MCC Baseball sweeps doubleheader over Hastings JV

HASTINGS – The McCook Community College baseball team won a pair of games Thursday over the Hastings College Junior Varsity. The Indians won 7-4 in eight innings and 15-0 in a five-inning game decided by the 10-run rule.

In Game 1 the Indians gave up a 4-1 lead in the seventh inning but came back to score three runs in the eighth.

“It was good to get both wins today,” said MCC Coach Jon Olsen. “I didn’t think we played very good in Game 1. We’ve got to get games closed out at the end.”

The Indians scored seven times in the first inning of Game 2 and never trailed, racking up 15 hits in the five-inning game to back the two-hit shutout pitched by freshman Landon Molloy (Parker, Colo.).

“Game 2 was total flip, we came out swinging and then Molloy was really good today with an excellent outing,” said Olsen.

MCC (5-10) will travel to Salina Friday for a doubleheader against the Kansas Wesleyan JV.

“It will be a quick turnaround for tomorrow for another doubleheader but a great opportunity to get out to play and to get better,” said Olsen.

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GAME 1 – McCook 7, Hastings College JV 4 (8 innings): The Broncos pushed across a run in the first inning and held the 1-0 lead until the MCC third when freshman Tyler Reyburn (Frederick, Colo.) lined a leadoff double, stole third base and came home to tie the game 1-1.

In the fifth, MCC took a 2-1 lead when sophomore Nathan Hutchison (sophomore, Riverton, Wyo.) was hit bit a pitch and came home on a two-out RBI-single by sophomore Cory Wouters (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan).

Leif Friedrich (sophomore, Surrey, British Columbia) started the game on the pitching hill for MCC and went five innings, allowing four hits, one earned run, three walks and six strikeouts.

Freshman Connor Charvat (Omaha) walked to lead off the sixth and freshman Carter Smith (Ottawa, Canada) followed him with a single. Both runners moved up a base on an errant throw from centerfield. Charvat scored on a wild pitch and Smith scored on a sacrifice fly off the bat of Reyburn.

“Leif threw very well in his five innings, we had a great sixth but them just imploded in the seventh,” said MCC Coach Jon Olsen.

Freshman Kaden Noble (Orillia, Ontario) took over on the mound and struck all three of the men he faced in the sixth but ran into trouble in the seventh after walking the first three men of the inning then two Broncos scored on an error and Hastings tied the game on a sacrifice fly to send the game into an extra inning. Noble gave up one earned run on four walks, no hits and four strikeouts.

“Three walks and an error to start the inning, recipe for disaster,” said Olsen. “The only good thing to come out of the inning was not losing.”

Reyburn doubled with one out in the eighth and freshman Landon McKillip (Lamoni, Iowa) drove home the go-ahead run on a single. Hutchison tripled home McKillip and with two outs, he scored the third run on the inning when sophomore Owen Glover (Elderslie, New South Wales) was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded.

Freshman Elvis Conte (Fort Collins, Colo.) retired the side in order in the eighth to pick up the save on the mound for MCC, striking out one.

“Elvis threw a great eighth,” said Olsen.

MCC outhit Hastings JV 11-4 with two-hit games from Reyburn, Glover and freshman Dalton Berg (Frederick, Colo.).

GAME 2 – McCook 15, Hastings College JV 0: The Indians scored seven runs on seven hits and a hit batter in the first innings. MCC got two singles from Nathan Hutchison, one each from Cory Wouters, Dalton Berg, Carter Smith, a double from Maddox Shaver (sophomore Belleville, Ontario) and a three-run double from Tyler Reyburn.

Shaver doubled in Wouters in the second, Smith singled in two in the fourth to put MCC up 10-0. Wouters singled in two runs in the fifth, Berg doubled in Wouters and Shaver singled in two to give MCC the final margin of victory.

MCC had 15 hits in the game with three each by Hutchison, Wouters, Shaver and Smith. Reyburn and Smith both had three RBIs.

Landon Molloy picked up the complete-game win issuing two walks in his five innings of work, no walks and six strikeouts.