The Western Nebraska Community College baseball team earned a split with Northeast Community College on Wednesday.
Cameryn Spence went four strong innings and combined with three other pitchers to allow four hits and three runs as the Cougars won the opener, 4-3.
Northeast pitchers combined for a one-hitter in the second game as the Hawks captured the 7-1 win.
WNCC (8-6) heads to Arizona on Saturday for its Spring Break trip. The Cougars face Mesa Community College on Monday.
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Both games Wednesday were defensive contests in contrast to last year when WNCC went to Norfolk and fell to Northeast 13-3 and 14-4.
Northeast started the first game off when Carter Noakes lead-off with a solo home run.
WNCC answered in the first as Matt Levesque led off with a walk followed by Vaughn Wilson reaching on an error. Levesque scored on Cooper Wilson’s grounder to tie the game 1-1.
The Cougars then scored twice in the second to take the lead, and then added one in the third.
Northeast closed to within 4-3 with two runs in the six.
Spence got the win with four innings of work while allowing a run with three hits and two strikeouts. Austin Neeley then threw an inning with one strikeout followed by Zane Hendrickx,.
Carter Reisig tossed the seventh for the save as he allowed just a hit.
Two Northeast pitchers controlled the second game as the Hawks were four outs from a no-hitter. The duo combined for 10 strikeouts in the win
Northeast took control of the game early with two runs in the first and thren three more in the second to build a 5-0 lead. The Hawks added single runs in the fourth and fifth to lead 7-0.
WNCC got its first base runner in the third when Landon Lockwood led off with a walk, but that was all the Cougars could manage
Austin Cooper earned a two-out walk and then scored as Vaughn Wilson got the team’s first hit, a double to right centerfield.
Kensei Oikawa walked to lead off the seven, but the Hawks recorded three outs in order
