MCC softball team splits on road at Central

COLUMBUS, Neb. – The McCook Community College softball team split a pair of games against Central Community College Wednesday, winning the first game 2-1, and losing the second game 10-2 in five innings.

“We didn’t have that same fire we had this past weekend against Trinidad,” said MCC Coach Mike Mendenhall. “We tend to do that during our non-Region IX conference games. We need to keep that same intensity.”

Freshman Ella Covill-Marter (Queensland, Australia) picked up the complete game win in Game 1 striking out 12 hitters.

“Ella did a nice job and Graci did an excellent job calling pitches,” said Mendenhall of his battery of Covill-Marter and freshman catcher Graci Nelson, McCook.

In Game 2, Central scored three times in the first and never trailed, taking leads of 3-0, 5-0 and 7-1 before scoring three times in the fifth to end the game on the eight-run rule.

Central goes to 28-15 and 9-3 to clinch the Nebraska Community College Athletic Conference.

MCC goes to 6-4 in the NCCAC and is in second place.

On Friday MCC will conclude NCCAC play and its home schedule with a doubleheader against North Platte starting at 2 p.m. on Purple Out Day. Fans are encouraged to wear purple in support of epilepsy awareness. Five MCC sophomores will also be honored.

MCC will wrap up the Region IX Division I schedule this weekend with five games at Scottsbluff against Western Nebraska with doubleheaders Saturday and Sunday at 1 p.m. and a single game Monday at 1 p.m. For all the up-to-date information on MCC softball this season including up-to-date scheduling changes, statistics, rosters and photos, please visit mccindians.com.