Indians finish road trip in triumph

BEATRICE, Neb. — The McCook Community College baseball team salvaged the final game of a three-game series against Southeast Community College Monday, 7-5. The Storm won the first two games of the series 3-2, and 11-9.

“It was good to get back on the winning side of things,” MCC coach Jon Olsen said. “Getting walked off in the bottom of the 7th was a tough one to swallow yesterday, and then losing game two as well.”

On Monday, the two teams matched scores through the first four innings.

A pair of two-out Southeast errors opened the door for MCC in the first and Justin Lucas (Las Vegas) capitalized with an RBI-single to leftfield. A walk and a McCook error in the bottom of the frame led to a Southeast run to tie the game 1-1.

The Indians took a 2-1 lead in the fourth with two outs on a Julio Seperich (Las Vegas) home run. Ricardo Jimenez, (Hialeah, Fla.) and Tyler Clark-Chiapparelli, (Austin, Texas) followed with a double and a single to make it a 3-1 MCC lead, but the Storm tied the game in the bottom of the inning with a couple two-out walks and a double.

MCC came right back leading off the fifth inning with a walk, a Lucas single, and a Storm error to put the Indians back on top 4-3. Lucas later scored on a wild pitch to put McCook up 5-3.

Clark-Chiapparelli doubled to lead off the MCC sixth and later came home on a Southeast error to make it a 6-3 game.

Braden Babcock picked up the win on the mound pitching six innings, allowing four hits, three earned runs and four walks.

“I thought we responded very well today, we got a nice performance on the mound today and came up with some timely hits.

Southeast was charged with four errors in the game leading to three unearned runs. A

McCook error in the seventh lead to an unearned Southeast run to cut the gap to 6-4.

MCC added its final run in the ninth inning on a Trevor Pacheco (Pueblo, Colo.) leadoff walk, a single by Kaleb Wroot (North Platte), and a sacrifice fly from Beau Hawley (Greeley, Colo.)

Clark-Chiapparelli pitched the final three frames, picking up the save allowing one hit, three walks, one earned run and four strikeouts.

The Indians got two-hit games from Jiminez, Clark-Chiapparelli, Lucas and Seperich.

“We are getting there, we just need to keep playing,” Olsen said