MCC Baseball sweeps doubleheader from York JV
The McCook Community College baseball team picked up a pair of wins Wednesday at home downing the York University JV 9-6 and 11-1 in five innings.
MCC got back-to-back home runs from freshman Maddox Shaver (Belleville Ontario) and sophomore Michael Quick (Oshawa, Ontario) in the sixth inning of Game 1 to help overcome a 6-5 deficit.
"It was good to get the sweep, the first game was definitely in question late but got three great swings in a row in the bottom of the sixth to put us over the top," said MCC Coach Jon Olsen.
In Game 2 the Indians scored eight runs in the second inning and got a four-inning win from freshman pitcher Brady Augustin (Surrey, British Columbia). Offensively the Indians got a three-for-three game at the plate from sophomore Jackson Yeager (Omaha Westside HS) who drove in three runs.
"We got a really good start from Brady in Game 2 and we had a huge second inning where we really swung the bat well that inning," said Olsen.
MCC improves to 13-15 overall and 9-3 at home.
"It was nice to continue playing well at home and it's been a nice little homestand for us and nice to play at home after a long start on the road," said Olsen.
The Indians return to the Region IX schedule this weekend with a split-series against Northeastern Junior College. The two teams will play two games Friday in McCook starting at 1 p.m. and then go to Sterling, Colo., for two games Sunday starting at 2 p.m.
MCC is tied for second in the Region IX standings at 6-2 while NJC is seventh at 2-6 and 16-16 overall.
MCC's next home game will be April 16 at 2 p.m. against Colby.
"We were able to get all our healthy position guys at bats today and threw six guys so always good when we're able to do that," said Olsen.
All the latest information for MCC baseball including up-to-date schedule and changes as well as statistics, rosters and photos can be found on the MCC Athletics website, www.mccindians.com
GAME 1 – McCook CC 9, York Univ. JV 6: The Indians scored three runs in the first. Sophomore Luke Bies (Omaha Gross) led off the inning with a single and scored on a two-run double by Jackson Yeager. Yeager scored on a Panther error to put MCC up 3-0.
Bies hit a one-out solo home run in the second to make it a 4-0 game.
York scored an unearned run in the third to pull within 4-1 then took the lead with five runs in the fifth inning on a walk, a hit batter, two straight singles, an MCC error, and a two-run double to put the Panthers up 6-5.
Sophomore Zack Lane (Phoenix, Ariz.) pitched four innings, allowed four hits, walked one, hit two, struck out two and gave up three earned runs.
"Lane was really good," said Olsen. "We probably just tried to extend him just a bit too much."
Blake Benallo (sophomore, Thornton, Colo.) was able to pitch out of a no-out, runner on second jam with a walk and three strikeouts. Freshman A.J. Matta (Arvada, Colo.) pitched a scoreless fifth inning allowing one hit and striking out one.
Down 6-5 in the sixth, Bies led off the inning with a double. The Indians got back-to-back home runs from Maddox Shaver and Michael Quick. It was the Shaver's fourth homer of the season and Quick's third. MCC added a final run on a pair of walks, a passed ball and an error.
"Offensively Luke and Yeager paced us until we got a few big swings in the sixth," said Olsen.
Ethan Badcock (sophomore, Adelaide, Australia) picked up the save pitching a scoreless seventh, allowing a hit and a walk and striking out three.
"Minus the fifth inning we played pretty solid on the pitching and defensively but boy the fifth snowballed on us," said Olsen. "It was good to see Blake, AJ, and Badcock really all had good innings,
MCC committed four errors in the game and out-hit York 8-6. Bies paced the offense with three hits, Yeager had two.
GAME 2 – McCook CC 11, York Univ. JV 1 (5 innings): The Indians began the second inning with a single from Jackson Yeager, a double by Cory Wouters (freshman, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan), an RBI-single by Will Edwards (sophomore, Sydney, Australia) and a two-run home run by Blake Dale (sophomore, Riverton, Wyo.), his team-leading sixth of the year. With two outs, MCC got four more runs, the first on an RBI-double from Michael Quick followed by a three-run home run by Yeager.
Brady Augustin started on the mound and pitched four scoreless innings, allowing one hit and one walk to go along with six strikeouts.
Yeager led off the fourth for MCC with a single and scored on balk and an RBI-groundout with redshirt freshman Josh Jedretich (Melbourne, Australia) batting.
Dylan Huddle (Arvada, Colo.) came on in relief in the fifth and was greeted with a solo home run. After walking the next hitter, he struck out the next three hitters.
Freshman Nathan Hutchison (Riverton, Wyo.) tripled to lead off the MCC fifth, and scored on an RBI-single from redshirt freshman Eli Schaeffer (Thornton, Colo.) to end the game on the 10-run rule.
MCC outhit York JV 14-2 with a three-hit game from Yeager and two-hit games from Luke Bies, Quick, Wouters and Dale.
REGION IX BASEBALL STANDINGS
(The Empire League)
W-L PCT. OVERALL
Western Neb. 7-1 .875 16-19
McCook 6-2 .750 13-15
Southeast CC 6-2 .750 16-15
Lamar CC 4-4 .500 14-20
Otero JC 3-5 .375 13-10
Trinidad State 3-5 .375 10-21
Northeastern 2-6 .250 16-16
Luna CC 1-7 .125 2-26
WEEKEND GAMES
FRIDAY
Northeastern JC at McCook, noon, 2:30 p.m.
SATURDAY
Luna at Southeast CC, noon, 2:30 p.m.
Trinidad State at Otero, noon, 2:30 p.m. (MT)
SUNDAY
McCook at Northeastern JC, 1 p.m., 3:30 p.m.
Luna at Southeast CC, noon, 2:30 p.m.
Trinidad State at Otero, noon, 2:30 p.m., (MT)
Western Nebraska at Lamar, 2 , 4:30 p.m. (MT)
MONDAY
Western Nebraska at Lamar, 2, 4:30 p.m. (MT)
