CONCORDIA — The road was unusually cruel for Allen Community College Thursday.
The Red Devils were on the short end of a pair of walk-off victories — both scoring with two outs — for Cloud Community College.
That came after Allen rallied to knot the score in the top of the seventh in both games.
An outfield error on a pop fly allowed the T Birds to score with two outs in extra innings of game one to prevail, 8-7.
Then, a ground ball single through the right side allowed Cloud to drive in a runner from second base for the winning run in a 6-5 T Bird victory in the nightcap.
The opener was a wild, back-and-forth affair that saw the lead change three times in the first six innings before the Red Devils knotted the score in the top of the seventh on Lacey Stamper’s RBI single.
Alas, Cloud delivered a single to lead off the eighth inning, an error put runners on first and second, leading to the game-deciding error to wrap up the contest.
Stamper’s leadoff single was followed by a double by Hailee Lundine and an RBI grounder by Mikayla Long. But Allen came up empty after loading the bases from there, and the T Birds promptly took a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the inning.
Haley Gedrose tied it with an RBI double in the second, and Lundine’s RBI single pushed theRed Devils back on top, 3-2.
Those two then extended ACC’s advantage to 52 with Gedrose’s RBI single and a run-scoring double by Lundine.
But a bases-clearing, two-out triple by Cloud evened the score in the fifth, and the T Birds scored twice more in the sixth to take a 7-5 lead.
Bella Gravatt singled with one out in the seventh, moved to second when Morgan Baska was hit and then advanced to third on a ground ball. Gravatt stole home as part of a double-steal before Stamper’s line drive to left drove home Aubrey Willis.
Carissa Knight and Chloe Rogers shared pitching duties. Knight pitched into the fifth inning, allowing six hits and walking four. Rogers pitched three innings, allowing three hits and a walk, with two strikeouts.
Lundine doubled twice and singled in three at bats. Gedrose singled and doubled. Stamper and Brown both had a pair of singles. Long, Kinsey Stuewe, Gravatt, Baska and Jaydee Pulliam all had singles.
Stamper’s leadoff double in game two gave ACC an early lift after scoring on a Gedrose sac fly.
But Cloud responded with two in the first and third innings and one in the fourth to take a 5-1 lead.
