Alan Hoskins
Saturday, March 21, 2009
College Advancement
Kansas City Kansas Community College headed south on its annual Spring Break trip Sunday hopeful of finding an offense that suddenly went sour.
After rebounding from a 10-8 loss at Fort Scott Friday, the Blue Devils rebounded for a 12-2 nightcap win only to have the offense vanish in 3-1 and 2-1 losses to Coffeyville on Saturday. The losses left KCKCC 3-3 in the Jayhawk Conference and 5-3 overall heading into games against Wallace State, Calhoun and Bevill State on an Alabama road trip.
Nate Wilder drove in three runs with a home run and two singles and Piper’s Mike Rezin drove in two runs with a pair of hits in the 12-2 6-inning win at Fort Scott. Ricky Ideus went the distance for the win, allowing four hits and pitching shutout ball after the first.
Fort Scott rallied for four runs in the bottom of the sixth for the 10-8 win as the Greyhounds pounded out three home runs in handing Austin Etling his first loss. Robert Keisler, Cavett Bright and Wilder each had two hits and T.J. Lorson had a solo home run for KCKCC.
Coffeyville got two route-going performances in limiting KCKCC to four singles in the opening 3-1 win and three singles in the 2-1 nightcap. Dean Whiteside gave up four hits, struck out six and walked two in five innings of relief in the opener while two unearned runs in the first inning was all Coffeyville needed in the nightcap against hard luck loser Hunter Benton, who gave up just three hits, striking out seven and walking one.