ARKANSAS CITY — Zak Mickens gave Allen’s Red Devils a solid pitching outing. The Allen Community College offense cranked out 17 hits and the Red Devils won 11-4.
Even though the road trip was a bit disjointed because of rain pushing games back a day it started out well over the weekend. Despite bright spring sunshine continuing on Sunday and Monday, things turned dark on the Red Devils at Cowley County Community College.
The Red Devils dropped the next three games to the Tigers losing the four-game series. Cowley County won 8-6 in the second game Sunday.
On Monday, the Tigers claimed a 5-2 decision and an 11-1 victory.
Allen fell to 6-10 in Jayhawk Eastern Division play and 12-15 overall.
The Red Devils host Butler Community College Wednesday. It will be one nine-inning game starting at 4 p.m. at Red Devil Field.
“That first game we played awfully well. Zak pitched great. We hit the ball hard and played good defense,” said Val McLean, Red Devil head coach.
“In the other three games, we didn’t play bad. Cowley just stepped it up and played just a little better than we did.”
McLean said the Red Devils are up and down because they haven’t been able to put all three phases — pitching, hitting and defense — together in games consistently this season.
Allen’s Mickens evened his season pitching record to 3-3 with a complete game victory Sunday. He allowed the Tigers eight hits, walked two and struck out two.
Allen scored two runs in the first inning on a two-run double by Caleb Wilburn. Kyle Johnston doubled in the second and scored on a single by Sky Bushyhead, who was 3-for-4 in the game.
The Red Devils used doubles by Travis Stafford and Kyle Fultz in the third to produce two runs. Garrett Rasch led off a four-run sixth with a solo blast over the left field fence.
Tim Lewis, who also went 3-for-4, and Wilburn each doubled in the sixth to drive in runs. Eric Seymour connected for a two-run single in the seventh.
Cowley scored two runs each in the fourth and sixth innings.
Lewis had two singles and a double and Bushyhead had three singles. Rasch singled and homered.
