PARSONS — Allen Community College’s baseball team had a tough time on the road. Maybe it was because their routine was broken by rainouts Saturday and Sunday.
The four-game Jayhawk Eastern Division series with Labette Community College’s Cardinals in Parsons was pushed back. Teams played doubleheaders on Monday and Tuesday.
Whatever it was, the Red Devils took the first game Monday then lost the next three. That puts them at 11-17 in Jayhawk East play and 17-25 overall.
They played at Baker University Wednesday but no report was available on that action.
Monday’s games were close between the Red Devils and Cardinals.
Zak Mickens ran his record on the mound for ACC to 6-3, pitching his sixth complete game for the Red Devils. Mickens and the Red Devils beat the Cardinals 7-5.
The Red Devils had five doubles in their 12 hits in the game. Mickens checked the Cardinals to seven hits. He also walked four and hit one batter but recorded five strikeouts.
Allen scored twice in the first inning but was behind 3-1 when the Red Devils came to bat in the fifth. The Red Devils used five straight hits — three were consecutive doubles — to scored five runs.
Labette attempted a rally scoring two runs in the bottom of the seventh.
Travis Stafford had two singles and a double for ACC. Nathan Russell had a single and a double. Garrett Rasch, Caleb Wilburn and Kyle Johnston each had a double.
Hitting a single apiece were Sky Bushyhead, Kyle Fultz, Garrett Hess and Eric Seymour.
In the second game Monday, the Cardinals took a 6-5 victory, scoring the winning run in the bottom of the seventh. The Red Devils rallied from a 5-2 deficit to tie the game in the top of the seventh.
Brodie Mitchell, Tanner Lee and Bill Wigington pitched for Allen. They gave up 11 hits and walked two and had a hit batter.
Wilburn was 3-for-4 with three singles for the Devils. Johnston doubled. Stafford, Russell, Fultz and Cody Amerine each had a single.
The Red Devils and Cardinals were tied 6-6 after five innings of the first game Tuesday. Labette used four hits and an Allen error to score six times in the sixth on its way to 12-6 win.
