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Northeast CC Handles Pioneers on Wednesday

Northeast CC Handles Pioneers on Wednesday
Posted: Mar 18, 2026

Game 1 - Pioneers 0... Northeast CC 15 (5 Innings)

The long drive to Norfolk, NE seemed to stall the Pioneer baseball team for a game against the Northeast CC Hawks. The Pioneers were only able to muster up one hit and the Hawks hitters had a field day scoring 15 runs in just 4 innings. 

Liam Sullivan (CF - Great Falls, MT) connected on a single in the 1st inning for the Pioneers only hit of the game. 

Tanner Hagar (Casper, WY) got the start for MCC and pitched 3 innings (6 H, 8 R, 6 ER) before being replaced by Ryan Kelly (Miles City, MT) for the next 0.2 inning (4 H, 7 R, 2 ER, 4 BB, SO). Tyler Hutton (Sheridan, WY) struck out the only batter he faced. 

Inside the Box Score

  • Northeast had 10 hits (2 HR, 4 2B).
  • The Pioneer had 3 errors and the Hawks had 1. 
  • Northeast stole 2 bases. 
  • Pioneer batters struck out 5 times and walked twice. 
  • Northeast batter struck out twice, walked 4 times, and were hit by pitch 4 times. 

Game 2 - Pioneers 4... Northeast CC 7

Game 2 was much more competitive that game 1 but the result was the same as the Hawks swept the Pioneers on Wednesday. 

After getting only one hit in game 1 and being held scoreless, the Pioneers struck for 3 runs in the top of the 1st to take a 3-0 lead. Chase Carnahan (2B - Fallon, NV) led the game off with a single. With one out, Chance Descalchuk (1B - Regina, Saskatchewan) followed with a single to put runners on the corners. Ethan Forrest (LF - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) came up with a RBI single and Holden Christensen (C - Casper, WY) made it 4 singles in the inning driving in Descalchuk. Chaise Tracy (3B - Billings, MT) drove in the final run of the inning with another single. 

Northeast scored a run in the bottomof the 1st and took the lead in the 2nd with 1 more run. They added 2 in the 3rd inning before the Pioneers cut the lead to 6-4 with a sacrifice fly RBI from Carnahan. The Hawks got an insurance run in the bottom of the 4th and neither team scored the rest of the way. 

Desculchuk had 3 hits in the game and Tracy had 2. 

Lee Neugebauer (Rapid City, SD) got the start in game 2 and pitched 5 innings (9 H, 7 R, 6 ER, SO). Fellow Rapid City native Eli Kelley pitched the 6th inning (H, SO).

Inside the Box Score

  • MCC had 8 hits (2B) and the Hawks had 10 (3B, 4 2B).
  • MCC had the only 2 errors. 
  • Northeast had the games only stolen base. 
  • Pioneer batters struck out 8 times and walked 3 times. 
  • Northeast batters struck out twice.

The two teams will hook up Thursday for 2 more games starting at 10:00 AM MDT.