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Today to determine NJCAA fate for BCC tennis
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Today at Veterans Park will be a big day for the Barton men’s tennis team. Each match will determine the fate of the Cougars moving on to the NJCAA Championships next month or having their season come to an end.
The top three from each singles and doubles draw move on the Plano, Texas the NJCAA Championships.
With No. 4 ranked Seward County and No. 9 ranked Cowley in the field, the No. 16 ranked Cougars and Hesston College were going to have their hands full.
As expected, Seward and Cowley won all their matches and will play each other in the championship draws Sunday.
The Cougars will battle with Hesston in each draw to determine that third and final NJCAA qualifier.
Juan Navarro nearly pulled off the upset for Barton in the opening round at No. 2 singles, losing in three sets to Lucas Frietas of Cowley. Freitas won the first set 6-2 but Navarro rallied for a 6-3 win in the second set. In third and determining set, Freitas prevailed, 7-5.
Navarro proved to be the only Cougar to win a set during the day.
The No. 2 doubles team of Marcel Miasato and Navarro put a small scare in Cowley’s Guilhermo dos Santos and Lukas Michenka before losing 6-3, 6-3.
Ray Strunk battled with Jose Castro of Cowley before losing at No. 6 singles, 6-2, 6-2.
The third place matches will get underway at 11 am at Vets in singles with doubles third place matches set to start at approximately 3 p.m.
The NJCAA Championships will take place May 15-19 at the Collin County Tennis Faciliies in Plano, Texas.

Region VI Championships
First Round
Singles
1 – Carlos Anez, Seward, def Nadeem Jaber, Hesston, 6-1, 6-0
Guilhermo Dos Santos, Cowley, def Marcel Miasato, Barton, 6-0, 6-3
2 – Duro Opacic, Seward, def Riley Kingsley, 6-1, 6-1
Lucas Freitas, Cowley, def Juan Navarro, Barton, 6-2, 3-6, 7-5
3 – Ondrej Nice, Seward, def Josiah Borst, Hesston, 6-0, 6-2
Lukas Michenka, Cowley, def Giovanni Fragalle, Barton, 6-0, 6-2
4 – Przemek Zielinski, Seward, def Garrett Roth, Hesston, 6-1, 6-0
Julien Aubry-Damon, Cowley, def Kaio Sato, Barton, 6-0, 6-1
5 – Ronald Rufyikiri, Cowley, def Tre Kremeier, Hesston, 6-0, 6-0
Claudio Quinones, Seward, def Juan Jaimes, Barton, 6-0, 6-1
6 – Ngoni Makambwa, Seward, def Jeff Kauffman, Hesston, 6-0, 6-0
Jose Castro, Cowley, def Ray Strunk, Barton, 6-2, 6-2
Doubles
1 – Anez/NIce, Seward, def Kingsley/Roth, Hesston, 6-1, 6-3
Dos Santos/Michenka, Cowley, def Miasato/Navarro, Barton, 6-3, 6-3
2 – Mosehle/Nery, Seward, def Jaber/Borst, Hesston, 6-2, 6-0
Damon/Castro, Cowley, def Sato/Fragalle, Barton,
3 – Opacic/Zielinksi, Seward, deef Kremeier/Kauffman, Hesston, 6-1, 6-3
Borrero/Freitas, Cowley, def Jaimes/Herbst, Barton, 6-2, 6-1

Cougar baseball shocks No. 3 Cowley Tigers
Barton baseball
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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