No. 24 Barton Baseball erupts for 43 runs in sweep at McPherson College JV #GoBarton

Cougar batters smacked six home runs and Cougar pitchers allowed a combined three runs and struck out a combined 23 hitters as the No. 24 ranked Barton Community College baseball team provided a record-breaking doubleheader sweep of the McPherson College junior varsity squad on Tuesday afternoon at Bulldog Field.

Led behind Kyle Walker's pair of sacrifice fly's, Tate Blasi's two-run home run in the sixth and Braden Hauschel's 13-strikeout complete game shutout, the Cougars claimed a 6-0 victory in Game 1.

In the nightcap, Wyatt Yetter's second blast of the season erupted a sequence of collegiate first home runs from Kaeden Fenton, Carter Helm, Cooper Tabor and Hunter Houfek, as Barton finished off a five-inning 37-3 run rule victory in Game 2, for the program's most runs scored in a single game.

Winners of now nine straight, the Cougars improve to 27-8 overall while the Bulldogs junior varsity team drops to 4-15 on the season.

Barton will conclude its six-game road trip on Thursday afternoon with the opening two games of a four-game set at Garden City Community College. First pitch between the Cougars and Broncbusters is slated for 1:00 p.m. on Thursday from Williams Field before concluding the series on Saturday with a same start time at Lawson-Biggs Field.

Scoring a pair of runs in the first, fifth and sixth frames of the opener, the Barton bats exploded in the nightcap with runs in all five at-bats surpassing seven or more runs in four of the five innings.

16 different Cougars collected a hit and RBI over the pair of games keyed behind Tyler Janssen's four RBI afternoon finishing 1-for-1 with a triple and pair of walks.

Walker and Ayden Hadley contributed with nine of Barton's 34 hits in the twinbill. Walker fashioning a 5-for-9 day at the plate with a pair of runs brought home and trio of doubles coming in game two. Hadley extended his hitting streak to a season best nine straight games behind a 2-for-3 game 1 performance and 2-for-2 game two effort finishing with a double and two RBIs.  

Fenton started Barton's trend of collegiate firsts in game two with a three-run home run in the eight run third before a trio of firsts ensued in the seven run fourth inning on Helm's three run fence clearer operating the first of back-to-back jacks with Tabor's solo-shot succeeding and Houfek's three-run blast capping the three-home run inning.

Hauschel set the tone on the mound with his game one complete game shutout as the sophomore improved to 3-1 on the year scattering two hits, two walks with a new career high 13 strikeouts.

Pitching by a scheduled committee in game two, starter Eli Lang (2-0) notched the win working the opening two innings with one hit and three strikeouts.

Jackson MacWilliams tossed a clean third frame with two punchouts, Cam Bergstrom handled the fourth allowing a run on one hit, two walks and three strikeouts before giving way to Parker Volski for the fifth with the sophomore permitting two runs on one hit, three walks and two strikeouts.