Baseball | 3/17/2025 9:23:00 AM

Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 The Cloud County Community College baseball team picked up its 11th consecutive victory following a doubleheader sweep of Dodge City Community College on Sunday, March 16, winning by final scores of 18-6 in seven innings and 12-9 in nine innings.

The win streak is the longest for the T-Birds under head coach Eric Gilliland. Previously, the T-Birds had two different nine game winning streaks in the spring of 2022.

The program record for most consecutive wins is 21 set in 1987.

Sophomore outfielder Austin Coyle hit for the cycle while the T-Birds went deep three times to power past Dodge City 18-6 in game one of the doubleheader. Sophomores Noah Konings and Easton Mould both homered for the first time this season in the win.

The T-Birds finished with 15 hits including seven extra base-hits. Cloud County has recorded seven extra-base hits in a game for the third time this year.

Coyle put together an exceptional game at the plate, going 4-for-6 with a single, a double, a triple and a home run - his sixth of the season. Coyle has raised his batting average to .386 with a .759 slugging percentage and closed out the game with seven RBI and four runs scored.

Cloud County trailed 2-1 entering the second inning before erupting for five runs in the second and four runs in the third. The T-Birds later added three runs in the fifth, one run in the sixth, and four more runs in the seventh.

Sophomore Nolan Freund went 3-for-6 with three RBI and two runs scored. Redshirt freshman Matthew Evans went 2-for-5 with an RBI and three runs scored. Mould had a pair of hits, including a solo home run. Konings added a three-run blast.

Sophomore Noah Bourgeois struck out five and allowed no runs on one hit with one walk in four innings pitched to earn his third win of the year. Bourgeois, a native of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, threw seven scoreless innings on two-hits this week with ten total strikeouts after he also pitched three innings in Cloud County's 7-1 home win over Kansas Wesleyan JV on March 11.

Cloud County prevailed in comeback fashion in game two, scoring eight runs over the final three innings for an eventual 12-9 victory.

After trailing 5-4 at the end of six innings, Cloud County scored three runs in the top of the seventh. Dodge City responded with two runs in the bottom half of the frame to tie the game at 7-all. The T-Birds broke the stalemate with four runs in the top of the eighth before adding an insurance run in the top of the ninth.

Freund went 4-for-5 with a pair of doubles, two runs scored and one RBI. Konings batted 3-for-5 with three runs scored and one RBI. Coyle hit 2-for-4 with a double and three runs scored. Freshman Kaden Budke batted 2-for-3 with a double and three RBI. Redshirt freshman David Simmons went 2-for-4 with two runs scored and three RBI. Sophomore Cam Macleod also had three RBI.

Sophomore reliever Aaron Boutz collected the win. Sophomore reliever Myles Chamberlain struck out three out of the bullpen.

Cloud County is 8-0 to start Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference play for the second consecutive season.

The T-Birds return to action Thursday, March 20 at Lawson-Biggs Field in Great Bend, Kansas to open a four-game Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference series against Barton Community College. Barton is currently in second place in the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference West Division standings after a 7-1 start. Barton has a 12-4 overall record. First pitch is scheduled for 1 pm.