Baseball | 4/23/2025 5:05:00 PM

Box Score Cloud County Community College sophomore Cam Macleod drove in three runs and freshman Kaden Budke scored three times as the T-Birds baseball team beat the Colby Trojans 5-1 on Wednesday, April 23 in the opener of a four game Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference series.

The second game of the doubleheader between the T-Birds and the Trojans was paused in the top of the third inning with Cloud County leading 3-1. Lightning was detected before the start of the third at Young Memorial Stadium. After a delay of more than 40 minutes with inclement weather in the northwest Kansas area, the game was paused. No decision has been made on when the two teams will resume play.

Both teams are off Thursday, April 24 and Friday, April 25. The T-Birds are set to host Colby for two more games on Saturday, April 26, part of the Cloud County Baseball Alumni Reunion weekend at Lee Doyen Field in Concordia.

The T-Birds led 3-1 at the end of the second inning after scoring all three runs in the top of the first. Redshirt freshman Matthew Evans drew a one-out walk before advancing to third on a defensive throwing error. After sophomore Nolan Freund was hit by a pitch, freshman Joey Marino scored Evans on a sacrifice fly to take an early 1-0 lead. Freshman Kaden Budke also reached on a walk. Macleod followed by smacking a two-RBI double to right field, bringing home Freund and Budke, giving the T-Birds an early 3-0 advantage.

Colby managed to get a run back on a RBI single by freshman Caden Clifford in the bottom of the second inning.

Macleod continued his red-hot start after driving in three runs in game one, beginning with a stand-up double in the top of the second inning that scored Budke. Sophomore Gannon White added a double to left-center field that same inning, driving in Macleod.

Macleod added an RBI bunt single in the top of the fifth. Budke also collected an RBI hit in the fifth frame to score Freund.

Cloud County capped the scoring in the top of the seventh with another Macleod RBI single that drove in Budke.