CCCC Baseball Splits Doubleheader

BEATRICE, Neb. — Wrapping up a four-game series on the road, the Cloud County Community College baseball team split a double-header with Southeast Community College on Saturday.
Jack Macintosh pitched a complete game as Cloud County clipped Southeast 3-2 in the opening game of the twinbill.
The Bobcats scored eight runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to capture an 17-11 victory in the second game.
The two teams also split the first two games of the series played last Thursday at the Concordia Sports Complex.
Macintosh gave up two runs on six hits, struck out 10 and didn't walk any in getting the win in game one on Saturday.
The game was scoreless through three innings.
Demitri Shakotko put Cloud County on top to stay with a solo home run in the top of the fourth inning.
Cloud County, now 9-4 this season, added two runs in the fifth inning to make it 3-0.
Cam MaCleod scored on an error on a ball hit by Stryker Hake.
A fly ball by Nolan Freund got Landon Meyer home.
Southeast (6-6) scored its first run in the bottom of the fifth inning.
The Bobcats had Drew Borner reach base on an error to lead off the bottom of the seventh inning.
Macintosh got Korey Cozad to ground into a double-play.
Peyton Moore hit a solo home run to pull Southeast within a run, 3-2.
Kameron Arrington singled and moved to second on a wild pitch.
Macintosh struck out Cole Carter to end the game.
Cloud County scored three runs on six hits.
In game two, the Thunderbirds fell behind the Bobcats 2-0 in the first inning.
Cloud County put up six runs in the top of the second inning.
Easton Norris singled home TJ Coats in the top of the third inning, and the T-Birds led 7-2.
Two runs in the bottom of the third inning and four more in the fourth gave Southeast the lead back at 8-7.
A solo home run in the fifth inning upped the Bobcats’ lead to 9-7.
Paul Schuyler scored on a double by Shakotko in the top of the sixth inning to make it 9-8.
Cloud County put up three runs in the top of the seventh inning to reclaim the lead at 11-9.
Schuyler doubled and scored the first run on a wild pitch.
Gavin Roy, who was hit by a pitch, also scored on a wild pitch.
Freund singled to drive in Shakotko.
Southeast erupted for eight runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to go up 17-11.
Cloud County was scoreless in the top of the ninth.
Roy had two hits and drove in two runs for the T-Birds.
Schuyler and Freund had two hits each and Shakotko and Norris knocked in two runs each.