Sower sports roundup, Feb. 28
By Maddy Peters, Sports Editor
If you missed Concordia University Nebraska sports this week, here is what happened.
Baseball finished an incredible series against Culver-Stockton College over the weekend in Fort Scott, Kan. outscoring the Wildcats 67-13 between the four games. The team is now 8-3 for the season. They next travel to Florida over spring break to compete in three invites.
Junior Jaiden Quinn was by far the leader for the Bulldogs this past week. He hit 13-18 for a whopping .722 batting average, had seven of the 18 homers and finished with 15 RBIs. He moved up to third on the career home run record and is the third Bulldog to achieve 50 career home runs.
Quinn was also named the Great Plains Athletic Conference Baseball Player of the Week, the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Baseball Player of the Week and NAIA Ball’s Player of the week. The team as a whole was named NAIA Ball’s Team of the Week for going 6-0 against Kansas Wesleyan University and Culver-Stockton.
Senior Joey Grabanski managed to get in on the fun in Fort Scott with one homer. Fellow senior Jay Adams had two over the weekend. Freshman Matthew Rhoades continued to impress with four homers, one for each game, another senior, Bradley Hallock had three homers and junior Tanner Tompkins hit two, his first of the season.
Senior Blake Benson was the pitcher with the win for the first game that went 23-6 for the Dawgs. He had nine hits for five runs, nine strikeouts, and recorded four errors. Junior Christian Gutierrez was the winning pitcher for the second game that went 17-2 with a stat spread of four hits for two runs, eight strikeouts and recorded one error.
Junior Qwin Zabokrtsky was the winning pitcher of the third game which went 15-4 going 10 hits for four runs, two strikeouts and recorded four errors. Finally, sophomore Ernie Snyder was the fourth winning pitcher for Concordia in the final 12-1 game against Culver-Stockton. He went three hits for one run, zero strikeouts and recorded one error.
The softball team, meanwhile, traveled to Atchison, Kan. to play the Benedictine College Ravens again. They lost both games, going 4-0 in the first and 6-3 in the second. The team is now 2-8 for the season. The team also travels south for spring break making a stop in Kansas for the Friends University Invitational before going to Tucson, Ariz. for another invitational.
The Bulldogs made four hits against the Ravens in their first game. Benedictine’s pitcher, Bailey Selvage, was brutally efficient making for short innings, and few errors. Selvage had 14 strikeouts against Concordia in the first game. Junior Megan Eurich was the pitcher credited with the loss going five hits for four runs, six strikeouts and recorded four errors.
Freshmen Madison Cushing and Laycee Josoff and junior Jennifer Katz scored the three runs for Concordia in the second game. Cushing and Josoff scored off a double from junior Aubrey Bruning and Katz scored from a sacrifice fly by sophomore Montgomery Berner. Freshman Kaylei Denison was the pitcher credited with the loss, going seven hits for six runs, one strikeout and six errors.
