The Barton Community College baseball team capped the regular season this past weekend earning a four-game sweep of Garden City Community College.
On Thursday at Garden City's Williams Stadium, the Cougars erupted from the start with an eight-run first inning to win 13-0 in five-innings before completing the doubleheader sweep scoring 11-runs over their final three at-bats for a 14-1 seventh inning triumph.
Swapping locations to Lawson-Biggs Field on Friday, Barton sustained the momentum clinching the series with an opening 9-3 victory while posting their sixth shutout win of the season, 6-0 to secure the four-game sweep of the Broncbusters.
The Cougars conclude the conference season tied 4th at 19-13 and 37-19 overall while Garden City has its season end at 2-30 in league play and 6-45 on the year.
Next up for Barton is the Region VI Tournament, as the 10th-seeded Cougars will travel on the road for a best-of-3 series at 7th-seeded Fort Scott beginning Thursday at 1:00 p.m. from Lions Field.
10-different Cougars finished with multiple RBI performances over the weekend. Kyler Horsman led Barton's run production with six RBIs over three games, with the freshman launching a three-run blast in Friday's opening game for his third of the season which gifted the Cougars a 7-2 lead in the bottom of the fifth.
Benefitting behind 30-walks, Owen Clyne paced 12-different Cougars drawing a walk with six free passes while going 5-11 at the plate with four doubles, two-RBIs and seven runs.
Leadoff man Robby Bolin, hit .500 over the four-pack going 6-12 at the plate with a .647 on-base percentage, driving in a pair of runs, drawing four walks and crossing for five runs. Joining Bolin with a plus-.500 average over the weekend was Grant Nottlemann and Brock each going .667 and .600 respectfully at the plate.
Holding a 1.29 ERA as a pitching staff on the weekend, starting hurlers Reece Hemmerling, Aidan Sowers, Nathan Bowman and Ethan Minaker each eclipsed 5.0-innings in picking up the decisions on the mound permitting just four runs over 17 scattered hits and struck out 24 batters.
Relievers, Anthony Treto, Jackson MacWilliams and Preston Golden were solid out of the bullpen tossing five shutout innings, yielding three hits and striking out six.