Greyhounds split at Johnson County

OVERLAND PARK -- Fort Scott Community College's baseball team moved into a third-place tie in the Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division after splitting a conference doubleheader against Johnson County here Tuesday.

The Greyhounds are now 9-7 in the East and 17-14 overall. They're tied for third with Kansas City Kansas (15-8 overall). Both teams are ahead of Independence and Allen County, both 10-8 in the division, on percentage points (.563 to .555).

Kansas City also moved up while simultaneously forcing Allen County to go down when the Blue Devils swept a conference doubleheader, 3-2 and 5-3, from Allen on Tuesday. Independence did not play Tuesday, its twinbill with last-place Labette postponed due to wet grounds in Parsons.

Today's games have Fort Scott playing a key doubleheader at Allen County, KCK visiting Neosho County and Independence taking on rival Coffeyville.

The Greyhounds snapped a three-game losing streak -- in fact, they had lost four of their last five games -- when they beat second-place Johnson County (14-6, 19-11) in game two of the doubleheader. They led 3-1 after one inning and 4-2 after two.

Chris Miles was the winning pitcher for the 'Hounds, allowing one earned run on five hits and two walks while striking out one in the first five innings. Garret Woerman earned his first save of the season, allowing one hit and one walk in the final two innings.

Ryan Daniel had two hits for the Greyhounds, driving in two runs. Trevor Geist scored twice.

Johnson County scored seven runs in the first two innings of the opener and held on as Dustin Holthaus hurled a complete-game. He allowed six hits and three walks while striking out five.

Andrew Minnich had two hits for the Greyhounds.

Fort Scott........010 020 0 -- 4 6 1

Johnson County. 250 000 x -- 7 8 2

WP -- Holthaus. LP -- Daniel.

HR -- none.

Fort Scott........301 000 0 -- 4 5 3

Johnson County. 101 100 0 -- 3 6 0

WP -- Miles. LP -- Holtgrieve. Sv. -- Woerman.

HR -- Fort Scott: Geist.