Errors trip up Red Devils at home

Miscues in the field are thwarting Allen County Community College’s Red Devils in being successful in baseball games this season.
Case in point was Wednesday on Red Devil Field against Butler Community College. The Grizzlies did not have a hit in a four-run second inning.
Allen County committed three errors in the inning and hit two batters helping Butler move runners around. Another error came in the third inning as the Grizzlies plated three more runs.
Allen County produced a run in the first inning. Then it was catch-up mode for the Red Devils the rest of the way and they couldn’t.
Butler defeated Allen County 7-6 in a nine-inning contest. That put the Red Devils at 17-24 for the season.
They host their final Jayhawk Eastern Division four-game series this weekend as Labette Community College comes to town. Allen County is 9-17 in Jayhawk East play.
Two games are Friday starting at 3 p.m. then the other doubleheader is Saturday at 1 p.m.
These will be Allen County’s final regular season home games.
Allen County has committed almost double the errors as its opponents this season. The Red Devils had 88 errors to 47 by opponents.
Against Butler, each team had just five hits. Allen County pitching issued five walks and hit two batters. The ACCC defense had five errors.
In the first inning, the Red Devils scored with two gone. Michael Schell singled then scored when Nick Fountain doubled.
Down 7-1, the Red Devils manufactured three runs in the fifth. Brad Alberts drew a one-out walk and moved to second on a balk. Garret Hess doubled in a run followed by walks issued to Eric Seymour and Riley Price.
Bryce Williams had a fielder’s choice that pushed across two runs.
Allen County loaded the bases in the seventh inning as Alberts, Hess and Seymour drew walks with no one gone. The Red Devils got just one run as Price hit into a 6-4-3 double play.
The Red Devils got another run to pull within one run in the eighth. Kyle Johnston reached on a base-on-balls with two gone. Curtiss Bunch and Alberts had back-to-back singles.
Alberts started on the mound for ACCC. He took the loss going three innings and was charged with seven runs on two hits, two walks and two hit batters. He struck out one. Alberts became the Red Devil designated hitter the rest of the game.
Zak Mickens came in and shut down the Grizzlies. He pitched two hitless, scoreless innings and had one strikeout. Tanner Wittman threw two scoreless innings, allowing one hit and two walks and struck out two.
Brandon Spear came on to pitch the final two innings. Spear walked one and struck out six.