OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - The Kirkwood baseball team split a doubleheader with Johnson County Community College Sunday.
The Eagles won the first game, 9-4, in eight innings. Johnson County took the nightcap, 4-3.
Kirkwood (2-2) and Johnson County (8-3) split the four-game series in Kansas. Johnson County is ranked No. 17 in NJCAA Division I. Kirkwood is not ranked in Division II.
The first game was tied, 4-4, after seven innings. The Eagles plated five runs in the top of the eighth for the victory.
Kaden Wadle pitched 2 1/3 shutout innings for the Eagles in the opener and got the victory in relief.
Izaya Fullard went 2-for-5 in the first game and scored a pair of runs. Kal Youngquist and Max McCay drove in two runs. Ellison Hanna scored twice.
Youngquist went 2-for-3 with a double, home run and two RBIs for Kirkwood in the second game. Cal Stalzer surrendered only two earned runs in 5 1/3 innings but took the loss.
Fullard, a freshman from Iowa City West, went 7-for-15 in the four game series with a home run, six RBIs and .467 batting average.
GAME 1
Kirkwood 000 004 05 - 9 8 1
Johnson County 001 003 00 - 4 12 1
W - Wadle
GAME 2
Kirkwood 000 200 1 - 3 6 2
Johnson County 100 201 x - 4 6 0
W - Ernsdorff. L - Stalzer.
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