Baseball | 3/28/2026 10:32:00 PM

Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 The Cloud County Community College baseball team clinched a Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference (KJCCC) series win over the Dodge City Conquistadors on Saturday, March 28, jumping ahead early with 15 runs through the first two innings in the second game of a doubleheader. The T-Birds cruised to a 28-6 victory after suffering an 11-10 loss in game one.

In improving to 29-3 on the season and 14-2 in KJCCC action, the T-Birds outscored the Conquistadors 58-21 and collected 68 hits during this week's four-game series. In the second game of the twinbill on Saturday, Cloud County established new program records for most runs and hits in a game. Cloud County's 28 runs broke the previous record of 26 set earlier this season in the team's 26-4 road win at Pratt on March 7, 2026. The T-Birds also smashed 27 hits in the game, topping the program's previous record of 24 hits that had stood since 1983.

Cloud County opened game two with three runs in the first inning. Redshirt freshman designated hitter Simon Baker drove in two runs with a single to center field before later scoring on a passed ball.

In a 12-run second inning, Cloud County sent sixteen batters to the plate. Every T-Bird player scored in the inning. Redshirt freshman outfielder Tanner Jacobson had the first of four home runs in the frame with a solo shot to center field. Two batters later, freshman outfielder Brody Seidl crushed a two-run homer to left. Sophomore catcher Vasya Seymour added a three-run shot over the left field wall, while Baker drilled a two-run home run to center. Sophomores Kaden Budke and Joey Marino also had RBI hits in the second.

The T-Birds scored twice more in the third. Freshman first baseman Nolan Green singled and scored a run, while Jacobson doubled to left and scored a run.

Cloud County added eight more runs in the fourth. Baker led off the inning with a triple to right field before scoring on a passed ball. Green drove in pinch hitters Kale Koch and Carter Cathers with a two-RBI single to center field. Freshman pinch hitter London Dingwell soon followed with a two-RBI single to center, bringing home Green and Jacobson. Freshman pinch hitter Broxton Barrientos doubled to center field to drive in Dingwell, while sophomore pinch hitter Zach Miller collected a two-RBI single to center to score Seidl and Barrientos.

The T-Birds also pushed across two runs in the fifth and one in the sixth. Green and Seidl both had RBI doubles in the fifth. The final T-Bird run came in the sixth on a solo home run to center field by Miller.

Dodge City had spurts of offense, with four of their six runs coming from homers by freshman Preston Harrison and redshirt freshman Jordi Guerrero.

The T-Birds pounded out 14 extra-base hits in the game and benefited from nine walks. Cloud County had five home runs and eight doubles. Jacobson went yard and added two doubles with three runs scored. Green went 4-for-6 with a double, four runs scored and three RBI. Baker and Budke both tallied three hit games, with Baker finishing with a homer, a triple, a double, four runs scored and four RBI. Seidl also scored four times and drove in three runs.

Sophomore Cohen Nelson picked up the win after giving up only one earned run on two hits with eight strikeouts and two walks in four innings pitched. Sam Brummund, Cooper Tannahill and Colby Arensdorf combined to pitch the final three innings, holding the Conquistadors to five runs on six hits with three strikeouts.

Dodge City smashed four home runs, including a fifth inning grand slam by redshirt sophomore Cameron Stukenborg, to hand Cloud County an 11-10 loss in game one. Cloud County notched 15 hits in the loss.

The game was tied at 3-3 before Marino led off the bottom of the third inning with a homer to give the T-Birds a one-run advantage.

A solo shot by Dodge City redshirt sophomore Bynum Martinez tied the game again at 4-4 in the top of the fourth inning.

Cloud County climbed in front with three runs in the bottom half of the fourth. Baker drove in a pair of runs with a one-out RBI single to right field, before being brought home on an RBI double to right by freshman outfielder Kellan Burke.

Stukenborg's grand slam, his second homer of the game, made it 8-7 in the fifth.

The T-Birds tied the game again in the bottom of the sixth with an RBI single by sophomore short stop Lucas Laukkanen.

Dodge City scored three runs in the top half of the seventh. Redshirt sophomore catcher Ben Longoria had a two-run home run to left, while Guerrero capped the scoring with an RBI single to left.

Seymour crushed a lead-off home run in the bottom of the seventh. Jacobson followed with a stand-up double to left before scoring on a one-out RBI single to right by Baker. Burke also reached on an infield single, but Marino grounded out into a 6-4-3 double play to end the game.

Burke went 4-for-5 with a double, two runs scored and one RBI. Marino had three hits with a homer and a double and two runs scored. Baker finished with two hits while driving in three. Jacobson and Seymour both had two hits and scored two runs each.

Freshman Gage Gannon took the loss after throwing 2.1 innings, permitting four earned runs on five hits while striking out three batters. Sophomore starter Cole Linton earned a no decision after going 4.1 innings with seven earned runs on eight hits with three walks and two strikeouts. Freshman Jett Wahlmeier threw a third of an inning with a strikeout.

The T-Birds will be back in action when they take on Hastings College on Monday, March 30 in non-conference play.