Two Colfax power innings stop NWC

The Colfax High School baseball team booked their first NE sweep of the season Tuesday when they tooktwo come-from–behind wins over Northwest Chrisian. The Bulldogs won the first game 8-6, and the second game 12-7.

The pair of league wins leaves Colfax at 4-2 in the league race with the Davenport Gorillas visiting Saturday for another league double.

Brady Ellis again pitched the opener. He allowed NWC seven hits, struck out six and walked zero.

Colfax trailed 2-5 before erupting for six runs in the sixth inning. Brock Morgan, who broke up a no-hitter with a rap in the fifth, tagged a two–run hit in the sixth, and Ellis followed with another two-run rap.

Other hitters for Colfax in the first game were Dylan Heiser, Patrick Jacobs and Mark Webber.

Lefty Patrick Jacobs went the distance in the second game and picked up the 12-10 enduro win. The game featured a combined 13 errors.

Jacobs allowed eight hits and fanned eight batters.

Colfax pulled out the win with a nine-run charge in the fourth inning. Webber, Jacobs and Burke all had two-run hits and three errors by the green club accounted for more runs.

NWC catcher Scotty Miller had three of the eight Crusader hits in the second game.

Tuesday’s sweep at McDonald followed split Saturday at Reardan in a test of the elements.

Ellis allowed just four hits in the 9-4 win over the Indians in the first game while the Bulldog bats came up with 10 hits led by a homer by Brent Becker and a triple by Jacobs.

Reardan took a 6-5 win in the second game after sending the game into an extra inning. Colfax had a 5-4 lead with two out in the bottom of the seventh, but Reardan bounced back to score a run and send it into the extra inning lon a 5-5 tie. when They scklred on a Colfax error for the 6-5 win in the eighth. .

Garrett Burke relieved Jacobs on the mound in the third innings and turned in five strong frames before the game went off the tracks for Colfax.