More Saturday photos of the tournament located at wncccougars.albumpost.comThe Western Nebraska Community College softball team went 1-3-1 at the Triple Crown Invitational, facing N
CAA Division II colleges, in Ft. Collins, Colo., Saturday and Sunday. The Cougars went 0-2-1 on Saturday, tying Chadron State College 9-9, while falling to the Montana State-Billings 10-2 and Colorado School of Mines 6-1. On Sunday, WNCC lost a heart-breaking contest to Metro State 6-5 before blanking Regis University 5-2.
WNCC sophomore Kelsey Garner said this was good competition against four-year schools.
“I think this weekend we competed well with the four year schools,” the sophomore said. “But the only thing we were lacking was being able to play tough from start to finish.”
That, playing tough throughout, was the case in the five games.
Against Chadron State, the Eagles struck first scoring four times in the first inning as Katie Bolin smacked a double. WNCC rebounded taking a 6-4 lead after four innings with three runs in the second and fourth innings.
In the second inning, Kelsey Garner had a one-out double followed by four straight singles by Jaclyn Bourdon, Mandy Pounds, Adena Hagen and Tonya Atencio to slice the deficit to 4-3.
WNCC took the lead in the fourth with three runs on four hits. Pounds got things started with a 2-out single, followed by singles by Hagen and Atencio. Kelly Pearson followed with a run-scoring triple for the 6-4 lead.
Chadron State tied the game in the fifth as Andrea Wyman led off with a single and scored later on a hit by Allison Hendrickson.
WNCC came back to take a 9-6 lead in the sixth inning. Pounds lead off with a single. Then, after Pearson walked, Sofia Gomez blasted a 3-run home run to put WNCC up 9-5.
WNCC couldn’t hold the lead in the seventh as Chadron State scored four times. Wyman led off the inning with a single. Hendrickson followed with a one-out single and then Casey Williams walked to load the bases. Kristy Long then delivered the big blow, getting a grand slam to tie the game.
Chadron State had four players record two hits. Long paced the team with a 2-for-4 game with six RBIs and a home run. Wyman, Bolin and Hendrickson each went 2-for-3.
The Cougars pounded out 14 hits in the contest with five players finishing with more than two hits. Pounds led the way with a 3-for-4 game along with three runs scored. Hagen, Pearson, Atencio and Garner each had two hits.
In the earlier games on Saturday, WNCC managed just six hits in the 10-2 loss. Brittany Chacon paced the Cougars with a 2-for-2 performance. In the Mines loss, WNCC had just six hits as Alex Voci finished with a 2-for-3 game.
Sunday was a better day for the Cougars even though they split a pair of games. The Cougars opened play falling to Metro State 6-5, giving up two unearned runs in the sixth inning for the defeat. WNCC did strike first in the contest, scoring three times in the fourth inning on singles by Pearson, Pounds, and Karleen Crone.
WNCC added two more runs in the fifth inning to take a 6-0 lead as Atencio and Pearson led off with singles. Then, with two outs, the Cougars got run-scoring singles from Crone and Hannah Strauss for the lead.
Metro State fought back, scoring four runs in the bottom of the fifth and two more in the sixth, including a grand slam, for the win.
WNCC had nine hits in the contest, led by Crone’s 2-for-2 performance, which included a run scored and a RBI. Also collecting multiple hits was Pearson going 2-for-4 with two runs scored.
The Cougars capped the Triple Crown tournament with a thrilling 4-2 win against Regis. Regis took an early 2-0 lead only to watch the Cougars come storming back with a single run in the first and two more in the second for a 3-2 lead.
WNCC took the lead in the second as Lauryn Smith was plucked with a pitch. Hagen then blasted a 2-out triple to score Smith with the tying run. Atencio followed with a single to put WNCC up 3-2.
The Cougars added two insurance runs in the seventh. Hagen singled to lead off the inning and then scored on a Casey Simpson single for the win.
Hagen paced WNCC with a 2-for-3 performance including three runs scored, a triple and a RBI.
WNCC will next be in action Saturday and Sunday when they travel to Seward County Community College and Garden City Community College in Kansas, followed by an Oct. 12 meeting against Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, Colo.
MSU-Billings 042 301 – 10 16 2
LP – Stephanie Townsend.
WNCC 001 000 0 – 1 6 1
Mines 203 010 – 6 8 0
LP – Kelsey Garner.
Chadron St. 400 010 4 – 9 9 2
2B – WNCC (Garner), CSC (Katie Bolin); 3B – WNCC (Kelly Pearson); HR – WNCC (Sofia Gomez), CSC (Kristy Long).
WNCC 000 320 0 – 5 9 4
Metro St. 000 042 x – 6 7 0
LP – Garner; 2B – Hagen.
WNCC 120 000 2 – 5 7 1
Regis 200 000 0 – 2 8 1
WP – Townsend; S – Casey Simpson.
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