Baseball | 5/15/2026 11:55:00 PM

Box Score The Cloud County Community College baseball team ended its historic season on Friday, May 15 with a 13-4 loss in seven innings to No. 1 Johnson County Community College in the 2026 NJCAA Division I Plains District Tournament at Eck Stadium in Wichita, Kansas.

The T-Birds, ranked No. 2 in the final regular season NJCAA Division I Baseball Rankings, finished the season with a 50-7 overall record, marking the first 50 win season in program history. Cloud County clinched its first Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference (KJCCC) West Division title. Redshirt freshman outfielder Simon Baker was named the KJCCC West Division Most Valuable Player. Sophomore Cohen Nelson earned KJCCC West Division Pitcher of the Year honors. Twelve T-Birds received All-KJCCC West Division recognition, including three First Team All-KJCCC selections (Baker, Nelson and freshman pitcher Ian Razak).

Head coach Eric Gilliland was also named KJCCC West Division Coach of the Year. Gilliland now has a program-record 348 career wins.

Johnson County scored first in the bottom of the second inning when sophomore outfielder Ashton Hartwig singled home sophomore catcher Boston Bruce.

Cloud County tied the game at 1-1 in the top of the fourth inning on a solo home run to center field by freshman outfielder Kellan Burke. Burke led the T-Birds with 21 home runs, while the team rewrote the single-season home run record with 142 total bombs this year.

The Cavaliers responded in the bottom half of the fourth. Sophomore first baseman Colin Coonradt connected on a solo shot of his own to put Johnson County back in front at 2-1.

Cloud County answered with two runs in the fifth to take a 4-2 lead. The T-Birds loaded the bases before Baker singled to right field, scoring sophomore catcher Vasya Seymour and redshirt freshman outfielder Tanner Jacobson. Burke followed with a one-out RBI single, driving in sophomore third baseman Kaden Budke.

Johnson County added three runs in the bottom half of the fifth inning, climbing ahead at 5-4. Sophomore third baseman Logan Groh drove in a pair with a double to center field, while Coonradt scored Groh on a RBI single to right.

The Cavaliers ended the game by plating eight runs in the seventh, capped by a three-run home run by freshman outfielder Brayden Geisler, to extend its lead to 13-4.

Razak took the loss. He pitched 1.2 innings in relief, allowing six runs, all unearned, on four hits with one walk and one strikeout. Sophomore starter Stocton Timbrook pitched five innings, giving up five runs on seven hits with three walks and four punchouts. Timbrook concluded the year ranked second on the team in strikeouts with 76. Freshman Gage Gannon gave up two unearned runs in his brief appearance in the seventh.

Burke led the offense with two hits and two RBI. Sophomore short stop Lucas Laukkanen added a double. Baker, Jacobson and sophomore second baseman Joey Marino finished with one hit each.