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Cougars sweep Colby in Jayhawk play
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Updated: Apr 22, 2011, 3:18 AM
Published: Apr 22, 2011, 3:19 AM

The Barton Community College softball team earned its first sweep of the year on Wednesday afternoon, knocking off Colby twice at Cougar Fields 3-2 and 4-2.
The wins give Barton the No. 4 seed in the upcoming NJCAA Region VI playoffs and moved BCC to 3-27 overall and 3-11 in the region.
Colby fell to 5-29 overall and 1-13 in the region.
Barton lost a pair to Seward Monday at Cougar Fields, taking the second game into the seventh inning at 0-0 before eventually losing 5-0. Barton lost the opener 9-0.
Barton and Colby will meet again in the opening round of the playoffs in early May. The Cougars will close out their conference slate hosting Butler Wednesday of next week.
BCC won the opener against Colby with some late inning heroics.
The two teams went to the final inning scoreless before Colby put a pair of runs on the board for a 2-0 lead into the bottom of the seventh.
Tessa Sterling started the inning off for Barton with a single to center and moved to second when Anna Voss walked. A fielder’s choice moved Sterling to third.
Carly Schroeder doubled to right, scoring Sterling and moving Amanda Lanigan to third.
Then, an infield single by Chelsea Bauer loaded the bases with one out for Alyssa Ybarra. Ybarra, the Cougars’ leading hitter on the season, came through with a double to right center to score Lanigan and Schroeder and give Barton the 3-2 win.
Karen Harris went the distance to pick up the win for the Cougars, giving up just four hits in her seven innings of work. She struck out five and walked three. Bauer had 3 hits for Barton while Ybarra had 2 hits including the game winner.
In the nightcap, Colby took a 2-0 lead before Barton battled back to take the lead in the third inning with a four-run inning. From there the Cougars rode the relief effort of Sarah Schmidt pitching, allowing just two hits in her five innings of work to pick up the win.
In Barton’s key third inning, the first two batters were retired before the Cougars strung together six consecutive base runners.
Sterling again started things with a single and moved to second when Alex Rodriguez was hit by a pitch. A Colby error kept the inning alive and Voss made them pay with a single to tie the game.
Schroeder then delivered the lead to the Cougars with a two-run single and a 4-2 Barton lead that stood up for the win.
Cougar baseball shocks No. 3 Cowley Tigers
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Published: Apr 2, 2025, 9:54 PM
ARKANSAS CITY -- The Barton Cougar baseball team scored early and often plating 11 of its runs over the first four innings to upset No. 3 Cowley College 12-8 on Tuesday. The Cougars (21-8) have won four in a row over the Tigers (23-7). Barton plays Jayhawk West leader Colby at 1 p.m. Thursday at Lawson-Biggs Field. The Cougars travel to Colby Sunday. Tyler Janssen led the Cougars balanced offensive attack providing three of the Cougars six extra base hits on the afternoon, finishing 3-for-5 and single shy of the cycle. The freshman drove in four runs highlighted behind his fourth-inning three-run round tripper for his fourth of the year. Eight of Barton's nine in the lineup furnished a hit with Janssen being joined by Kyle Graves 3-for-6 day at the plate and RBI, as the duo combined for six of the Cougars 14 hits on the afternoon. Kyle Walker was second in runs produced, driving in two of his three runs during Barton's four run top of the second frame, finishing 2-for-5 at the dish with a walk. Rounding out the Cougars' multi-RBI performances was Ayden Hadley and Wyatt Yetter, each driving in two runs apiece. Hadley distributed his pair with a first inning double while Yetter added the final run of a three-run first on a groundout followed by a leadoff fourth inning blast for his first big fly of the season. Despite finishing 0-for-1 at the plate, Barrett Donaldson generated three of Barton's nine walks created with a run scored. Braden Hauschel earned a no-decision in his one-inning of work allowing three runs on two hits with a walk and strikeout. Eli Lang (1-0) notched his first collegiate victory tossing 4.1-innings in relief scattering seven hits and three runs with Landon Haines getting the final two outs of the sixth allowing one hit with a stirkeout. Andrew McCarthy tossed a scoreless seventh with a strikeout while operating around a pair of walks. Cade Kunz handled the eighth yielding two runs on a hit and collected a strikeout before handing off to Preston Golden for the ninth, as the sophomore locked it down
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