DODGE CITY -- Barton Cougar pitcher Meleia Ingram twirled her second straight shutout over the Hutchinson Blue Dragons 2-0 in the Region 6 Tournament at Legends Field in Dodge City.
Barton (34-14) advances to Saturday's winner's bracket final against No. 4 seeded Garden City (28-20) after the Broncbusters upset the top-seeded Grizzlies of Butler 4-2. Meanwhile
Hutchinson (36-10) plays Dodge City in the consolation bracket.
Ingram followed Brooklyn Angielski's earlier performance with four no-hit hit innings before allowing her first single in the sixth and pair in the seventh finishing with just three hits scattered with three walks, a hit batsman and six strikeouts.
The shutout marks Ingram's fourth of the season and second straight against the Blue Dragons coming just five days prior at Cougar Field in the 3-0 victory, snapping the Cougars 17-game losing streak to Hutchinson.
Barton outhit the Blue Dragons 4-3 with three of their hits coming in the opening two-innings and other lone hit on Mia Mascarenas leadoff fifth inning single.
Just like in their opening round victory over Colby, the Cougars manufactured all their runs in one inning once again scoring their pair in the top of the second.
Peyton McCormick drew a leadoff walk with Elina Bartlett following with the first of Barton's two-straight hits. Karter Alvord broke the scoreless tie with the eventual game winning two-run double on the ensuing pitch for the 2-0 lead.
Hutchinson put runners at third base just twice in the opening frame and the home seventh with Ingram buckling down working around the bases loaded one-out jam with back-to-back fielder's choices in preserving the shutout.
COUGARS 5, COLBY 1 -- The Barton Cougars won its opening round game of the Region 6/Plains District Tournament Friday afternoon 5-1 over Colby Community College at Dodge City's Legends Park.
The Cougars did all their damage in their first at-bat sending 11 different batters to the plate producing four of their eight hits while benefitting off three walks and a hit batsman for a 5-0 first inning lead.
Seeded 3rd in the tournament, Barton improves to 33-14 on the year advancing to Friday evening's 6:00 p.m. winner's bracket contest with No. 2 seeded Hutchinson Community College (36-9). The Blue Dragons survived No. 7 seeded Seward County Community College 1-0 in their earlier contest. Colby now 30-26 on the year will look to keep their season alive meeting the Saints in the elimination contest also scheduled for 6:00 p.m.
The victor of the Barton and Hutchinson matchup moves on to Saturday's winner's bracket 4:00 p.m.semifinal against the winner of top seeded Butler Community College and No. 4 Garden City Community College.
Aly Lawrence's one-out solo-shot to straight away center for her fifth of the season opened the scoring.Elina Bartlett's double four batters later increased the lead to 3-0 scoring Allyson McDougal's single and Peyton McCormick's two-out walk. Karter Alvord's ensuing RBI single added a fourth run with Laney Wood's bases loaded walk capping the five-run inning.
Barton had a pair of prime scoring opportunities but came up empty in the second leaving the bases loaded and stranding McDougal's leadoff triple to open the fourth.
In the circle, Brooklynn Angielski tossed four perfect innings before back-to-back leadoff singles in the fifth formed Colby's lone run of the game coming off the third Trojan single in the frame. Following the fourth single of the inning, the sophomore worked out of the jam with a strikeout and groundout keeping Colby to just one run.
Angielski improved to 12-7 on the season tossing her eighth complete game of the season, scattering six hits, one run with a pair of strikeouts.
