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HCC Sports Information
Thursday, March 6, 2008
ARKANSAS CITY – The Hutchinson Community
College baseball team had only four hits, but made the most of its chances
on Thursday in an 8-3 single nine-inning game victory over Cowley College at
City Ballpark in Arkansas City.
The Blue Dragons (7-4) took advantage of 12
walks and three wild pitches by six Cowley pitchers, as well as two Tiger
errors. Three of the four Blue Dragon hits produced runs.
Sophomore Eric DeBlanc singled to drive in
sophomore Ben Ferrell in HCC’s four-run third inning. Then in a two-run
fourth, freshman Adam Roy had an RBI single that scored DeBlanc. Sophomore
Stewart Hoover then doubled down the right-field line to score sophomore
Matt LaGree.
The Dragons had four stolen bases, including
a rare double steal of home and third when freshman Corey Miller stole home
and sophomore Ben Ferrell snatched third. Ferrell was then cut down at the
plate trying to score when the pitch got away from the catcher in the fifth
inning.
HCC also executed three sacrifice bunts and
had one sacrifice fly from LaGree, who had two RBIs in the game without the
benefit of a base hit.
Freshman Ryan Frevert pitched the first
three innings for HCC on Thursday, allowing five runs, three were earned,
three walks and just two hits.
The story of the game was the stellar work
of the HCC bullpen. The four pitchers out of the pen shut the Tigers out and
allowed just six Cowley baserunners in the final six innings.
Scott Keffer (1-0) earned his first career
victory with two innings of work. He allowed hit hits and two walks while
striking out one. Sophomore Zach Biery had two walks in two innings. Then
Kyle Rosine and Ryan Scoles pitched perfect innings in the eighth and ninth,
respectively.
HCC took a 1-0 lead on LaGree’s sacrifice
fly that scored freshman Jamel Cervantez in the first inning. Cowley came
back with two runs off Frevert in the bottom of the first.
Trailing 3-1 after two innings, the Dragons
struck for four runs in the third. After DeBlanc’s RBI single and LaGree’s
groundout to shortstop plated DeBlanc to tie the game, HCC went up 5-3 on
back-to-back bases-loaded walks to Miller and Alex Grogan.
Roy had an RBI double that scored DeBlanc in
the fourth inning, and then HCC took a 7-3 lead on Hoover’s RBI double down
the right-field line.
HCC added one more in the fifth inning when
it converted the double steal by Miller and Ferrell.
The Blue Dragons, which left eight runners
on base, didn’t have a hit after the fourth inning.
The Blue Dragons will travel to defending
Region VI champion Butler on Saturday and Sunday for a four-game Jayhawk
West series at McDonald Stadium in El Dorado.
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