Baseball | 2/16/2025 12:53:00 AM

Box Score The Cloud County Community College baseball team fell 11-1 in seven innings to Seminole State College on Saturday, February 15 at Lloyd Simmons Field in Seminole, Oklahoma.

The game marked the rubber match of a weekend series. On Friday, February 14, Seminole State won the first-game of a doubleheader, 5-1, before seeing Cloud County bounce back to win the second matchup by a final score of 9-2.

Seminole State College struck early in the series finale on Saturday, tagging the T-Birds for four runs in the first inning. Sophomore Grayson Childers crushed a three-run home run to center field while sophomore Hunter Dearman scored on Brayden Harpole's sacrifice fly.

Cloud County had runners in scoring position in the top of the third after sophomore Eric Bradicich singled to center field and sophomore Austin Coyle doubled to right, but the T-Birds were unable to bring either of them home.

The Trojans loaded the bases in the bottom of the fourth when Jaylon Humbles reached on a fielder's choice, Cade Mills was hit by a pitch, and Angel Tiscareno drew a one-out walk. Childers and Dearman both drew bases-loaded walks before sophomore Wilfred Gonzalez laced a two-out RBI single to right to stretch Seminole College's lead to 7-0.

After the Trojans turned a 4-6-3 double play to end the top of the fifth, they pushed across four runs on four hits in the bottom half of the inning. Childers and sophomore Tyler Payton both delivered RBI singles in the frame.

Cloud County scored its only run of the game in the top of the sixth when redshirt freshman David Simmons collected a two-out RBI single to center, driving in redshirt freshman Matthew Evans.

The T-Birds had two runners reach in the top of the seventh. Freshman Kaden Budke singled to center and Coyle followed by drawing a two-out walk, but freshman pitcher Luke Saunders ended the game early with a strikeout, one of two punch outs for him in the inning.

Sophomore Denver Hamilton earned the win on the mound for Seminole State. The right hander from Red Oak, Oklahoma went five innings and allowed no runs on four hits while fanning two.

Cloud County will return home on Saturday, February 22 and Sunday, February 23 to host Marshalltown Community College for a four-game non-conference series. The T-Birds have won 13 straight games against the Tigers dating back to 2021, including taking all four games played at Lee Doyen Field in Concordia in 2024.