COLBY, Kansas — The Cloud County Community College baseball team dropped all four games of its road series — 9-6, 9-1, 9-2 and 5-2 — to a talented Colby Community College team over the weekend.

With the losses, the T-Birds fell to 17-23 overall and 7-17 in the KJCCC West, while the second-placed Trojans improved to 23-14 overall, 15-5 KJCCC West.

"Colby is a very good baseball team that comes hard every inning. We competed throughout the weekend, but couldn't get timely hits and didn't make good baseball plays that win games," said Cloud County head coach, Eric Gilliland. "Overall, it was a frustrating weekend of baseball."

Timely hitting was the main culprit behind the T-Birds woes as they left 37 runners on base during the four-game set, including 10 men in Saturday's 9-1 loss in Game Two, and 15 runners in Sunday's 5-2 finale.

"Colby found ways to get guys in and we left runners on all weekend," Gilliland said. "Colby put the pressure on us the whole series and we didn't drive guys in when we had a chance."

On Saturday, the series started with a back-and-forth 9-5 defeat for Cloud County, which dug out of a 5-0 and 6-2 hole to get back within a run at 6-5 through three innings.

Sophomore sluggers Kolton Meyer and Jacob Grady each swatted home runs during the comeback effort, but Colby put the game away with two runs in the fifth and another insurance run in the sixth.

In Game Two, freshman right-handed pitcher Patrick Rosborough kept the T-Birds in the game as he limited Colby to two runs through the first six innings. His final line read 6 1/3 innings, five runs allowed on five hits, two walks and three strikeouts after the Trojans broke things open with seven runs between the seventh and eighth innings.

Unfortunately, for Cloud County, that trend continued Sunday in its 9-2 loss to Colby to begin the afternoon.

The T-Birds pulled within a run at 3-2 in the top of the fifth inning on an RBI groundout by sophomore catch Garrett Graveline, but the Trojans countered with a run in the home half of the fifth and a five-run sixth inning.

It'd be another five-run inning for Colby that would spoil the series finale for the T-Birds.

Cloud County scored the game's first run in the top of the sixth on a one-out, bases loaded single by freshman Ryan Simons that scored Trae McDaniel. Simons finished 3-for-5 from the leadoff spot in Game Four.

One batter later, freshman Enrique Gonzalez lined into a double play at first base to end Cloud County's threat and Colby capitalized on the momentum swing with five runs in the bottom of the sixth inning.

Sophomore right-hander Gabriel Jacobo was saddled with the loss despite a solid outing that saw him go 5 2/3 innings, allow five runs, four earned on seven hits. He walked four and struck out three.

Cloud County will look to right the ship on Wednesday when it begins a stretch of six straight non-conference games with a road doubleheader against Hesston College.

"Offensively, we've got to figure it out. We're in a funk right now and we've got to figure out a way to start driving guys in," said Gilliland when asked about what his team needs to accomplish during these games before returning to KJCCC West action against Butler on April 22-23. "We've had times where the offense was good and pitching was bad. We're still trying to sync it up, but we really need to get our guys, who have kind of carried us when we've been good, back dialed in."