CHANUTE — It took six days to get in four games. They did it, but it wasn’t the outcome Allen Community College Red Devils wanted.
The Red Devils lost their final four games in Jayhawk Eastern Division action. Neosho County Community College’s Panthers won 6-0 and 3-2 in nine innings on Saturday.
Rain made the teams wait until Monday to finish the four-game series. The Panthers recorded wins of 6-2 and 10-1 over the Red Devils.
Allen fell to 13-23 in Jayhawk East play but still earned the No. 8 seed out of the East in the Region VI playoffs.
Allen made the NJCAA Region VI Super Regionals this weekend. Allen (20-33) is in the Super Regional hosted by Seward County Community College in Liberal.
Seward (33-23) is the No. 1 seed out of the Jayhawk West and plays Allen, which is the No. 8 seed out of the Jayhawk East. Coffeyville (28-27), the East’s No. 4 seed, plays Colby (29-23), the No. 5 seed out of the West.
The first round games are Saturday. Allen plays Seward at 1 p.m.
Look for Zak Mickens to be the starting pitcher for the Red Devils. Mickens has dropped his last two starts but is Allen’s ace.
The Super Regionals are double elimination. The losers of Saturday’s games play Saturday evening.
On Sunday, the winners of Saturday afternoon’s games play each other at 1 p.m. The winner of that game takes on the winner of the losers bracket game from Saturday night.
The championship game is set for 1 p.m. Monday.
On Saturday, Mickens threw another complete game for the Red Devils but lost 6-0. The game was scoreless through four innings.
Neosho County scored twice in the fifth and four times in the sixth. In both innings, Allen committed an error. Mickens allowed nine hits, walked two and struck out five.
Tim Lewis had two singles for the Red Devils. Garrett Rasch, Travis Stafford, Caleb Wilburn, Kyle Fultz and Eric Seymour had a single apiece.
The Red Devils scored two runs in the first inning of the second game. Neosho County got a run in the bottom of the inning on a solo home run by David Bote.
