The Allen Community College baseball team took one game of a four-game series against Cowley County Saturday.
The Red Devils (14-13; 6-6) walked it off in the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader on a wild pitch which allowed Cade Schupp to take home plate for the 7-6 victory. It was a comeback affair for Allen as they trailed by two runs heading to the bottom of the seventh.
Allen then came up short in the second game of the afternoon in a 7-2 loss.
Game one
The Red Devil bats are what kept Allen in the game by scoring runs in four innings to squeak out a one-run win.
“We kept playing,” said Allen head coach Clint Stoy. “We played good defense and gave our offense a chance to come back in. Our guys just keep playing and give themselves a chance to win.”
Patrick Mulligan smacked an RBI single to score Schupp in the bottom of the second for an early 1-0 lead.
Cowley got on the board in the top of the third inning when Ty Hammack belted a two-run homer which also scored Eaden Holt to put Allen in a quick 2-1 hole.
Allen’s Carson Shepherd responded with an RBI single to score Brandon Harper and knot the game at 2-2 heading to the fourth inning.
The fourth involved more offensive crackle as Jordan Shepherd ripped an RBI double to score Cooper Schwindt and go ahead by one run, 3-2.
The Red Devils took back the lead in the bottom of the fourth when Garrett Rusch reached on an error to the shortstop which allowed Mulligan to score and knot the game at 3-3. Gabe Glenn then scored on a wild pitch for the 4-3 edge heading to the fifth.
Schwindt reached on a fielder’s choice which brought Hammack across to tie the game in the fifth, 4-4. Tiger Cole Martin then knocked an RBI single in the top of the seventh which plated Hammack and Holt for the 6-4 lead.
It was an eventful bottom of the seventh inning for Allen when Schupp singled home Rusch for the 6-5 difference. Mulligan singled again and scored Shepherd to knot the game at 6-6. Schupp then scored on a wild pitch to the next batter for the 7-6 walk-off winner.
“Cade Schupp had a pretty good couple of days and Blake Venneman has been a mainstay in the leadoff spot. He’s been very good,” said Stoy. “He gets on base a lot which helps us get innings started. Today it seemed like he was always coming up big.”
Schupp and Mulligan led the Red Devils at the plate with two hits apiece while Mulligan also drove in a couple of runs. John James started on the mound for Allen, working five innings, allowing four runs on five hits and striking out four Tigers.
