Softball | 4/13/2025 8:59:00 PM

Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 The Cloud County Community College softball team dropped both ends of its Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference doubleheader to No. 22 Kansas City Kansas Community College on Saturday, April 12, falling 9-1 in five innings in game one and 10-0 in five innings in game two.

The Kansas City Kansas Community College Blue Devils saw a fast offensive start in game one, posting four runs in the first and one run in the second to take an early 5-0 advantage.

After loading the bases in the fourth but failing to score, the T-Birds finally got on the board in the top of the fifth inning on an RBI bloop single by freshman Maliyah Koster that scored freshman Bella Santin.

Kansas City Kansas answered with four more runs in the bottom half of the fifth, though, to earn the run-rule victory.

Koster led the T-Birds at the plate with two hits. Santin also added two hits, while Lilly Ellison, Hailey Garcia, Emalee Johnson, Harley Smith and Camille Stauffer finished with one hit each.

Cloud County's only hit of game two came on a lead-off single by Johnson in the top of the seventh inning. Sophomore Paige Mahler was the only other T-Bird to reach in the nightcap, drawing a two-out walk in the seventh. Otherwise, Kansas City Kansas sophomore pitcher Kinlei Boley held Cloud County to no runs on one hit with one walk and four strikeouts.

The T-Birds will look to bounce back when they welcome the Allen Community College Red Devils in Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference play on Tuesday, April 15. First pitch is set for 1 pm from the CCCC Softball Field and will be streamed on the T-Bird Sports Network.