No taming the Tigers
Cowley County wins second straight juco title
Posted: Thursday June 11, 1998 02:24 PM
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Tiger trap: Charlie Thames of San Jacinto College North (left) is tagged by Steve Goodson of Cowley County Communtiy College (AP) |
GRAND JUNCTION, Colorado (CNN/SI) -- San Jacinto, Texas, knows all
about back-to-back junior college baseball championships. The Gators just
aren't used to watching other teams win them. Fueled by a six-run
sixth inning, Cowley County, Kansas, locked up its second straight National
Junior College Baseball World Series with a 15-11 victory Saturday night
over San Jacinto. Cowley County (54-9) became the first team to
successfully defend the title since San Jacinto did it in 1990, when the
Gators won for the fifth time in six years. The Tigers sent 11
batters to the plate during its fifth-inning outburst, scoring three runs
after two outs. The big hits were two-run doubles by Jeff Spitler and Sam
Scott. San Jacinto scored three runs in the first on a
sacrifice fly by Jeff Wagner and a two-run single by Domonique Lewis. The
Gators then took a 4-0 lead in the second on Matt Trenck's sacrifice fly.
Cowley County cut the lead to 4-2 in the bottom of the second
on a run-scoring triple by Steve Goodson, who then scored on a double by
Roy York. Jason Gray's leadoff homer in the third put San
Jacinto ahead 5-2 before Cowley County tied the game in the bottom of the
inning on a two-run homer by Brad Smith and York's second RBI double of the
game. Cowley County went ahead 6-5 in the fourth, but San
Jacinto rallied with a three-run fifth on run-scoring hits by Todd Ferraro,
Lewis and Mike
Busby to take the lead 8-6. Cowley came back with its six
runs in the bottom of the fifth to go ahead 12-8. San Jacinto
countered with J.P. Woodward's RBI single in the sixth and Trenck's two-run
homer in the eighth to cut the deficit to 12-11. Cowley County
added insurance runs in the bottom of the eighth with a two-out, RBI double
from Casey Eckstein and a two-run double by Josh McMillen, the tournament
MVP.
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