NO. 21 BLUE DRAGONS TOSS PAIR OF SHUTOUTS AT LARKS

Quinn Maher hits a three-run home run in Game 1 of a doubleheader sweep by the No. 21 Blue Dragons over Hesston College on Tuesday at Hobart-Detter Field. (Sammi Carpenter/Blue Dragon Sports Information)

March 4, 2025

Hutchinson CC Sports Information

Four Hutchinson Community College pitchers combined to toss a pair of shutouts as the No. 21-ranked Blue Dragons swept a doubleheader from the Hesston Larks on Tuesday at Hobart-Detter Field.
The Blue Dragons completed a four-game season sweep of the Larks, winning 11-0 and 10-0, both games went five innings.

Hutchinson is now 13-2 entering the 2025 Jayhawk West opener on Thursday at Dodge City. Hesston fell to 2-12.

GAME 1 RECAP – Hutchinson 11, Hesston 0 (5 innings)
Freshman pitchers Brooks Jones and A.J. Doll combined on a four-hit shutout in doubleheader opener.

Jones (1-0) threw four innings allowing four hits and two walks with five strikeouts. The Blue Dragon defense helped Jones out by turning two double plays.

Doll struck out the side to close out the game in the fifth inning.

Offensively, Quinn Maher hit his first home run of the season, hitting a three-run homer to center in the first inning. Maher was also hit by a pitch and scored two runs.

Finn Hochstein drove in a season-high four RBIs, going 2 for 3 with a pair of two-run singles.

Anthony Mazza, who was named the Jayhawk West Player of the Week on Tuesday, went 2 for 3 with two doubles, two runs and two RBIs to extend his hitting streak to start the season to 14 games.

The Blue Dragons had eight total hits in the game.

GAME 2 RECAP – Hutchinson 10, Hesston 0 (5 innings)
Freshmen pitchers Aidan Doty and Beckett Lund improved on the Game 1 performance with a combined two-hit shutout in Game 2.

Doty struck out a season-high six batters and allowed two hits and one walk in four innings. Lund made his season debut with two strikeouts in a 1-2-3 fifth inning.

The Blue Dragons broke the game open with a nine-run second inning with 13 batters going to the plate. Trent Black had a two-run double, Ryan Ruggiero and Nick Glantz had RBI doubles; C.J. Reed added a run-scoring single. Hochstein followed with a two-run triple, Leo Griffin had an RBI single and Scotty Fagen closed the inning with an RBI double as Hutchinson had seven of its eight total hits in the second inning.

Eight different Blue Dragons had hits with four doubles and a triple.

The Blue Dragons had their fifth and sixth run-rule wins this season.