A pair of well-pitched games, some timely hitting with runners on base, and even some softball power propelled Allen Community College to a doubleheader sweep Wednesday.
Allen’s Madelynn Collins tossed a one-hit shutout while kickstarting the Red Devil offense with a two-run double in an 8-0 win in the opener.
Mikayla Long’s long ball in the nightcap — a third-inning, two-run home run — gave ACC the lead for good in the 6-4 victory.
“We played collectively as a team, and it showed,” Red Devil head coach Nicole Peters said. “It was an all-around good day for our team as a whole. We had people coming in off the bench and doing what they needed to do.”
Collins set the tone, allowing a leadoff single to start the game, but nothing after that. She struck out four, walked one and retired 15 of the 17 batters she faced. She allowed no Red Raven baserunners to advance beyond first.
“She did well,” Peters said.
Collins and Lacey Stamper kickstarted the Red Devil offense with each smacking a two-run double to give ACC a 4-0 lead.
Two more ACC runs came on a pair of Coffeyville errors in the third before Bella Gravatt’s RBI single made it 7-0.
Hailee Lundine drove in the final run with a fourth-inning double.
Long had a single and double to pace the offense. Stamper, Lundine, Collins and Ellie Hacker added doubles. Haley Gedrose and Gravatt had singles.
CHLOE Rogers toed the pitching rubber in Game 1, and like Collins before her, gave ACC its first run of the game with an RBI single in the second, but consecutive strikeouts with the bases loaded ended Allen’s scoring threat.
The lost opportunity loomed large when Coffeyville’s Joslyn Arrington broke a 1-1 tie with a solo home run in the top of the third.
Long made sure it didn’t matter.
Gedrose was on second base after a leadoff single in the bottom of the third before Long blasted the first pitch she saw over the left field wall — her team-leading fourth home run — to push ACC on top, 3-2.
The Red Devils never trailed again.
An error in the bottom of the fourth preceded Stamper’s RBI double. Gedrose followed with an RBI grounder to make it 5-2.
Coffeyville made things interesting in the sixth after Madison Tadrus hit a bases-loaded single to take back two runs out of Allen’s lead.
But Rogers ended the threat with runners on the corners by inducing a soft line drive back to her for the third out.
Pinch hitter Olivia Garvey led off ACC’s half of the sixth by getting hit by a pitch. Morgan Baska singled her to second and Stamper’s single loaded the bases.
