MCC baseball quest struggles at Southeast

BEATRICE, Neb. — The McCook Community College baseball team lost a pair of games Sunday to Southeast Community College 3-2, and 11-9.

After losing its first 10 games of the season, Southeast CC extends its win streak to four games and improves 4-10 on the year.

MCC falls to 5-10.

The two teams will wrap up the three-game series today at 1 p.m.

GAME 1 – Southeast CC 3, McCook CC 2: Once again, the Indians got a strong series-opening pitching performance from freshman Isaac Vargas (Greeley, Colo.) who held Southeast off the scoreboard until the fourth inning when the Storm scored on a hit batter, a single, a passed ball and a sacrifice fly.

The Indians went six innings before denting the scoreboard on a leadoff walk by Justin Lucas (Las Vegas) and one out later a two-run home run by sophomore transfer JR Maldonado, (Las Vegas).

GAME 2 – Southeast CC 11, McCook CC 9: The Indians came out with a two-run first. Sophomore Ricardo Jimenez, (Hialeah, Fla.) led off the game with a double. After a hit batsman on a groundball out advanced runners to second and third, a Storm error led to a 2-0 MCC lead.

Southeast responded scoring six runs in the bottom of the inning off Indian starter, Shawn Hickey (Summerville, New Brunswick), who lasted just five batters.