T-Birds take two from Mavericks

SALINA — Six different players drove in runs as the Cloud County Community College softball team completed a sweep of Northwest Kansas Technical College with an 11-3 victory in game two.
The doubleheader was played Sunday at Salina South High School.
Cloud County (7-4) scored three runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to pull out a 7-4 win in the first game of the twinbill.
The Thunderbirds jumped out to a 6-0 lead in game two.
Delaney Exon scored the first run on an error.
Another error allowed Zoie Kincade to score.
Rae Ann Hartwig was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to force home a run.
Shayna Fila knocked in two runs with a single.
A ground ball by Ryleigh Jones got Hartwig home.
Northwest Kansas Tech made it 6-1 with a run in the top of the third inning.
Cloud County upped the lead to 8-1 with two runs in the bottom of the third.
Kincade scored on a ground ball by Alexis Billings.
Ella Caudill singled home Taylor Dekok.
Each team scored a run in the fourth inning, and it was 9-2.
The Mavericks made it 9-3 with a run in the top of the fifth inning.
Scoring two runs in the bottom of the fifth, the T-Birds ended the game because of the eight-run rule.
Caudill singled to drive in Billings with the first run.
A single by Mia Kelly got Caudill home.
Dekok picked up the win for Cloud County. She gave up two runs on six hits, struck out three and walked two in five innings.
Caudill had two hits in two at bats, drove in two runs and scored two.
Fila and Dekok had two hits each.
In the first game of the doubleheader, the T-Birds scored two runs in the bottom of the first inning.
Exon singled to drive in Fila and Jones scored on a ground ball by Kincade.
Single runs in the second and third innings gave Cloud County a 4-0 advantage.
Northwest Kansas Tech put up three runs in the top of the fifth inning and in the sixth to pull even at 4-4.
With two out in the bottom of the sixth inning, Kelsey Bohnsack walked and stole second. She scored on a single by Hartwig.
Hartwig got home on an error on a ball hit by Fila.
Exon singled to drive in Fila and made it a 7-4 game.
Kyra Meyer shut out the Mavericks in the top of the seventh to cap off the win. She allowed four runs on 10 hits, struck out two and walked one in seven innings.
Exon was 3-for-4 at the plate with two runs batted in.