney Meyer promptly sent her home lacing a double down the third base line tying the game up at three.  Stephanie Morrison then drew a walk setting up Darby Grizzard for the opportunity to drive in runs as the sophomore delivered with a single down the right field line as Barton tacked on two more runs to take a 5-3 lead.

Osborne pitched out of a two-on jam in the sixth but Colby wasn't about to go quiet in the seventh, getting consecutive one-out singles and a fielder's choice to cut it to one.   Colby's Miranda Maiers was the last hope for the Lady Trojans but popped up to Osborne to end the game.

Osborne went the distance to improve to 12-12 on the season giving up twelve hits and two earned runs, walking three, and striking out seven.

Grizzard, Meyer, and Harper each had multi-hit games as the trio joined Smith as having one RBI each.