The Barton Community College softball team split each of its two days of action on a weekend swing through Oklahoma.
The Cougars opened up on Saturday at Northern Oklahoma College-Enid, dropping the first game 6-4 before taking the second in a five inning 8-0 shutout.
Traveling the near four hours to the southeast part of the state, Barton took the first game 7-3 at Eastern Oklahoma State College but fell in the weekend finale 4-3 in walk-off fashion.
Now 6-4 on the season, Barton was to have a final tune-up on Tuesday hosting Bethany College JV but since has been cancelled due to low temperatures. The Cougars will now take the week indoors preparing for Saturday's home 1:00 p.m. conference opening doubleheader against Garden City Community College.
Both Cougar pitchers went 1-1 on the weekend as each move to 3-2 on the year. Game one starter Kayla Beers pitching 10.1 innings, striking out four, earning the victory Sunday allowing just two earned runs of the three scored. Jessica Morgan took over for each of the second games, earning the victory over NOC-Enid spinning a two-hitter before taking the hard luck loss on Sunday despite striking out eight of her twelve on the weekend.
Teegan Krol led the Barton offense batting .545, collecting six hits including a double and home run in driving across five runs. Halie Stoneking also connected on her first home run of the season, joined by Kennedee Lara in collecting five total hits each. Lexi Dryden again solidified the bottom of the lineup batting .333 with four RBI.