COUNCIL BLUFFS — Heading to Iowa for a double-header for only its third matchup in the month of March, the Cloud County Community College softball team dropped two games to Iowa Western CC.
In game one, the T-Birds lost 8-0.
The Reivers were close to pitching a perfect game, with the only blemish being a Shaylee Keslar walk in the top of the sixth inning breaking up the perfect game. Cloud would be unable to get on base as the T-Birds struck out 11 times, with nine being third strike swings.
This is the second no-hitter handed to the T-Birds.
Paige Mahler (2-5) was given the loss with eight runs allowed on eight hits and seven walks.
In game two, the T-Birds fell 7-5.
The Reivers scored first in the bottom of the second, with the T-Birds getting on the board in the top of the third to tie the game. Iowa Western retook the lead with a run scored in the bottom of the third inning, before picking up two more runs in the fourth inning. Cloud would cut the lead down to one, 4-3, with two runs scored in the top of the fifth, but the Reivers would keep the T-Birds at bay by tacking on a run in the bottom of the inning. The Reivers would pick up two insurance runs in the sixth to take a 7-3 lead, before Cloud came up short after scoring only two runs in the top of the seventh to end the game 7-5.
Brecken Whitney (3-3) was given the loss with seven runs allowed on eight hits and five walks.
Mahler had two runs scored on one hit and one walk.
Kia Stokes, Jillian Artiges, and Keslar each had one run scored with each being walked once.
Berkleigh Curtis (2) and Maliyah Koster each had a hit with a combined four RBIs.
