Saints keep rallying, sweep at Pratt, 9-7 and 5-2

PRATT, Kan. – The Seward County Community College baseball team continues to roll, heading into Pratt Community College and coming away with 9-7 and 5-2 wins for a doubleheader sweep on Sunday. The Saints captured the series from Pratt, winning all four games.

Seward has won 10 of its last 12 games, improving to 12-16 in the Jayhawk West and 25-26 overall. SCCC wraps up the regular series with a four-game set with Dodge City, playing Thursday on the road and Saturday at home at Brent Gould Field.

GAME ONE

The Saints came back from a five-run deficit with a big second inning and held on for a 9-7 victory over the Beavers in the opening game.

Pratt took the early lead in the first inning, helped by a string of singles and defensive miscues from Seward. A dropped ball in right field, a balk, and an error helped the Beavers jump out to a 5–0 lead.

The Saints struck back with an eight-run second inning thanks in part to Pratt pitching, which walked in three runs and allowed another run to score on a wild pitch to allow. Hayden Ramage drove in two runs with a single and Jacob Urias and Grant Cox added RBI base hits in the inning.

Pratt scratched back with single runs in the third and fourth innings to narrow the margin to 8-7, but Ramage hit a solo homer in the sixth inning to give Seward a little breathing run room at 9-7.

Kashiro Ohno pitched a scoreless seventh inning for the save. Ashton Creighton picked up the win, allowed seven runs, three earned, on seven hits, struck out four and walked none over six innings.

GAME TWO

Seward pitching combined to hold Pratt to two unearned runs and Kotaro Wakui's go ahead two-run single rallied the Saints to a 5-2 win over Pratt in the nightcap.

After Pratt took a 2-0 lead in the third inning when an error allowed two runs to score, Seward came back with three runs in the fifth for a 3-2 advantage. After a pair of singles Grant Cox and Blaine Chancy, Jacob Urias laid down a bunt single to load the bases. Cox scored when Colton Rowan grounded into a fielder's choice. Nathan Hopkins followed with a single to load the bases and Wakui came through with a single to score Urias and Rowan and give the Saints the lead.

Seward added two more runs in the ninth on Hopkins' sacrifice fly and a Wakui RBI single to cap the scoring and the final 5-2 margin.

Aldo Ostos pitched four innings of shutout relief, allowed two hits, struck out four and walked one to post the win. John Langehennig tossed a scoreless ninth to get the save.

Seward starter Logan Tice was effective, gave up only two runs, both unearned, on three hits, struck out two and walked none over four innings.