Hawks complete four game-sweep over MCC baseball
NORFOLK – Northeast Community College completed a four-game sweep over McCook Community College Sunday winning 11-1 in five innings and 11-6. The Hawks swept MCC in McCook on Saturday17-7 and 5-2.
“We need to get back to the practice field and work on getting better,” said MCC Coach Jon Olsen.
Sophomore Cory Wouters – who is this week’s National Junior College Athletic Association Division 1 national player of the week – hit his fifth and sixth home runs of the year in Sunday’s Game 2 loss.
Northeast CC goes to 10-5 on the season.
MCC falls to 3-10.
“The inability to put our best foot forward has our frustration level at an uncomfortable level,” said Olsen. “That’s on us to figure out how to get it fixed, but it better hurry up because conference gets here in three weeks.”
Sunday was the first of 16 straight games on the road for MCC over the next three weeks with nonconference games in Kansas, Oklahoma and New Mexico. On Thursday the Indians travel to Hastings for a pair of games against the Bronco JV starting at 2 p.m. On Friday the team goes to Salina, Kan. for a doubleheader against the Kansas Wesleyan JV starting at 1 p.m.
The next home games are set for March 27 against Western Nebraska.
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GAME 1 – Northeast CC 11, McCook 1: MCC starting pitcher Aviv Bobrov (freshman, Shekhanya, Israel) kept the Hawks off the scoreboard for the first two innings but in the third NECC got to him with a three-run home run and added another on a two-out single to lead 4-0. After the first two runners in the third inning reached base, on a hit and walk, sophomore
Tobey Cassino (Arvada, Colo.) took over on the mound and the Hawks added a run on a wild pitch and another on a sacrifice fly to lead 6-0.
Bobrov went three innings, allowing six hits and two walks.
MCC got on the scoreboard with a pair of lead-off singles in the fifth by freshmen Carter Smith (Ottawa, Canada) and Tyler Reyburn (Frederick, Colo.) and a sacrifice bunt by Landon McKillip (Lamoni, Iowa) to score Smith.
The Hawks ended the game on the 10-run rule in the fifth with two walks, a hit batter, a grand slam and three straight singles.
Cassino pitched one inning, allowing one hit and four walks. Freshman Julian Alvarez (Vaughan, Ontario) came on to face the final three hitters, allowing the final run.
GAME 2 – McCook 11, Northeast CC 6: After taking a 1-0 lead in the first inning, Northeast scored four runs in the second, five in the third to lead 10-0.
Freshman Tait Anderson (Auckland, New Zealand) started on the mound. He gave up a leadoff single, then recorded a groundout and a flyout before leaving the game in the middle of the next at bat. Freshman Landon Molloy (Parker, Colo.) finished out the inning and pitched the second, allowing six hits, two walks and three strikeouts. He departed after allowing five runs in the third, including a grand slam. Landen Zehr (freshman, Kitchener, Ontario) took over with MCC trailing 10-0.
Cory Wouters put MCC on the scoreboard leading off the fourth inning with a solo home run. Landon McKillip lead off the MCC fifth with a walk and with one out sophomore Maddox Shaver (Belleville, Ontario) to set the table for Wouter’s second homer of the game to pull within 10-4. Freshman Dalton Berg (Frederick, Colo.) followed with a double and scored on a Hawk error and with two outs Tyler Reyburn doubled to make it a 10-6 game.
Northeast added a run in the fifth. The Indians couldn’t get any offense going in the sixth or seventh.
Zehr pitched 2.1 innings, and allowed one earned run on two hits, three walks and three strikeouts. Sophomore Jean Duran (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) pitched the final frame for MCC allowing one hit, one walk and he struck out one.
MCC had six hits in the game with two by Wouters, who drove in four of the runs with his two homers.