Ingram's perfect game and Cougars' eight home runs lead sweep hosting Pratt #GoBarton

The Barton Community College softball team picked up a pair of five inning, run-rule shortened victories Wednesday at Cougar Field defeating Pratt Community College 19-0 and 27-1.

In addition to the nineteen opening game runs, the big story was Meleia Ingram as the freshman pitcher from Salina not only struck out twelve batters but sent the Beavers down in order every frame by throwing a rare perfect game outing improving to 16-4 on the year.

Striking out the side in three of the five innings, Ingram faced the minimum by not issuing any free passes with the Beavers only putting the ball in play three times on infield groundouts.

The perfect game is believed to be the program's first in atleast the last fifteen years, while the no-hitter is the first since Payton Reynolds' one walk with six strikeout performance blanking Garden City on March 4 of the 2017 season.

Offensively, the Cougars pounded out 47 hits in the twinbill, eight leaving the yard with six coming in game two highlighted by Peyton McCormick's trio of fence clearers.

Elina Bartlett contributed a pair to the total, the first leading off the opener's second inning before clearing the bags on a grand slam in the nightcap's third frame. The 8th dinger of the sophomore's season lit the big fly candle as McCormick followed with her first of the day as Mia Mascarenas sent the Cougars' third straight bomb out of play for her 5th of the year.

McCormick would come to the plate again in the inning for another solo shot as Barton sent seventeen to the dish in the 12-run frame, then belted her 13th home run of the year in the ensuing fourth inning, driving in another three runs of her six RBI afternoon.

Joining Bartlett for a game one homerun, Morgan Thatcher drove in two on her second ya-ya of the season highlighting a 7-run third inning.

Aly Lawrence produced her third of the season in the Cougars' 9-run, game two first frame on a 2-run shot.

At the top of the lineup, Laney Wood led all players with 7 hits, a pair of those coming on the two-bag variety and drove in three runs.

Four Cougars finished with six hits on the afternoon, Grace Hembree batting out of the No. 9 hole going a perfect 4-of-4 with an RBI while catching the no-hitter in the opener, then followed with a 2-for-4 performance including her second double of the day, driving in another pair of runs.

Bartlett and McCormick also finished with six hits, as did Allyson McDougal in the return to the lineup going 6-of-8. Missing the previous seven games, McDougal picked up where she left beginning with a first-pitch drive up the middle kick-starting a pair of 3-for-4 games including a double and triple in driving in four runs on the afternoon.

Brooklynn Angielski gave the Cougars another solid pitching performance in game two, scattering just eight hits with one walk and two strikeouts, improving to 11-6 on the sophomore's season.

Pratt's lone run came in the nightcap's second frame, a pair of infield singles within its three consecutive hits followed by a fielder's choice pushing across the tally.