CCCC blanks Colby, earns split

Three pitchers combined on a four-hit shutout as the Cloud County Community College baseball team downed Colby Community College 7-0 in the second game of a Jayhawk Conference doubleheader Thursday at the Concordia Sports Complex.
Phil Brennaman pitched the first seven innings to get the win for Cloud County. He gave up four hits and struck out nine.
Brady Stuewe and Cole Askew worked one scoreless inning each for the Thunderbirds.
Cloud County dropped the first game of the twinbill 9-4 and is now 31-18 overall and 18-10 in the conference.
The T-Birds scored a run in the bottom of the first inning to go on top to stay in game two.
Danny Infante singled to drive in Gavin Roy.
A solo home run by Alexander Diaz in the second inning gave Cloud County a 2-0 advantage.
Infante scored on a fly ball by Justin Johnson and Brock Wollin singled to drive in Demitri Shakotko in the seventh inning to push the T-Birds' lead to 4-0.
Cloud County added three runs in the eighth inning.
Roy scored on a sacrifice fly by Infante.
Shakotko knocked in Anthony Taggart with a single and scored on an error.
Roy and Shakotko had two hits and scored two runs each.
Scoring one run in the first inning, five in the third and three in the fourth, Colby got out to a 9-0 lead in game one.
Shakotko doubled to drive in Landon Meyer and scored on a single by Wollin in the bottom of the fifth inning, and Cloud County trailed 9-2.
The T-Birds added two runs in the sixth inning.
Johnson scored on an error and a ground ball by Meyer got Diaz home.
Mason McConnaughey, the first of six Cloud County pitchers, took the loss. He allowed six runs on seven hits, struck out five and walked two in three innings.
Mason Munz, Scott Rienguette, Lucas O'Keefe, Carson Latimer and Wil Yamka pitched in relief.
Shakotko had four hits in four at bats in the game.
Roy had two hits.