By Brandon Smith - Barton Athletics
Dryden Howse provided the key knock on Saturday delivering a walk-off double in the bottom of the seventh inning to lead the Barton Community College baseball team to a come from behind 5-4 victory over Garden City Community College in the opener at Lawson-Biggs Field.
Jordan Ellison supplied the knockout blow in the nightcap blasting his second grand slam of the season in the eighth to defeat Garden City 12-5 in the series finale, sweeping the four game weekend set.
Claiming their third weekend series victory through four conference tussle's, the Cougars sit a game back of Colby Community College in the KJCCC West standings at 12-4 improving their overall mark to 22-9 while the Broncbusters suffer their second conference series defeat dropping to 3-9 in league play and falling to 10-22-1 on the season.
Barton's next action comes Tuesday in hosting a 5:00 p.m. non-conference nine-inning affair against the Larks of Hesston College before beginning a key conference series in welcoming in the Blue Dragons of Hutchinson Community College on Thursday with the backend shifting to Hutchinson's Hobart-Detter Stadium on Saturday.