CCCC goes 1-1 against Greyhounds

FORT SCOTT — McKenna Mayhew scored on a Zoie Kincade fly ball in the top of the ninth inning to propel the Cloud County Community College softball team to a 6-5 victory over Fort Scott Community College in the opening game of a Jayhawk Conference Division II doubleheader on Wednesday.
Cloud County, which dropped the second game of the twinbill 10-6, put up three runs in the top of the seventh inning to pull even with Fort Scott at 5-5.
Neither team would score in the first extra inning.
Mayhew doubled to lead off the top of the ninth inning. Jayden Rehlander reached base on an error and Mayhew advanced to third.
With one out, a fly ball by Kincade got Mayhew home with the go-ahead run.
Taylor Dekok retired the first two batters she faced in the bottom of the ninth inning.
Ally Bartley doubled, but Dekok got Saedra Allen to fly out to end the game.
Dekok pitched all nine innings to get the win. She allowed five runs, four earned, on eight hits, and struck out three.
Mayhew had three hits in three at bats with two runs batted in and two runs scored for the Thunderbirds.
Hannah Hotalen had three hits.
Ryleigh Jones had two hits and scored three runs.
Fort Scott scored one run in the first inning.
Jones scored on a single by Mayhew in the top of the fifth inning to pull Cloud County even at 1-1.
Fort Scott answered with three runs in the bottom of the third inning to go up 4-1.
The Greyhounds added a run in the sixth inning and led 5-1.
Cloud County rallied in the top of the seventh.
Mayhew singled home Jones and Kaitlynn Baca scored on an error.
Rehlander knocked in Mayhew with a single.
The T-Birds then scored the winning run in the ninth.
Fort Scott jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning in game two.
A three-run home run by Kincade in the top of the second inning tied the game at 3-3.
Scoring a run in the bottom of the second, the Greyhounds went back on top, 4-3.
Dekok hit a two-run home run in the top of the third inning to give the T-Birds their first lead of the game at 5-4.
Fort Scott put up six runs in the fifth inning, and led 10-5.
Hotalen scored an unearned run in the sixth inning for Cloud County to make it 10-6.
Kiera Brack worked six innings in suffering the loss. She allowed 10 runs, six earned, on 12 hits and walked one.
Rehlander and Brooklynn McCormick had two hits each for the T-Birds.