By TODD MOORE
Barton Sports Info
The Barton Community College softball team split its conference doubleheader today at Dodge City Community College by winning the opener 5-2 before falling 7-2 in the nightcap.
As Barton's high powered offense was mostly on hiatus during the day, the Cougars' needed freshman pitcher Meleia Ingram's career high thirteen strikeouts in holding off the Conquistadors for the game one victory.
The Cougars received a mostly solid outing in game two circle outing from Brooklynn Angielski but offensively could muster up just five hits combined with four costly errors led to Barton's 11-game regular season victory stretch coming to a close over the Conquistadors.
The results leave Barton 20-4 in league and 26-10 overall as Dodge City moves to 12-10 in conference play and 20-20 on the season.
Having a few days rest before a Monday 1:00 p.m. doubleheader hosting Southeast Community College, the Cougars get back to conference action the following Wednesday hosting Pratt Community College.
Ingram struck out nine through the first three innings, another pair in the fifth, with one in each of the final two frames while scattering just three hits to improve to 14-4 on the year.
Barton's normally high powered offense was limited to twelve hits in their fourteen innings of plate work, led in the opener by Morgan Thatcher's 2-of-3 performance including a fifth inning, 2-RBI single erasing Dodge City's 2-1 advantage.
Laney Wood led the Cougars' total with three, two coming in the opener adding another in the nightcap to also steal three bases in scoring two of Barton runs.