TOPEKA, Kansas —  The Cloud County Community College baseball team concluded its regular season schedule on Monday, finishing up its four-game series against No. 18 Barton Community College with a doubleheader played at Washburn University due to rain over the weekend.

Cloud County earned a split of Monday's doubleheader and in the series against the nationally ranked Cougars, losing Game Three, 5-2, before closing out the regular season with a 7-2 win in Game Four.

With the win, the T-Birds, coming off nine victories in 2016, improved to 27-29 overall and 12-20 in the KJCCC on the season — the most wins for a Cloud County team since 2009 when Cloud was 28-28 overall.

"The guys have done everything we've asked as far as playing hard and buying in to what we're doing," said Cloud County head coach, Eric Gilliland. "We've won some games, but we certainly don't want to congratulate ourselves yet. We want to keep playing hard and see if we can finish this thing out and make a run."

Freshman outfielder Matt Bondarchuk added some Cloud County history of his own Monday as he went 1-for-3 in the Game Four victory, giving him the school record for hits in a season with 78. Bondarchuk surpassed the mark of 77 by Jared Goedert in 2004 when Goedert was named a second-team All-American.

The piece of history was just part of what was a well-played series finale by Cloud County on the mound and in the batter's box.

The duo of sophomore Drew Scrimsher and Patrick Rosborough kept the Cougars off the scoreboard for the first six innings.

Scrimsher threw two scoreless frames and struck out three before giving way to Rosborough, who went the next five innings and limited Barton to two runs on four hits while striking out four.

"We were actually just going to go a couple of innings with Patrick, but he was so sharpe. He actually only threw about 70 pitches in 00 innings," Gilliland said. "Really, we pitched well the whole day. We made some adjustments. The top two guys in Barton's order are really good and we made some adjustments to get those guys out and that was a big part of it."

At the plate, Cloud County broke through with the game's first three runs in the top of the seventh on an RBI single by sophomore catcher Garrett Graveline, who finished 4-for-4 in Game Four. Freshman outfielder Trae McDaniel added an RBI double in the inning, as well.

After Barton answered back with two runs in the home-half of the seventh, the T-Birds broke the game open with a four-run eighth inning — two coming on a two-run home run by sophomore first baseman, Kolton Meyer.

It was Meyer's 12^th home run of the season, which leads Cloud County, and first in 10 games.

"That was big. Kolton hadn't got one in a while and he hit it a long way, right on time," Gilliland said. "We needed that to punch back and get the momentum back on our side."

In Game Three, Cloud fell 5-2 in what was a tight ballgame throughout, with a two-run sixth inning by Barton being the backbreaker as the Cougars scored each run on a T-Bird error.

The T-Birds took an early 1-0 lead in the top of the second on a RBI single by freshman outfielder Ryan Simons to score fellow freshman Ryan Krolikowski. They plated their second run in the top of the six, cutting Barton's lead to 3-2, on a RBI single from Enrique Gonzalez that drove in McDaniel, who hit a one-out ground rule double.

Cloud County will find out Wednesday which team out of the KJCCC East it will draw for the first round of the Region VI playoffs.

The T-Birds are 15-11 away from Concordia this season, so regardless of this weekend's destination, they are hoping to prove to be a tough out this postseason.

"We know we're going to be on the road and we know we're going to have to win a three-game series. It's not going to be easy and we're going to have to play well," Gilliland said. "The KJCCC East has a lot of good teams, so it's going to be like a regular Jayhawk Conference series. You're going to have to scrap and fight and our guys have kind of bought in to that underdog mentality."