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Box Score 2 GARDEN CITY, Kan. — A Dodge City Community College baseball team that entered Saturday's series with Garden City on a KJCCC-best nine-game winning streak took a solid 3-0 lead over the Broncbusters heading to the bottom of the fourth.
That's when things went bad for the Conquistadors.
Garden City scored 17 unanswered runs over the next eight innings spanning into game two as DC3 dropped both ends of a doubleheader, 10-3 and 9-7, at Williams Field.
The first-place Broncbusters (31-9, 16-6) in game one scored four in the bottom of the fourth and six more in the sixth to come away with the 10-3 victory before taking a 7-0 lead after five innings in game two and holding on for the 9-7 win over the Conqs (28-10, 11-7).
DC3 jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning of game one on a
Jake Pederson RBI double and a
Jason Nichols sacrifice fly. The lead grew to 3-0 on a double-steal attempt in the third inning and the Conqs took that lead into the bottom of the fourth.
But a Mason Brown triple to lead off the fourth followed by a
Jay Rawlins wild pitch made it 3-1 and ignited what turned into a four-run inning for the Broncbusters to take a 4-3 lead (only the first run was earned due to a DC3 error in the inning).
The score remained that way until the Broncbusters exploded for six in the sixth to put the game out of reach.
Rawlins got the loss, giving up five runs (two earned) on nine hits with four strikeouts and two walks.
Pederson paced the Conqs at the plate, going 2-for-4 with an RBI and a run.
Noah Draper got the win for Garden City, going 4.1 innings and giving up three runs on four hits with four strikeouts and four walks.
Brooks Benson went 2-for-4 with two RBI while Sean Kennedy hit a pinch-hit, three-run homer in the sixth.
In game two the Conqs fell behind 7-0, but rallied with a six-run sixth inning highlighted by a
Jake Pederson two-run double to cut the Garden City lead to one.
Garden answered in the bottom of the inning with a two-run home run by CJ Krainock to push the lead to 9-6 and the Conqs wouldn't get closer than two the rest of the contest.
Layne Downing picked up the loss, going 3.2 innings and giving up five runs on seven hits with four strikeouts and five walks.
Richard Fullerton finished 3-for-5 with a double and RBI in game two while Pederson,
Ricky Trammell and
Ivan Gonzalez each had two hits.
Connor Burns got the win for Garden City, going 5.2 innings and giving up five runs on nine hits with four strikeouts and two walks. Ray Monje got the save, pitching a perfect ninth.
Mason Brown led Garden City at the plate, going 3-for-4 with three RBI.
The Conqs have lost 14 straight games against the Broncbusters in Garden City with its last win coming in 2008.
The two teams meet again 1 p.m. Sunday at Williams Field in Garden City.
