Trinidad State takes a pair of comeback wins Monday over MCC Baseball

TRINIDAD, Colo. – The McCook Community College baseball team was unable to hold leads in both ends of a Monday Doubleheader and lost to Trinidad State. The Trojans won 8-7 in Game 1 on a two-run, walk-off home run, and won the second game 14-11.

"It was a super disappointing day," said MCC Coach Jon Olsen. "We spent both games building multiple leads just to see then disappear multiple times."

In Game 2, MCC led 4-1 after three innings and 11-7 in the top of the sixth but Trinidad scored seven runs in the sixth inning.

"We just didn't do the little things defensively not necessary errors but just little things where we could have got an out here or there to get us out of a big inning, plus we just didn't pitch good enough at the end of either game," said Olsen.

Trinidad State improves to 7-14 overall and 5-2 in Region IX play.

MCC goes to 7-11 overall and 2-5 in region play. The team is scheduled to travel to Norfolk Wednesday for a 2 p.m. game against Northeast Community College.

This weekend MCC is scheduled for its home opener against Southeast Community College. The three-game Empire League North series begins at 2 p.m. Saturday with a pair of games Sunday starting at 1 p.m.

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GAME 1 – Trinidad State 8, McCook CC 7: Trinidad scored the game winner in the seventh on a two-run home run by Oliver Mabee.

MCC got off to a fast start going up 3-0 in the first inning on an RBI-single from Ethan Murdoch (Swift Current, Saskatchewan), a sacrifice fly from Josh Maysonave (Austin, Texas) and an RBI-single from Abel Reyes (sophomore, Puerto Caimito, Panama).

Trinidad State scored a run in the bottom of the third, but MCC came back to take a 5-1 lead in the fourth on a walk and three straight two-out singles from sophomore Trent Elshire (Plattsmouth), Michael Quick (freshman, Oshawa, Ontario) and Murdoch.

The Trojans tied the game 5-5 with four runs in the fifth on a pair of homers.

Quick tripled to lead off the sixth and later scored on a wild pitch but Trinidad tied the game at 6-6 with a run in the sixth.

Zeke Minic (Thornton, Colo.) singled to lead off the MCC seventh, went to third on a TSJC error and scored on an RBI-groundout with freshman Jackson Yeager (Omaha Westside) batting.

Freshman Myles Chabi (Sydney, Australia) started the game for MCC and went 4.2 innings, allowing three hits, three earned runs, two walks and five strikeouts. Ethan Badcock (freshman Adelade, Australia) pitched the final 1.2 innings and surrendered four earned runs on four hits, one walk and one strikeout.

MCC outhit TSJC 11-4 with three hits from Quick and two each by Elshire, Murdoch and Reyes.

GAME 2 – Trinidad State 14, McCook CC 11: MCC scored two runs in the first on consecutive singles from Trent Elshire, Michael Quick and Ethan Murdoch and a fielder's choice. In the MCC second, sophomore Tyus Chudomelka (Bellevue) doubled and made it a 3-1 game when he scored on a fielder's choice. Murdoch homered to lead off the third and put MCC up 4-1.

After Trinidad scored three runs in the bottom of the fourth to tie the game, MCC responded with four runs in the fifth keyed by a three-run home run from Jason Serafinchon (Spruce Grove, Alberta) to put MCC up 8-4 but Trinidad countered with three runs in the bottom of the fifth.

MCC starter Owen Lester (St. Charles, Ill.) pitched four innings, allowing four earned runs on six hits, three walks and seven strikeouts. Jereniel Herrera (freshman, Panama City, Panama) went one inning and surrendered three earned runs on five hits.

A leadoff homer by sophomore Alliskair Descartes (Thornton, Colo.) sparked a three-run sixth inning by MCC. Two walks and a hit batter set the table for a two-run single by sophomore Abel Reyes (Puerto Caimito, Panama) to put MCC up 11-7. But Trinidad went through four MCC hurlers in the bottom of the sixth scoring seven runs.

Relievers Jelle Bing (sophomore Heerhagoaard, Netherlands), Rocky Yates (redshirt freshman, Sydney, Australia) and collectively pitched a third of an inning and were tagged with six earned runs. Freshman William Coe (North Platte, Neb.) finished the final two-third of an inning of scoreless relief on a pair of walks.

MCC had 11 hits in the game with three from Murdoch and two each by Quick and Descartes.