DRAGONS RESPOND POSITIVELY AFTER FIRST LOSS
Hutchinson CC Sports Information
After being stunned by its first loss of the season, the No. 21-ranked Hutchinson Community College baseball team showed plenty of resiliency on Thursday at Hobart-Detter Field.
Coffeyville shocked the Blue Dragons with a seven-run final inning to rally from four runs down for a 9-6 victory over Hutchinson in Game 1 of a four-game non-KJCCC series. The Blue Dragons responded with Anthony Mazza leading a 10-hit attack with three hits and four RBIs as Hutchinson run-ruled Coffeyville 15-5 in seven innings.
Hutchinson is now 10-1. The Game 1 loss snapped the Dragons' program-record-tying nine-game winning streak to start the season. Coffeyville is 7-2. Games 3 and 4 of the series will be at Walter Johnson Park in Coffeyville at 1 and 3:30 p.m. on Saturday.
GAME 2 Recap – Hutchinson 15, Coffeyville 5 (7 innings)
Mazza continued his torrid start to the season and extended his hitting streak to 11 games to lead the Dragons in Game 2.
Mazza went 3 for 3 for his ninth multi-hit game of the season with a double, two singles, two runs scored and four RBIs. Mazza's RBI single in the second was part of a four-run inning. He laced an RBI double in the Dragons' three run third inning and drove a two-run single through the right side of Hutchinson's eight-run fifth inning.
The Blue Dragons pounded out 10 hits and took advantage of four Coffeyville errors and 11 Red Raven walks.
A.J. Mustow went 2 for 3 with double, two runs scored and two RBIs. Leo Griffin was 2 for 3 with two runs scored, an RBI and stolen base.
Starting pitcher Gabe Perry (3-0) pitched a season-high five innings to earn his third win of the season. He allowed only two hits and one earned run with two strikeouts and no walks. Perry, Beau Pasteur and Aiden Doty held Coffeyville to six hits.
GAME 1 Recap – Coffeyville 9, Hutchinson 6
The Blue Dragons got off to a hot start in Game 1 with two runs in the first inning after an RBI triple by Taber Stokes and an RBI groundout from C.J. Reid. After the Red Ravens tied the game at 2-all in the second, the Dragons re-claimed the lead in the third with two unearned runs. Mazza doubled in a run and later scored on an errant throw while he was advancing to third on a wild pitch.
The Dragons took a 6-2 lead on a Mustow two-run double to right field in the fifth inning.
Coffeyville threatened in the fifth and sixth innings, stranding five runners on base in those innings. The Red Ravens then scored seven runs in the top of the seventh. Tied at 6-6 with the bases loaded, Nathon Cruz hit a three-run double off the right-field wall for a 9-6 lead.
The Dragons were held to a season-low five hits. Mazza led Hutchinson, going 2 for 3 with three runs, two doubles and an RBI. Stokes, Reid and Mustow each had hits.
Starting pitcher Trenton Roehler worked a season-long five innings and allowed five hits, two runs and had a career-high nine strikeouts.
Noah McCombs (1-1) was tagged with the loss after allowing five hits and five runs.