Monday's trip to Arkansas City didn't fare so well for the Barton Community College softball team with 19th ranked Cowley College out of the NJCAA's Division II limiting the Cougars to just one run for a 5-1 and 7-0 doubleheader sweep.
The losses snapped a six-game win streak dropping Barton to 28-13 on the year with Cowley improving to 24-17.
Two 1:00 p.m. conference doubleheaders remain on the regular season schedule for the Cougars with a Wednesday trip to Independence Community College followed Monday's game hosting 11th ranked Butler Community College.
Game One Recap
Barton's lone run in the day's fourteen innings came in the first frame of game one as Jaelyn Carter's leadoff single eventually scored after a Nasadiya Salazar's sac bunt and a two-out Tiger error.
The Cougars stranded nine baserunners in the game behind six total hits with Carter adding a double seventh inning double to her total with Lia Chan also collecting two hits including a two-bag hit in the sixth.
Just like Barton did in the opening frame, Cowley worked the same magic in the home half with a leadoff single being moved around to cross the plate with two outs on a wild pitch.
The Tigers did their damage in the fourth behind a leadoff double followed by an error before a one-out three-run big fly put the hosts out front by three.
Barton's third error of the game allowed the fifth run to hit the scoreboard with a leadoff single providing the solo tally of the inning scoring on a one-out infield misplay.
Having won four contests in the circle last week, Tia Kohl took the loss after 4.1 innings of work walking just one while striking out seven.
Game Two Recap
Salazar connected for one of the Cougars' five hits in the nightcap, sending a line drive to center in the first inning but was left as the first of six runners stranded on the base paths.
Karsyn Smith (6-4) took the ball for game two, getting two outs after a leadoff single. An RBI double erupted a hitting spree of three consecutive hits to push across two more runs before a devastating two-RBI double after six fouled off 0-2 pitches put the fourth and fifth spot on the board.
Kohl made her second appearance of the afternoon entering the bottom of the second, striking out four over the course of the final five innings. Scattering just four hits along the way, the final pair proved costly as a sixth inning leadoff single trotted home on a two-out long ball capping the Tigers' scoring.
Barton never threatened the rest of the way in managing just a pair of single hit innings before stranding a pair of hits in the seventh.