Kirkwood Baseball

KCC baseball team slugs Ellsworth again

IOWA FALLS - The Kirkwood baseball team pounded Ellsworth, 8-2 and 18-6, in a conference doubleheader in Iowa Falls Tuesday.

The Eagles also belted Ellsworth in a twinbill Monday, 16-1 and 9-0, putting the composite score for the four-game series at 51-9.

Tyler Bordner belted two home runs and drove in three runs in the 8-2 victory in the opener. Ellison Hanna also hit a home run and drove in  two runs. Korry Howell had two hits and two RBIs.

Bordner, Howell and Lorenzo Elion hit home runs in the 18-6 victory in the nightcap. Elion was 3-for-4 and drove in four runs. Howell was  3-for-5 with three RBIs and four runs.

Bordner drove in three runs in the second game. Cal Clark went 3-for-5 and scored twice. General McArthur had two hits and Colin Kreiter drove in two runs.

Kirkwood raised its records to 18-7 overall and 4-0 in the conference. Ellsworth fell to 2-24 and 0-4.

GAME 1

Kirkwood     003 320 0 - 8 9 1
Ellsworth    000 000 2 - 2 9 1

GAME 2

Kirkwood     030 034 8 - 18 16 1
Ellsworth    110 301 0 - 6 9 4

KCC baseball team pounds Ellsworth

IOWA FALLS - The Kirkwood baseball team flexed its muscles Monday and belted Ellsworth, 16-1 and 9-0, in an ICCAC conference doubleheader in Iowa Falls.

The Eagles raised their records to 16-7 overall and 2-0 in the league in their conference openers.

Korry Howell drove in four runs in the 16-1 onslaught in the opener, which lasted only five innings due to the mercy rule. Kirkwood scored seven runs in the first inning and added seven more runs in the fourth.

Colin Kreiter collected three RBIs in the first game. Ellison Hanna, Tyler Bordner and Toran Shahidi had two RBIs. Shahidi had two hits and scored three times. Cal Clark also had two hits.

Austin Miller pitched four strong innings for the victory in Game 1. He allowed three hits and one unearned run, with five strikeouts and two walks.

Kreiter went 3-for-5 with a home run and three RBIs in the 9-0 victory in the nightcap. Hanna went 2-for-4 and drove in two runs. Howell, Bordner, Shahidi and Clark had two hits.

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Kirkwood baseball team sweeps Marshalltown

MARSHALLTOWN - The Kirkwood baseball team swept a doubleheader from Marshalltown, 11-5 and 2-0, in non-conference games in Marshalltown Wednesday.

The sweep lifted the Eagles to 14-7 for the season.

General McArthur drove in three runs and scored three times in the 11-5 victory. Colin Kreiter and Lorenzo Elion had two RBIs.

Brody Alberts sparkled in relief for Kirkwood in the 2-0 victory in the nightcap. Alberts tossed five shutout innings, with seven  strikeouts, no walks and only three hits.

Korry Howell had two hits for the Eagles in the second game.

GAME 1

Kirkwood        233 001 2 - 11 6 1
Marshalltown    002 300 0 - 5 10 2

GAME 2

Kirkwood        000 001 1 - 2 6 0
Marshalltown    000 000 0 - 0 5 3

Kirkwood baseball goes 7-4 in Florida

VERO BEACH, Fla. - The 17th-ranked Kirkwood baseball team split a doubleheader with UConn-Avery Point Friday and finished with a 7-4 record on its spring trip to Florida.

The Eagles won the first game, 13-9, and were trimmed in the second contest, 5-4.

General McArthur had a big game for Kirkwood in the opener. He went 3-for-5 with two home runs, four RBIs and three runs scored. Korry Howell also belted a home run and scored four times.

Lorenzo Elion was 4-for-5 with three RBIs in the first game. Colin Kreiter and Ross Kramer had two hits and Kreiter had two RBIs.

Kirkwood scored four runs in the bottom of the sixth inning of the second game to take a 4-3 lead, but UConn-Avery Point scored twice in the top of the seventh for the 5-4 victory.

Kramer went 2-for-3 with a home run and three RBIs in the second game.

Kreiter had two more hits.

Kirkwood will be returning from Florida with a 12-7 overall record.

GAME 1

Kirkwood            330 250 0 - 13 14 1
UConn-Avery Point   203 100 3 - 9 12 2

W - Long. L - Vincent.

GAME 2

UConn-Avery Point    100 011 2 - 5 9 0
Kirkwood             000 004 0 - 4 7 0

W - Leindecker. L - Verstegen.