FORT SCOTT, Kan. – A nine-run first-inning outing would propel the Cloud County Community College softball team to a 14-3, five-inning victory in game one before falling 9-2 in game two to split a road doubleheader with Fort Scott Community College on Tuesday, April 27th.

The split leaves Cloud County with a 7-21 overall record and 2-20 record in the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference while the Greyhounds are now 5-37 overall and 4-20 in the KJCCC.

Game One:
The nine-run first inning would come on nine hits and two walks as 13 batters would come to the plate. Extra-base hits in the inning from Taylor Glause (twice), Emily Dunaway, and Taylor Burks would pace the T-Bird offense as seven of the first eight batters would come around to score.

Fort Scott would get a pair of runs back in the bottom of the first, but Cloud County would be quick to respond as CCCC would take advantage of an error, single, and walk, to push across two more runs in the second to reclaim a nine-run lead. After giving back one run to the Greyhounds in their half of the second, things would stay an 11-3 game until the top of the fifth when the T-Birds would strike for three more with Dunaway hitting a two-run homer to allow CCCC to run away with an 11-run victory.

Throwing a complete game and allowing just three runs (two earned) on eight hits would be Kyra Meyer as the freshman would record one strikeout and allow just one hit in the final two innings. Offensively, Cloud County would get a three-for-four performance from Glause with four RBI's as five different players would have multiple hits. The T-Birds would also steal five bases in the game.

Game Two:
Things would not be nearly offensively friendly in the opening innings of game two as a scoreless first inning would make way for a two-run second from Fort Scott off three hits and an error by CCCC. Cloud County would cut the FSCC lead in half in the top of the third with a solo home run by Kayla Lee as the game would remain a 2-1 Greyhound lead until the bottom of the fourth.

In the bottom of the fourth, Fort Scott would get another two-run inning by using a leadoff single followed by a two-run home run. Another run would come home in the bottom of the fifth for Fort Scott to make it a 5-1 game heading to the sixth where Cloud County would get a two-out homer from Rae Ann Hartwig to get back within four.

A big sixth inning from Fort Scott would see the Greyhounds have their most productive inning of the day by pushing across four runs with four-straight hits to start the inning as the lead would grow to a game-high seven at 9-2. With one final opportunity to try and extend the game, Cloud County would be retired in order to end the game.

CCCC would get just seven hits in the game compared to six strikeouts as three of the seven hits would go for extra-bases. Five stranded base runners would also be a detriment to the T-Birds as Hartwig would be the only Cloud County player to record multiple hits.

What's Next?
With an odd-number of teams in the KJCCC, Cloud County will have the conference bye on Thursday as the T-Birds will next be in action on Saturday, May 1st with a 12 p.m. doubleheader at number-eight Highland Community College. The Scotties won this season's previous doubleheader in Concordia back on March 30th and is 28-6 overall this year.