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No. 9 team visits KCKCC on Tuesday

by Alan Hoskins, KCKCC sports information

The road doesn’t get any easier for Kansas City Kansas Community College baseball. After dropping a doubleheader to No. 5 Johnson County Saturday, the Blue Devils play host to No. 9 Cowley County in a doubleheader Tuesday starting at 1 p.m.

Johnson County (27-1) broke open a close game in the late innings for a 7-4 first game win and then needed just seven innings for a 15-4 nightcap win Saturday. The wins kept JCCC (11-1) a game ahead of Cowley (10-2) for the Jayhawk Conference lead.

Fourth in the Jayhawk at 5-5 and 10-8 overall, the Blue Devils are at Cloud County for a non-conference doubleheader Thursday before resuming Jayhawk play against Highland next week.

KCKCC trailed 3-2 in the sixth inning of the opener only to have the Cavaliers go long ball. Jackson Galloway doubled, Brevon Lee tripled and Nate Stevens homered for a 6-2 lead. The Blue Devils got two runs back in the bottom of the sixth on singles by Jaylon Johnson, Cole Silbowski and Cole Dawson and a Raymond Paniagua sacrifice fly.

Jay Long (4-0) got the pitching win, allowing four hits and an earned run in 4.1 innings while Sebastian Velez (1-2) took the loss, allowing six runs on seven hits. Dawson and Paniagua each had two hits for the Blue Devils, who had nine hits but left 11 runners stranded.

JCCC scored six runs in the second inning and five in the seventh to close out the 15-4 nightcap win.

The Cavaliers took a 2-0 lead on a Quinton Hall home run in the first inning but the Blue Devils went ahead 3-2 in the bottom of the inning. A double by Silbowski, single by Dawson scored one run; Caleb Adams singled in another and Brendyn Bard’s sacrifice fly put the Blue Devils in front.

The Cavaliers regained the lead with a 5-hit, 6-run sixth inning highlighted by Wyatt Morgan’s go-ahead two-run homer and a two-run double by Noah Cook. The Cavaliers finished with 19 hits off three KCKCC pitchers.

Austin led with four hits including a two-run homer in the seventh. KCKCC was limited to nine singles including two each by Silbowski and Paniagua.

KCKCC deals Cowley first Jayhawk baseball setback

by Alan Hoskins, KCKCC sports information

Kansas City Kansas Community College dealt No. 7-ranked Cowley College its first Jayhawk Conference defeat in 10 games Tuesday.

Limiting the Tigers to four hits, the Blue Devils took a 5-2 opening game win before dropping a 14-1 5-inning nightcap.

The two teams will complete their four-game series at KCKCC Tuesday, April 5. At Johnson County Thursday, the Blue Devils (4-2) next play host to the Cavaliers Saturday.

Lefthander Tre Simmons allowed four hits in six innings to run his record to 2-0. A freshman from Olathe West, Simmons struck out three and walked three. Sophomore Parker Weddle finished up, striking out two three hitters he faced.

Raymond Paniagua delivered the game’s biggest blow. Paniagua followed a one-out walk with a run-scoring triple and then scored on Caleb Adams’ ground ball for a 2-1 lead in the third. KCKCC broke a 2-2 tie in the fifth, scoring the go-ahead run on a double play after loading the bases without a hit and then added two insurance runs in the seventh, scoring both on wild pitches after a lead off singled by Camden Karlen.

Cowley (19-3) broke open the 11-1 nightcap by scoring seven runs on the second off starter Alan Mercado (0-2) and reliever Joseph Reyes.

KCKCC was limited to singles by Cole Dawson, Darius Freeman, Beau Grable and Paniagua. Cowley’s Racer Felter and Jerome Tylicki combined to strike out nine and walk two.

Blue Devils face ranked baseball foes after 3-1 Jayhawk start

by Alan Hoskins, KCKCC sports information

Back in play after three weeks of pandemic quarantine, Kansas City Kansas Community College finally opened Jayhawk Conference baseball play by taking three of four games from Fort Scott over the weekend.

Rebounding from a tough 2-1 opening loss Friday, the Blue Devils rebounded with a 14-4 nightcap win and followed with an 11-6, 8-3 sweep at Fort Scott Sunday.

The three wins improved the Blue Devils’ record to 6-4 heading into the toughest week of the season. The Blue Devils play at No. 7 ranked Cowley College (15-2) Tuesday and then take on unbeaten and No. 5 ranked Johnson County (23-0) Thursday in Overland Park and at home Saturday.

The Blue Devils got a 3-run home run from Brendyn Bard and four RBI’s from Cole Silbowski in their 11-6 opening game win at Fort Scott Sunday.

Silbowski singled in two runs to put KCKCC in front in the second inning and after Bard blasted a 3-run homer in the third, singled in two more run in a 5-run third inning.

Darius Freeman and Jaylon Johnson also had two hits and Cole Dawson singled in two runs in the fifth.

Only one of six runs given up by Tyler Kapraun was earned. Kapraun (2-0) struck out six, walked three and allowed six hits in 4.2 innings before Hunter Cashero finished up with 2.1 scoreless innings.

The Blue Devils scored six runs in the third to break open the 8-3 nightcap win.

Big blows were a 2-run double by Caleb Adams and a 2-run homer by Bard, his fourth of the season.

Cole Dawson had three of KCKCC’s seven hits including a 2-run home run in the fourth.

Sebastjan Velez got his first pitching win, allowing just two hits and one run in 5.1 innings. He struck out five.

Chase Terrell gave up two hits and two runs in 1.2 innings before Eli Tormes closed out the win with two innings of one-hit relief.

KCKCC scored in six of eight innings in a 14-8 nightcap win on Friday.

Silbowski led an 11-hit attack with three hits and three RBI; Dawson tripled and singled; Bard singled and doubled; and Adams singled twice. Logan Barnard and winner Chase Terrell each gave up three hits in three innings; Tormes allowed two hits in two innings; and Cashero gave up one hit in the ninth.

The Blue Devils’ lone run in their 2-1 loss came on a Palmer Hutchinson home run in the fourth inning after Fort Scott had gone ahead on two walks, a single by Grant Jones and double by Jeff Clark.

Charles Bell got the win, allowing just four hits in six innings. Parker Waddle was the tough luck loser, allowing five hits in seven innings while striking out 11.