CHANUTE Allen baseball started off their conference slate full steam ahead after winning three of four games versus rival Neosho County.
Due to weather and field conditions, all four games were played in Chanute.
The Red Devils split the first two games on Thursday with a 6-5 loss and a 6-3 win before turning around and winning both games on Friday 4-3 and 10-2.
The wins move the Red Devils to 5-3 overall so far this season and 3-1 in KJCCC play.
In game one, both teams went into the fifth inning tied at one-a-piece when the Red Devils put up three runs in the top of the fifth.
Neosho responded with two runs in the bottom of the inning and tied things up at four with a run in the bottom of the sixth.
Allen scored a key seventh-inning run to take a 5-4 lead before Neosho walked off in the bottom of the inning with a two-run home run to end the game.
Centerfielder Lucas McCain and first baseman Caleb Piechnick each had two hits in the ball game. Reliever KJ McCrea got saddled with the loss after 1.1 innings worth of work. He allowed two home runs and three earned runs.
Fortunes changed in game two with starter Drew Young giving the Red Devils a solid six-inning performance with two runs allowed and nine strikeouts.
Reliever Nate Postlethwait got his first win of the season after pitching the final three innings while giving up just one unearned run while striking out four.
Both teams were tied up at two after two innings. Allenscored a run in the top of the eighth and in the bottom of the ninth and Neosho scored the tying run to force extra innings.
Allens bats then heated up, driving across three and allowing Postlethwait to throw a scoreless bottom of the 10th to end the game.
Right fielder Brayden Whitchurch, second baseman Baxter Mays and left fielder Justus Burke each had three hits. Whitchurch had two doubles and an RBI and Burke had two doubles. Lee Musgraves had three RBIs.
The Red Devils winning ways continued into Friday.
After trailing 3-0 heading into the bottom of the sixth inning of game one, the Red Devils drove in three to tie things up.
Allen drove in the winning run in the bottom of the seventh to take the 2-1 series advantage.
