Baseball | 2/12/2026 9:28:00 PM

Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 The Cloud County Community College baseball team swept a doubleheader against Kansas Wesleyan University JV on Thursday, February 12 with a 14-2 win in five innings in game one and a 15-3 win in five innings in game two.

The T-Birds are out to their first 6-0 start since 2022.

Cloud County mashed nine hits, including four extra-base hits, in the team's game one victory over the Coyotes. The T-Birds scored all 14 runs through the first three innings. Cloud County scored five in the first, three in the second and six in the third.

Sophomore first baseman Luke Clayton launched a one-out, three-run home run to center field, scoring sophomore Joey Marino and freshman Kellan Burke during the T-Birds' five-run first inning. Marino and Burke both scored again in the second inning, with sophomore Lucas Laukkanen and freshman Brody Seidl collecting RBI singles in the frame. Cloud County then broke the game open with a six-run third inning to take a 14-0 lead. Clayton tallied his fourth RBI of the game on a double to right field. Sophomore pinch hitter Zach Miller added a bases-loaded, two-out double to center field in his first at-bat of the season. 

Burke scored three runs, while Clayton, Marino, Laukkanen, redshirt freshman Simon Baker and freshman Broxton Barrientos all scored two runs in the game for the T-Birds.

On the mound, Cloud County used three pitchers to limit Kansas Wesleyan JV to only two runs on two hits.

Sophomore Stocton Timbrook logged the victory. Timbrook pitched two innings, allowing no hits and no runs while striking out two batters and walking one.

Sophomore Sam Brummund followed with two scoreless innings, retiring six straight batters and finishing with two strikeouts.

Meanwhile, freshman Bradley Janes pitched the final inning, giving up two earned runs on two hits with two walks while adding a pair of strikeouts.

Cloud County concluded the doubleheader with a 15-3 victory in game two. The T-Birds posted their 15 runs on nine hits with four home runs, led by two bombs from sophomore third baseman Kaden Budke.

Clayton again kicked-started the Cloud County offense with another one-out, three-run home run to center field in the bottom of the first inning, scoring Burke and Marino. Freshman Kale Koch added an RBI single as the T-Birds took an early 5-0 lead.

Cloud County added a run in the second inning when Marino scored on a fielder's choice by Koch.

Budke drilled a three-run homer to left in the bottom of the third, scoring sophomores Tony Crow and Vasya Seymour to make it a 9-0 game.

Kansas Wesleyan loaded the bases with one-out in the top half of the fourth and brought all three runs home to trim the T-Bird lead to 9-3.

With two outs in the bottom of the fourth, Koch drew a free base on a walk. After stealing second, Koch was brought home on a single to left by Crow. Seymour kept the inning going with a double to right field to score Crow. Budke then delivered again with a two-out, two-run home run to left field. Gunn followed by lacing a triple to right, before Marino cleared the bases again with a two-run home run to left. In total, the T-Birds scored six runs with two outs in the fourth inning.

Budke finished the game 2-for-3 with two home runs, two runs scored and five RBI. Gunn logged a 2-for-4 day with two triples and two runs scored. Marino added three runs, while Crow and Seymour scored two each.

Sophomore Cole Linton struck out four hitters over two innings to earn his second win of the season for the T-Birds. Redshirt freshman Cooper Tannahill, freshman Nolan Green, and freshman Jett Wahlmeier scattered four strikeouts over the final three innings.

Cloud County is scheduled to play a single game at Kansas City Kansas Community College on Tuesday, February 17 at 2 pm.