Allen Community College’s baseball team stepped out of conference for a time Monday, with a pair of lopsided wins over Ottawa University’s junior varsity squad.
The Red Devils cruised behind the two-hit shutout pitching of Kade Douglas to roll 10-0 in the opener.
Beau Brown then took center stage in the finale, with a triple, home run and six RBIs in ACC’s 12-1 victory.
The sweep elevates Allen to 24-18 with a pair of four-game series left to wrap up the regular season. The Red Devils will host Fort Scott for a doubleheader Thursday before wrapping up the series with two at Fort Scott on Saturday. After that is a four-game slate against Johnson County May 5-7.
Allen’s Josh Prinner doubled to lead off the first game and scored on a double-play grounder before Allen’s offense hit its stride in the bottom of the second.
Nathan Bach doubled with the bases loaded to make it 4-0 and then came on Levi Bennett’s RBI single.
Christian Atamirano and Prinner hit back-to-back doubles to lead off the fourth. Both scored on wild pitches. Walks to Fraai Roangeraud and Bach set the stage for Bennett’s RBI double. Tanner Strickland made it 9-0 with a sac fly later in the inning.
Roangeraud walked and scored on Bach’s double with one out in the fourth to end the game via the 10-run mercy rule.
Douglas struck out six over five innings, while Bach had four RBIs on his two doubles. Bennett went 2-for-3 with a double. Prinner doubled twice and singled in four at bats. Altamirano singled and doubled. Ayden Blachowicz also singled.
Roangeraud had a busy day, despite not registering an official at bat. He walked four times and scored three runs.
Luke Carter got the starting nod in the nightcap, and made things interesting by walking the first three Ottawa JV batters of the game, only to strike out the next three in order — all on called third strikes — to snuff the threat.
Bach and Carver singled with two outs in the bottom of the first and were chased home on Brown’s two-run triple.
Another two-out rally in the second broke the game open, keyed by of all things, a pair of hit batsmen. Rhett Yaggers and Altamirano both reached base before Yaggers scored on an error. Prinner made it 4-0 with an RBI single. Two more hit batters, Bach and Kyle Carver, set the stage for Brown to tattoo a 2-0 pitch over the right field fence to make it 8-0.
Prinner doubled in a run in the third and scored on a wild pitch. Carver followed with an RBI triple to drive in Bach.
Brady Wiggin’s leadoff single preceded an RBI grounder by Yaggers to cap the scoring.
Carter ended his night with six strikeouts over two innings of work, allowing one hit.
