PITTSBURG — It wasn’t always pretty, but Allen Community College’s baseball team came home with three wins in four tries in its weekend series against Carl Albert State College.
After sweeping both games of a doubleheader Saturday, winning 8-3 and 9-4, the Red Devils wobbled a bit on Sunday, dropping the opener 13-1, and then falling behind 9-2 in the nightcap before rallying for an 11-10 victory.
The series was moved to Pittsburg State University’s campus because of rainy weather that deluged Allen County through the week.
Allen is scheduled to return to the diamond with doubleheaders against Coffeyville on Thursday and Saturday.
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A five-run sixth inning broke a 3-3 deadlock to win the opener, 8-3.
Josh Prinner’s two-run single gave Allen the lead, followed three batters later with a three-run home run off the bat of Alec Roberts.
Reliever Levi Bennett picked up the win, tossing two scoreless innings, allowing only a two-out single in the top of the seventh. He retired the next Carl Albert batter on a ground ball to end the game.
Roberts also got the scoring started with a run-scoring double in the first. He then came around to score on Damon Burroughs’s double for a 2-0 lead. Lucas McCain singled to lead off the second and came around to score on Jonah Weisner’s RBI grounder.
But ACC’s offense stalled in innings 3-4-5, with the Red Devils stranding runners in scoring position in each inning. The Vikings scored once in the fourth and twice in the fifth to knot the score.
Roberts drove in four in the game with the double and home run. McCain went 3-for-3 with a double, while Lukas Rich had three singles. Burroughs had a double and single. Weisner and Prinner had two singles each; Khyle Radcliffe had a double as well.
Jacob Davenport got the start, allowing two hits and no earned runs in 3 ⅓ innings with four strikeouts. Brian Beers allowed three hits with two strikeouts in 1 ⅔ innings.
Carl Albert struck quickly in Game 2, scoring twice in the first and third innings to take a 4-2 lead.
The Red Devils took the lead for good with a four-run fourth inning. The big blow was John Satterfield’s bases-loaded triple after four Red Devils had earned walks in the frame.
Prinner’s two-run double keyed a three-run sixth to put the game to bed.
Jackson Blake, one of six ACC pitchers to take the mound, picked up the win in unusual fashion. He faced only two batters, hitting one. He then induced a fly ball that Radcliffe turned into a double play by throwing out a Viking baserunner at the plate to end the top of the fourth.
Others seeing action on the mound were Josh Fluet, Patrick Babcock, Connor Clark, Paxton Bryan and Slade Renfrow, who combined to allow nine hits with six strikeouts.
