GOODLAND -- The Barton Cougar softball team scored 36 runs to tag Northwest Kansas Tech with 22-2 and 14-5 softball losses.
The Cougars (22-16, 19-9 Jayhawk( drop Northwest Tech to 1-43, 1-27 Jayhawk.
The Cougars trailed 2-0 in the opener before a nine-run second inning followed by another seven lighting up the scoreboard in the ensuing frame highlighted 22 unanswered runs for the five inning victory.
Barton jumped out to a 4-0 lead to the third inning of game two, had the lead cut to one before answering with seven plate crossers in the fourth before tacking a clinching three more tallies in the fifth to pre-counter a Maverick two-run rally in their last at-bat.
Connecting on thirteen hits in both ends of the doubleheader, ten hits came from the combined effort of Chloe Enslinger and Allyson McDougal. Enslinger also led the squad with three doubles in driving home 7 runs while McDougal's double and triple within her 5-of-8 afternoon raised her average to a team best .489 batting average.
Leslie Ramos pushed across six runs in the opener including four crossing the dish on a second inning grand slam giving the Cougars the lead for good on her fourth round tripper.
Elina Bartlett (7-3) struck out five in three innings. Aly Lawrence (5-3) threw three innings in game two.
Alicia Goseland worked the final two innings of both games. Goseland’s first junior college at-bat produced a walk. She scored on Enslinger’s 2-run single.
Barton 097 33 – 22 13 1
NW Tech 200 00 – 2 4 5
Bartlett, Goseland (4) and Ramos. Valdez-Asato, James (2), Renteria (4) and Miller. W–Bartlett, 7-3. L–Valdez-Asato, 1-10 2B–BC–Bartlett 2, Enslinger; NW–Renteria, Miller. 3B–BC–McDougal. HR–BC–Ramos.
Barton 310 73 – 14 13 0
NW Tech 003 02 – 5 7 3
Lawrence, Goseland (4) and Enslinger. Valdez-Asatom James (4), Renteria (5) and Miller. W–Lawrence, 5-3. L–Valdez-Asato, 1-11. 2B–BC–Enslinger 2, Laci Dryden, McDougal; NW–Miller 2. HR–NW–Tecumseh.
JAYHAWK SOFTBALL
Butler 28-2 42-8
Hutchinson 26-4 39-9
Barton 21-9 26-16
Seward 19-11 25-19
Colby 18-12 25-23
Dodge City 10-18 10-28
Garden City 6-24 8-36
Pratt 5-25 9-39
NW Tech 1-29 1-45
4-24–Barton 13-13, Pratt 5-5; Butler 2-5, Colby 0-0; Dodge City 7-5, Seward 6-6; Hutchinson 9-13, Garden City 2-0
4-27–Hutchinson at Barton; NW Tech at Pratt; Seward at Butler; Garden City at Dodge City
4-28–McCook, Neb. at Colby
COUGARS 13, PRATT 5 (G1) – Chloe Enslinger drilled a homer and drove home four runs.
Aly Lawrence and Mikaila Herring drove in two runs. Leslie Ramos, Allyson McDougal and Elina Bartlett drove in runs. Bartlett (9-3) pitched three innings.
COUGARS 13, PRATT 5 (G2) – Lawrence drove home four runs. Enslinger homered for the second consecutive game and drove in three runs in a run-rule victory.
Herring drove in two runs. Laci Dryden, Kelsi Gaston and Mia Mascarenas drove in one run.
Barton 423 04 – 13 12 1
Pratt 203 00 – 5 3 1
Bartlett, Goseland (4) and Ramos. W–Bartlett, 9-3. 2B–BC– Lawrence, Ramos. HR–BC–Enslinger
Barton 072 40 – 13 12 1
Pratt 0 02 12 – 5 10 1
Lawrence, Angielski (4) and Enslinger. W–Lawrence 7-3. 2B–BC– Lawrence, Gaston, McDougal, Lani Dryden. HR–BC–Enslinger
