Seward County returned the favor and swept Barton’s baseball team by identical 5-4 scores.
SEWARD 5, COUGARS 4 (G1) – Seward’s Cameron Cartwright scored on a 10th-inning sacrifice fly by Keagon Pitton for a 5-4 victory.
Seward’s Trenton Rowan singled home Cartwright for a 1-0 lead. After a 1-1 tie, Mason Hagel-Pitt delivered an RBI for a 2-1 lead.
Barton responded with two third-inning runs for a 3-2 Cougar lead. Hagel-Pitt doubled home Cartwright and Rowan for a 4-3 fifth-inning lead.
Barton tied it 4-4.
SEWARD 5, COUGARS 4 (G2) – Hagel-Pitt’s RBI single drove home Sergio Castro for the game winning seventh-inning run.
Barton led 2-0 after three innings.
Hagel-Pitt drilled a 3-run fourth-inning homer for a 3-2 lead. Barton regained the lead 4-3 with two fourth-inning runs.
Kaden Juarez’s RBI single tied it 4-4 in the sixth inning.
Seward 101 020 000 1 – 5 14 3
Barton 102 000 000 0 – 4 7 0
2B—SC—Cartwright, Rowan, Hagel-Pitts
Seward 000 301 1 – 5 10 1
Barton 101 200 0 – 4 7 0
Gerber, Wilcox (7) and Gilbert. 2B—SC—Hopkins. HR—SC—Gagel-Pitts
JAYHAWK MEN
Hutchinson 17-3 32-8
Cloud 12-4 26-12
Butler 12-4 23-15
Dodge City 11-5 26-12
Barton 13-7 28-11
Seward 6-10 18-21
Pratt 4-16 17-24
Colby 4-16 6-32
Garden City 1-15 5-30
4-4—Barton 7-0, Dodge City 7-3; Hutchinson 12-4, Seward 2-3; Butler 10-10, Colby 0-0; Pratt 9-22, Garden City 2-6
4-6—Dodge City 12-12, Barton 2-2; Hutchinson 16-18, Seward 7-10; Butler 10-10, Colby 0-0; Pratt 10-13, Garden City 2-3
4-8—Hutchinson 18, Sterling 0; Pratt 6-2, Baker 1-1
4-9—Barton 24-5, McPherson 7-0; Butler 8, Neosho 0
4-10—McCook, Neb. at Colby
4-11—Barton at Cloud; Hutchinson at Dodge City; Garden City at Seward; Butler at Pratt
4-12—Colby at Kansas City
4-13—Cloud at Barton; Dodge City at Hutchinson; Seward at Garden City; Colby at Kansas City; Pratt at Butler