KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Allen Community College’s Red Devils racked up their fifth straight win to open Jayhawk Eastern Division baseball play. The Red Devils used a 17-hit attack to beat host Kansas City, Kan., Community College’s Blue Devils 10-3 Saturday.
Allen also go a second consecutive complete-game performance from sophomore pitcher Zak Mickens. Mickens held KCK scoreless for five innings before giving up a single, a two-run home run and a solo home run in the sixth. He allowed six hits and struck out eight.
In the second game Saturday, the Blue Devils manufactured the winning run in the bottom of the seventh inning for a 3-2 victory.
Allen (5-1, 11-6) and Kansas City (4-2, 7-8) were to have played another doubleheader Sunday but the games were rained out. The teams play today at 2:30 at Community America Ballpark, home of the Kansas City T-Bones.
On Wednesday, the Red Devils host Butler Community College for one nine-inning game starting at 1 p.m.
With Mickens on the mound keeping the Blue Devils in check, the Red Devils went to work early in Saturday’s opener. They scored a run in the second inning. Garrett Hess singled then with two outs, Kyle Fultz, who was 4-for-4 in the game, doubled in the run.
In the fourth inning, base hits by Eric Seymour, who was 3-for-3, Fultz, Travis Stafford, who was 4-for-5, and Tim Lewis along with an RBI sacrifice fly by Garrett Rasch produced two runs. Two more runs came in the fifth when Fultz singled with the bases loaded.
Lewis doubled to lead off the sixth for Allen and scored on a one-out double by Caleb Wilburn. Seymour drove in another run on a two-out single.
With ACC leading 7-3, Fultz led off with a base hit in the seventh and scored when Stafford doubled. There were two gone when Nathan Russell powered a two-run home run over the left field fence.
Fultz and Stafford each had three singles and a double and Seymour hit three singles. Russell hit a double along with his homer. Lewis connected for a single and a double while Wilburn doubled and Hess singled.
In the second game, Allen broke a scoreless tie with two runs in the fifth. Kansas City answered with two runs in its half of the inning.
Kyle Johnston singled with one gone in the fifth and Fultz reached on an error. Rasch singled to load the bases. Stafford had one of his two base hits to drive in two runs.
Joe Mapes worked five innings as the ACC starter. He was charged with two runs on seven hits, one walk and one hit batter. He struck out two.
Jake Johnson came out of the Red Devil bullpen and pitched two innings, giving up one run on three hits, two walks and a hit batter.
Other hits in the game for ACC were a single and a double by Hess and a single by Russell