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Iowa Central Dominates Pioneers in Doubleheader Sweep

Iowa Central Dominates Pioneers in Doubleheader Sweep
Posted: Mar 17, 2025

Game 1 - Pioneers 1 ... Iowa Central 8

The wind in Fort Dodge, Iowa was substantially blowing and had an adverse affect on the Pioneer baseball team on Monday afternoon. 

The Pioneers could not muster up much offense and the home team Iowa Central did enough at the plate to grind out a 8-1 win over the Pioneers in the 1st game of a 4-game series. 

The Pioneers got on the board in the first inning after Tanner Goertz (LF - Highlands Ranch, CO) was hit by a pitch and Lance Bratlien (RF - Helena, MT) collected the 1st of only 2 Pioneer hits with a double to put runners on 2nd and 3rd. Goertz scored on a sacrifice fly from Coleman Parry (1B - American Fork, UT).

Iowa Central tied the game at 1-1 in the bottom of the 1st and then took command of the contest with 3 runs in the 2nd inning and 3 more in the 3rd inning. The Tritons picked up their final run of the game in the bottom of the 5th. 

The only other Pioneer hit was a single by Brady Bickett (CF - Rapid City, SD) but Bickett was quickly caught stealing 2nd and MCC would not have any offense after that. 

Chase Goode (Castle Rock, CO) got the start for MCC and pitched 2.2 innings (4 H, 7 R, 6 ER, 4 BB, 2 SO) and was relieved by Lee Neugebauer (Rapid City, SD) for the next 3.1 innings (2 H, R, BB, 4 SO)

Inside the Box Score

  • The Pioneers had only 2 hits in the game. ICCC had 6 hits (2 HR, 2B).
  • MCC batters struck out 9 times and walked twice. 
  • ICCC batters struck out 6 times and walked 5 times. 
  • The Pioneers had the only error of the game.
  • MCC had one stolen base and the Tritons had 3.
  • Pioneer pitchers also hit 7 Triton batters. Triton pitchers hit 2 Pioneer batters. 

 

Game 2 - Pioneers 0 ... Iowa Central 17 (5 Innings)

Game 2 went much like game 1 on Monday afternoon as the Pioneer bats were cold and the Triton bats piled up the runs. 

Brandon Hegadus (C - Littleton, CO) picked up the only hit of the day for the Pioneers in the 1st inning as the Triton pitching staff silenced the MCC bats for the 2nd game. 

Iowa Central scored 5 runs in the 1st inning and then added 2 more in the 2nd inning to take a 7-0 lead. 7 more runs crossed home plate in the 3rd inning and a 3-run home run in the 4th inning (4th of the game for ICCC) put the icing on the cake for game 2. 

Trae Awbery (Miles City, MT) started on the mound for the Pioneers and pitched 2 innings (5 H, 7 R, BB, 2 SO). Eli Kelley (Rapid City, SD) pitched the 3rd inning (3 H, 7 R, 3 BB, SO) and AJ Truman (Eureka, MT) pitched the 4th inning (H, 3 R, BB, SO). 

Inside the Box Score

  • The Pioneers had just one single and Iowa Central had 9 hits (4 HR, 3 2B).
  • The Pioneers struck out 8 times and walked 5 times. Iowa Central struck out 5 times and walked 5 times. 
  • Pioneer pitchers hit 4 batters and Triton pitchers hit one batter. 
  • Neither team committed an error. 
  • Neither team had a stolen base. 

The Pioneers fall to 17-7 on the season and will play Iowa Central again tomorrow in a doubleheader beginning at 12:00 PM MDT.