Allen Community College’s baseball team dropped a pair of games, 14-3 and 14-2, to Cowley Community College Tuesday.
“Every single one of our pitchers has been throwing the past week,” coach Clint Stoy said. “We’re still on pitch counts and their safety is more important than winning baseball games in early March. (Cowley) is really good, they haven’t lost yet. They’ve got one of the better junior college programs that I’ve seen in a while.”
In game one, Allen was down 14-0 entering the fifth inning. Jeremy Thomas got the Red Devils on the board with a sacrifice fly that scored Derrick Weir.
With two outs, Ryne Martinez kept the inning alive after Nate Ek drew a walk by lacing a double to left field. Caeden Harris and Ek both scored on the play. Cameron Pope popped out to end the inning and game.
The Red Devils only had two hits in the game, Martinez’s double and Weir’s single to start the fifth.
Cowley had seven different players record an RBI.
The second game was just as rough. Allen trailed 13-0 entering the bottom of the sixth inning
Thomas reached on a single to start the frame. Hunter Murrow was hit by a pitch and Martinez walked to load the bases. Alex Lugo came up with an RBI single, which also kept the bases loaded. Gunar Drinnen followed with another RB single, which again, kept the bases loaded.
With still no outs, some base running mistakes doomed the Red Devils. Up at the plate, Harris struck out with both Drinnen and Lugo leading too far off their bases. Cowley’s catcher threw the ball to first to tag out Drinnen and Lugo was tagged out in a rundown heading back to second base. It was a triple play.
“Our baserunner got off a little too far and slipped,” Stoy said. “Then they back-picked. It’s just one of the reasons baseball exists because you never know what’s going to happen.”
Allen wasn’t able to get any more runs across the board in the seventh and lost the game.
ACC finished the game with six hits. Lugo was the only Red Devil with multiple hits — two singles. Martinez had the only extra-base hit, a double in the first inning. Thomas, Murrow and Drinnen each had a single.
The Red Devils (2-11) will travel to Independence Thursday for back-to-back games.
Allen hosts Indy on Saturday in a doubleheader starting at 2 p.m.
“Everything you’ve heard about them is everything you’ve heard about us,” Stoy said. “We’re in last place in the conference and so we’ve got to try to climb out of the cellar. The only way to do that is to just keep working day to day and focusing on the process.”
Red Devil offense stalls against Cowley
