by Alan Hoskins, KCKCC
Steineger Field will look awfully good to Kansas City Kansas Community College’s softball team when the Lady Blue Devils return to Jayhawk Conference action there against Allen County Tuesday at 2 p.m.
The Blue Devils ran into some hard-throwing Jayhawk pitchers over the weekend as they dropped 9-0 and 8-3 decisions at Cowley College in Arkansas City Friday and 5-0 and 9-3 at Independence Saturday.
The losses left the Blue Devils 17-12 heading into a doubleheader at Haskell University today. In addition to the home twin bill with Allen County Tuesday, KCKCC also will be host to Maple Woods Wednesday at 2 and 4 p.m.
The Blue Devils were held to just one hit, a third inning single by pitcher Brittany Gustin, in the 5-inning 9-0 loss at Cowley Friday. Gustin gave up 10 hits but only four of the nine Cowley runs were earned due to four Blue Devil errors.
KCKCC also contributed to its 8-3 downfall in the nightcap with five errors which contributed to four unearned runs. Morgan Oroke, and Geena Harris and Kaylynn Stratton each had two hits in a 9-hit KCKCC attack. The Blue Devils scored twice in the fifth after singles by Amy-Grace Wilson and Stratton and got an RBI double from Stratton in the seventh.
Indy blanked KCKCC on six hits including two by Kennedy Rassmussin in Saturday’s 5-0 opening loss. The Lady Pirates scored an unearned run for a 1-0 lead in the third and added three more runs in the fourth on four hits and a miscue.
A bases-loaded double by Mekayla Foskett that scored all three base runners was the one KCKCC bright spot in the 9-3 nightcap loss. Foskett also had a single for two of KCKCC’s five hits. Indy jumped to a 4-0 lead on five hits in the first, then added two more runs in the fifth and sixth innings.