Quick start advances Barton Softball into the second round of the Region 6 Tournament, setting up Friday evening matchup with second-seeded Hutchinson #GoBarton

The Barton Community College softball team won its opening round game of the Region 6/Plains District Tournament Friday afternoon 5-1 over Colby Community College at Dodge City's Legends Park.

The Cougars did all their damage in their first at-bat sending 11 different batters to the plate producing four of their eight hits while benefitting off three walks and a hit batsman for a 5-0 first inning lead.

Seeded 3rd in the tournament, Barton improves to 33-14 on the year advancing to Friday evening's 6:00 p.m. winner's bracket contest with No. 2 seeded Hutchinson Community College (36-9). The Blue Dragons survived No. 7 seeded Seward County Community College 1-0 in their earlier contest. Colby now 30-26 on the year will look to keep their season alive meeting the Saints in the elimination contest also scheduled for 6:00 p.m.

The victor of the Barton and Hutchinson matchup moves on to Saturday's winner's bracket 4:00 p.m. semifinal against the winner of top seeded Butler Community College and No. 4 Garden City Community College.

Aly Lawrence's one-out solo-shot to straight away center for her fifth of the season opened the scoring. Elina Bartlett's double four batters later increased the lead to 3-0 scoring Allyson McDougal's single and Peyton McCormick's two-out walk. Karter Alvord's ensuing RBI single added a fourth run with Laney Wood's bases loaded walk capping the five-run inning.

Barton had a pair of prime scoring opportunities but came up empty in the second leaving the bases loaded and stranding McDougal's leadoff triple to open the fourth.

In the circle, Brooklynn Angielski tossed four perfect innings before back-to-back leadoff singles in the fifth formed Colby's lone run of the game coming off the third Trojan single in the frame. Following the fourth single of the inning, the sophomore worked out of the jam with a strikeout and groundout keeping Colby to just one run.

Angielski improved to 12-7 on the season tossing her eighth complete game of the season, scattering six hits, one run with a pair of strikeouts.