Category: KCKCC

by Alan Hoskins, KCKCC sports information

Even Palmer Hutchison’s prodigious hitting couldn’t save Kansas City Kansas Community College from a 17-11 thumping at Pittsburg State junior varsity Monday.

The loss left the Blue Devils at 21-14 heading into a pivotal Jayhawk Conference series with Allen County this week. Home Thursday for a 1 p.m. first pitch, the Blue Devils will go to Iola Saturday.

Hutchinson hammered his 13th and 14th home runs of the season and drove in four runs at Pitt State. A sophomore from Hays, Hutchison had a solo blast in the fourth inning and a 3-run shot in the eighth and now has nine home runs and 25 runs-batted-in in the Blue Devils’ last 11 games.

The Blue Devils also got a pinch 2-run home run in the ninth from Brock Stewart, his first. Brendyn Bard chipped in with a double and two singles; Raymond Paniagua a double and single; and Darius Freeman two singles in an 11-hit attack.

However, the offense came far too late. The Gorillas scored four times in the first and had leads of 11-0 and 17-5 after five innings.

The Blue Devils used six pitchers. Gabriel Ramos gave up seven runs on five hits and striking out four in two innings; Joseph Reyes was touched for four runs and two hits; Chase Terrell two runs on four hits; and Brett Owen, four runs on three hits. Parker Weddle struck out the three men he faced in one inning and Hunter Cashero gave up only a walk in two scoreless frames.

KCKCC will close out the regular season play with eight games next week. The Blue Devils will be the host to Baker junior varsity in a non-conference twin bill Monday starting at 2 p.m. and meet Baker again Tuesday at a location and time to be determined. They’ll close out Jayhawk Conference play at Coffeyville Thursday and at home Saturday.

by Alan Hoskins, KCKCC sports information

Barton County was as good as its No. 15 NJCAA Division I national ranking Saturday in a 3-0 win over Kansas City Kansas Community College.

The loss left the Blue Devils at 3-4 with three remaining contests starting with a home game against Neosho County Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. KCKCC also is host to Johnson County May 5 before closing the season at Coffeyville May 15.

Limiting KCKCC to just eight shots on goal, Barton took a 1-0 halftime lead on an unassisted goal by Felipe D’Agostini at the 31:02 mark and then clinched the win with two goals in the final 20 minutes.

Elijah Williams with an assist from Cedric Morales made it 2-0 at 70:23 and D’Agostini added a second goal three minutes later on a pass from Pasquale Degaetano. Barton had six shots on goal against KCKCC goalkeeper Gregorio Gros Jacques.

by Alan Hoskins, KCKCC sports information

Despite an 11-game winning streak ended in a split with Neosho County Saturday, Kansas City Kansas Community College still holds its destiny in its hands.

The Blue Devils have two four-game series remaining in the Jayhawk Conference, both against their biggest challengers in the race for a home playoff berth. Third in the Jayhawk at 14-8, the Blue Devils take on fifth place Allen County (10-10) this coming week and then close the following week against fourth place Coffeyville (13-11). Johnson County (21-3) and Cowley (19-3) lead the league.

Neosho ended KCKCC’s 11-game win streak 7-5 after the Blue Devils rode an 11-run fourth inning to a 12-4 win in the opening game. The split left the Blue Devils 21-13 heading into a non-conference game at Pittsburg State junior varsity Monday at 5 p.m. Allen County comes in Thursday before the four-game set ends Saturday in Iola.

The Blue Devils trailed 3-0 in the fourth inning of the first game when they lashed out eight hits and scored 11 runs. Singles by Raymond Paniagua and Brendyn Bard, Palmer Hutchison’s 2-run triple and a double by Caleb Troutt tied the game and the Blue Devils added seven more runs on singles by Jaylon Johnson, Cole Dawson and Caleb Adams and a 2-run double by Troutt. Paniagua tripled in the final run in the sixth.

Sebastian Velez (2-1) got the win, allowing six hits and three runs in four innings. Chase Terrell gave up one hit and one run in two innings; Steven Santiago finished up allowing two hits and two runs.

Brendyn Bard and Palmer Hutchison had six of the Blue Devils’ seven hits in the 7-5 nightcap. Bard had two doubles and a triple and Hutchison drove in five runs with his 12th home run of the season, two singles and a sacrifice fly.

Tyler Kapraun gave up only one hit, a home run by Ivan Witt, the first four innings only to have Neosho score two runs in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings. Kapraun allowed three runs on five hits, striking out four in 5.2 innings before Eli Tormes was touched for five hits and four runs in two innings.

The Blue Devils have added two non-conference games, both against Baker University junior varsity May 3 and 4. KCKCC will be the host of the May 3 game; date and location of the second game is yet to be determined.