Wow!! Tigers rally from eight runs down to record third straight walk-off win
| Final (10) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | R | H | E | |
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Kansas City Kansas Community College | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 1 |
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Cowley County Community College | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 20 | 1 |
Different game, different hero. Make that three games at the Region VI Tournament and three walk-off wins for the top-seeded Cowley College baseball team. This time, the Tigers roared back from an 8-0 deficit to defeat third-seeded Kansas City Kansas Community College 9-8 on sophomore shortstop David Herring's solo home run in the bottom of the 10th inning Thursday at Kansas State University's Tointon Family Stadium.
Nothing seems to faze this team, three-hour weather delays, games that begin one day and end another, games that end just before midnight, and apparently an eight-run deficit can't slow down this Tiger baseball squad.
With the win, Cowley is now 49-9 on the season and advance to play in Friday's championship. Cowley will wait to see who they will face at 4 p.m. Friday. The Tigers, which are unbeaten in the double elimination tournament, need to win just one more game to qualify for a second straight JUCO World Series appearance.
On Thursday, KCK scored seven runs in the first inning as they chased Cowley starting pitcher J'Briell Easley from the game before the right-hander could record an out. The Blue Devils would tack on a run in the second inning off Chance Condit before Brigden Parker, Carlton Perkins, Aaron Weber, and Isaac Stebens (3-1) combined to hold KCK scoreless over the final eight innings of play.
With the Cowley pitching settling down after the tough start, the Tigers batted around and scored six runs in the bottom of the fourth inning. Run scoring singles by Conner Gore and Janson Reeder, in the sixth and seventh innings, helped tie the game at 8-8.
Camden Karlin, the fifth pitcher called on by the Blue Devils surrendered the solo home run, Herring's ninth of the season. The loss for Karlin (6-1) was his first of the season as Kansas City is now 49-11.
Logan Vaughan and Bryce Madron had four hits apiece as Cowley out-hit KCK 20-8.
One more victory would give Cowley its first 50-win season since 2015 and mark just the fifth time in the illustrious history of the program that the Tigers would reach the 50-win plateau.
Score by inning: R H E
KCK 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 – 8 8 1
Cowley 0 0 0 6 0 1 1 0 0 1 – 9 20 1