Cowley baseball team snaps Trojans’ 17-game win streak, prepares to host top-ranked Cavaliers
With a critical four-game series against No. 1-ranked Johnson County only days away, the Cowley College baseball team got in a midweek game against No. 13-ranked Seminole State College on Tuesday in Arkansas City. The Tigers snapped the Trojans 17-game win streak with a 16-10 victory over the Trojans.
Cowley, winners of six games in a row, improves its record to 30-15 on the season. Seminole State falls to 39-8.
Cowley hit four home runs and had 10 extra-base hits in the win. Freshman right fielder Easton Green had a huge day at the plate, homering twice and adding a double as he went 4-for-5 with four runs scored and five runs batted in. Green hit a two-run homer in a seven-run second inning and capped the scoring with his two-run blast in the eighth.
First baseman Quinn Groebl's three-run homer in the third inning increased Cowley's lead to 9-4 before Skyler Branam's fifth home run of the season put the Tigers in front 10-5 in the bottom of the fourth.
Seminole State starting pitcher Armando Gomez allowed six hits and nine runs in 2 2/3 innings, and six Trojan pitchers combined to allow 16 hits.
Peyton Gosch went the first four innings on the mound for Cowley and allowed seven hits and five runs. The victory improves Gosch's record to 2-2.
With Cowley leading 12-7, the Trojans would score three runs in the top of the seventh inning to close within 12-10. However, the Tigers would put the game away with a four-run eighth that included run-scoring doubles from Jace Patton and Creed Muirhead before Green's second home run of the game.
Hudsen Periman struck out the side in the bottom of the ninth inning to preserve the win. Other Cowley pitchers to see action in the win were Jace Patton, Jake Hobbs, Lucas Weaver, and Carter Rose.
Along with Green's big day, catcher Creed Muirhead went 3-for-5 with a double, three runs scored, and three runs batted in.
The Tigers will host top-ranked Johnson County in a doubleheader on Thursday at 1 p.m. The Cavaliers (46-2) have won 30 games in a row and are four games ahead of Cowley in the conference with a 24-0 record.
Cowley will attempt to slow down a Johnson County offense that leads the NJCAA with 159 home runs and is second in runs scored (620) and team batting average (.408).
Score by inning: R H E
Seminole 0 2 2 1 1 1 3 0 0 – 10 10 1
Cowley 0 2 7 1 1 1 0 4 x – 16 16 4