The North Central Missouri College baseball team opened a four-game series at St. Louis Community College on Friday afternoon in a positive fashion, grabbing their 13th win of the season with an 11-5 triumph. Sophomore Angel Reyes tossed five innings, allowing just one run, to earn the victory, striking out four Archers while walking two. With the bats, Braedyn Brewer was 4 for 5 with Kendrick Delima adding a 3 for 3 effort, scoring three times and adding three RBI’s. However, that win would be the “high water mark” in the weekend set against StLCC.
In falling in three straight games to finish the series, the Pirates saw their overall record slip to 13-33 for the year and 3-25 in Region XVI play.
Taking losses in the remaining three games of the series were freshmen Cash Miller, Clayton Bailey, and Brandin Hallier.
Delima broke the school record for home runs in a season by knocking a solo shot game two on Friday. His total is now 11 for the season. He leads the 2019 Pirates in home runs (11), RBIs (42), and OPS (1.188). For North Central, Chris Hunter went 4-9 while scoring 4 runs and driving in 2.
The Pirates next action will be a road matchup in Parkville, MO with the Park University JV on Wednesday.
The Lady Pirates softball team ran into a juggernaut on the road on Friday afternoon, suffering a doubleheader sweep at the hands of the once-beaten, nationally ranked Crowder College Roughriders. Final scores were 5-1 and, in a five inning contest, 9-1.
NCMC split a doubleheader on Monday afternoon in Region XVI play at State Fair Community College in Sedalia, leaving the Lady Pirates season record at 27-16. In the opener, the North Central offense broke open a scoreless tie with a surge of scoring after the first time through the lineup, tallying two runs in the third inning, and three each in the 4th and 5th, in a decisive 9-1 win over the Roadrunners. Game 2 was a different story, with the Lady Pirates blowing a 4-0 lead after two innings, with SFCC scoring two runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to take the lead, and eventually win the game by a score of 5-4. Game statistics are not available for NCMC.
