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Barton picks up big Jayhawk win at Garden
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Updated: Oct 14, 2015, 5:00 AM
Published: Oct 13, 2015, 3:56 PM

It was a big match in the Jayhawk Conference. The men’s soccer contest between Barton and Garden City was an early playoff-type contest.
It was first and foremost a battle of one-loss teams fighting for the inside track to the second spot in the Jayhawk. But it was also an elimination game of sorts for the Jayhawk Conference Championship.
Thanks in large part to the play of sophomores standout Renan Sousa the Cougars proved they are an elite team in the conference with a 4-2 road win over the No. 17 Broncbusters.
“I was very pleased with the final result,” Barton Coach Aaron Avila said. “Garden City has a good team and they were ahead of us in the conference standings.”
The win put Barton with the advantage for the second seed in the Jayhawk. Barton, Garden City, and Cloud County all have 15 points in the conference but the Cougars are the only 5-1 team. Garden and Cloud are both 5-2.
It also keeps Barton in the running for that Jayhawk title on the heels of Pratt. Pratt is 6-0 with 18 points. Pratt has already beaten Barton but still has contests with Cloud and Garden left on the schedule.
The Cougars can tighten that grip on the second spot and keep the pressure on Pratt in its next outing as Barton travels to Concordia Thursday to take on Cloud in another crucial match. That will come off the heels of Cloud traveling to Pratt today.
The win at Garden came down the play of Sousa and a great second half by the Cougars.
Sousa picked up three assists for Barton. For many that is a once in a career moment or at least once in a season. For Sousa it is old hat. It is the third time this season he has recorded the assist hat trick.
Oh, and he scored the game’s first goal as well.
Sousa gave Barton a 1-0 lead with a goal just five minutes into the contest as he quickly established his presence in the contest. His 10th goal of the year gave him the lead on the team over Lucas Alves. Juan Barron picked up the assist.
Sousa didn’t keep that lead long in goals scored. After Garden City tied the match in the 15th minute Sousa got Alves his 10th goal. He hit Alves with a long pass then the freshman took it the final 25 yards and beat the keeper far post.
That gave Barton a 2-1 lead at the midway point of the opening half. Garden would tie it less than one minute later. The two teams would battle scoreless the final 23 minutes of the opening half.
For Garden, it would be its final goal the final 68 minutes of play.
The Barton defense went on lockdown in the second half. After allowing five shots on goal in the opening half, Barton gave Garden just one chance in the final 45 minutes.
“Some defensive mistakes on our part allowed them to stay in the game during the first half,” Coach Avila said. “We were able to do a better job defensively in the second half.”
While the defense was shutting down the Broncbusters, the Barton offense was still going strong.
Barton took the lead for good when Sousa found Sergio Ribeiro on a thru ball just shy of 20 minutes into the second half.
It didn’t take long for Barton to pad its lead with another Sousa to Alves goal three minutes later. That gave Sousa 14 assist and Alves 11 goals on the year.
From there Barton will keep the Busters at bay the final 24 minutes of the contest to earn the 4-2 win.
Now the Cougars ready for a big week of play in the conference – especially for Cloud as they travel to Pratt today and host Barton Thursday. The contest Thursday will kickoff at 4 p.m.
Second-place Cougars sweep Garden City
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The Barton Cougar softball team drilled five homers to spark a doubleheader sweep over Garden City 12-1 and 9-6 Sunday at Cougar Field. The Cougars (25-9, 19-3 Jayhawk) drop Garden City to 19-15, 11-9 Jayhawk. The Cougars travel to Dodge City Wednesday. Karter Alvord's grand slam ended game one 12-1 after Chloe Enslinger and Elina Bartlett homered earlier. Bartlett's 3-run shot in game two set the stage for a 9-6 victory for the Cougars' 14th straight win over Garden City. Alvord and Chloe Enslinger led the squad's 20 hits with 4-of-7 performances each, Alvord's 9th home run clinching game one as Enslinger's two-run shot in the opener's third frame posted her 14th home run of the year putting Barton up 3-0. Peyton McCormick finished 3-of-6 with three RBI, connecting on her 9th of the year on a solo fence clearer in the fourth inning of the nightcap for a 5-2 lead. Bartlett belted two home runs, opening with a 2-of-3 performance with a pair of RBI's including a fifth inning dinger before her 3-run blast in game two's first frame recorded her 6th of the year. Meleia Ingram (13-4) struck out nine batters, yielding a homer to Garden City's Alyssa Santana. Brooklynn Angielski (10-4) yielded 10 hits and struck out three batters. Reliever Alicia Goseland pitched two frames, yielding a trio of seventh-inning runs. COUGARS 12, GARDEN CITY 1 (G1) — Laney Wood's one-out single in the third would score on McCormick's reach on error, with Enslinger's two-run long ball growing the lead to 3-0. The Cougars scored four fifth-inning runs. Aly Lawrence tripled and scored on McCormick's sac fly. Bartlett's home run was followed by Ava Fink's 2-run single for a 7-1 lead. Garden City committed two errors with Lawrence and Enslinger reaching base. Bartlett's sac fly to left plated one. Thatcher's hit-by pitch set the table for Alvord's grand slam homer. COUGARS 9, GARDEN CITY 6 (G2) — Wood's leadoff walk scored on McCormick's first of two hits in the nightcap. Bartlett extending her consecutive game hit streak to 10 straight by connecting on a no-doubt, three-run blast for her second yard exiter of the twinbill. Garden City connected on five hits in the fourth inning to cut the deficit in half, three hits coming with two outs including Santana's 2-RBI single. McCormick's 9th long ball of the year got one of the runs back in the home half with Garden City answering in the top of the fifth on a one-out hit and stolen base scoring on a double. The Cougars fired back with a 4-run fifth inning. Fink's ground out pushed one across the dish with two more heading home on Wood's 8th double. A fielding error would close out the four-run frame. Garden City scored a trio of seventh-inning runs, Maria Avendan Fori's hit an RBI triple followed by Maysen Kurene-Iwikau's 8th homer. Garden City 000 010 — 1 4 4 Barton 003 045 — 12 11 0 Ballestra Vargas, Olison (5) and Vonk. Ingram and Enslinger. W—Ingram 13-4. L—Ballastra Vargas. 2B—BC—Lawrence. 3B—BC—Lawrence. HR—BC—Enslinger, Bartlett, Alvord; GC—Santana Garden City 000 210 3 — 6 14 2 Barton 400 140 x — 9 9 0 Kurere Iwikau, Powell (5) and Galicia. L—Kurere Iwakau. 2B—BC—Wood, Thatcher, Alvord; GC—Kurere Iwikau, Olison. 3BGC—Avendnu Fori. HR—BC—Barlett, McCormick; GC—Kurere Iwikau JAYHAWK WEST Hutchinson 19-1 27-5 Barton 179-3 25-9 Butler 12-4 23-5 Garden City 11-9 19-15 Dodge City 11-9 19-19 Seward 5-13 11-21 Pratt 5-15 9-25 Colby 4-14 23-18 Hays NW 0-18 0-26 4-6—Barton 12-9, Garden City 1-6; Hutchinson 8-9, Friends 0-1; Pratt at Seward; Dodge City at Garden City 4-7—Hutchinson at Butler; Pratt at Fort Scott 4-9—Barton at Dodge City; Seward at Butler; Garden City at Pratt; Hays NW at Colby 4-10—Seward at Hays NW
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