Baseball | 3/11/2025 7:43:00 PM

Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 The Cloud County Community College baseball team was able to secure two home wins over Kansas Wesleyan University JV on Tuesday, March 11 by scores of 13-1 in five innings and 7-1 in seven innings.

The victories marked the seventh consecutive wins for the T-Birds, who have improved to 9-1 at home and 15-5 overall.

The power-packed Cloud County offense propelled the T-Birds to a commanding victory in the first game of the doubleheader. The T-Birds scored 13 runs on 12 hits with 11 runs batted in. Redshirt freshman David Simmons had a standout performance, hitting his second home run of the season on a two-out, two run blast to left field to score sophomore Austin Coyle in the bottom of the second inning. Simmons drove in two more runs in the bottom of the fourth with a single to left-center, bringing home freshman Vasya Seymour and sophomore Noah Konings. Simmons finished 2-for-3 with three runs scored and five RBI.

Redshirt freshman Matthew Evans went 3-for-3 with one run and two RBI. Sophomore Gannon White also chipped in two RBI, while White, Coyle, Konings, Seymour, Nolan Freund, Easton Mould and Tony Crow had one hit each.

Sophomore Myles Chamberlain picked up his first win of the season out of the bullpen. Chamberlain pitched a scoreless third inning, striking out all three batters he faced. Freshman Cohen Nelson started the contest, tossing two innings of two-hit ball, striking out two while allowing one run. Sophomore Creighton Jacobitz pitched a scoreless fourth, while redshirt freshman Hayden Malaise closed out the game with a scoreless fifth inning.

The T-Birds took an early 3-1 lead in game two after freshman Kaden Budke singled in Konings in the bottom of the first. Cloud County loaded the bases in the first and redshirt freshman Luke Clayton drew a one-out walk, scoring Simmons. Freshman Lucas Laukkanen walked to lead off the bottom of the third, scoring the third run of the game on an infield grounder by Budke.

The game remained at 3-1 before Cloud County scored four runs in the bottom of the sixth. Seymour blasted a three-run home run to left, driving in Freund and freshman Carter Cathers. Coyle followed with a double to center field before being brought home on an RBI double to right field by Konings to make the score 7-1.

Cloud County managed eight hits, five for extra-bases. Cathers and Freund joined Coyle and Konings by recording one double each. Seymour contributed three RBI. Budke had two RBI.

Sophomore Noah Bourgeois notched his second win of the season, pitching three scoreless innings, allowing just one hit while striking out five of the ten batters he faced. Bourgeois retired the Coyotes in order in the fourth and sixth innings.

Five Cloud County pitchers combined to only allow one run while striking out 11 batters in the win.

Cloud County will look to continue their winning ways when they begin a four-game Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference series with Dodge City Community College on Thursday, March 13. Dodge City is 13-6 on the season and 1-3 in conference play, after dropping three of four games to Hutchinson last week. The first two games of the series between Cloud County and Dodge City will be played at Lee Doyen Field in Concordia, starting at 1 pm Thursday. The series will then shift to Dodge City for the final two games on Saturday, March 15, starting at 1 pm.