Broncbusters lose game two to Barton

Garden City, KS-Ayden Hadley drove in four runs, Anthony Treto allowed only two hits over 6 1/3, and No. 24 Barton topped Garden City, 11-0 in eight innings in game two Thursday afternoon at Williams Stadium. 

The Cougars, which polished off a 25-run outburst during their two-game sweep in Garden City, won their 11^thstraight game to improve to 29-8 overall and 18-4 in league play. John Connors went 3-for-4 at the plate with two runs scored, and Hadley and Kyle Graves also recorded multi-hit games. 

Garden City, which saw their offense held in check for a second straight game, was held to just two hits, the first of which came on a pinch-hit double by Akoi Burton to lead off the fifth. Karson Evans provided the only other knock with a single to center in the sixth. 

Ayden Hadley got the scoring started for the Cougars in the second when he tripled off starter Alexander Paniagua. Connors followed with an RBI base hit, and it was 2-0 Barton. 

In the second, Graves smacked an RBI triple to deep right-center, Hadley smoked an extra base hit that cleared the bases, and Connors brought home a run with triple down the right-field line. Wyatt Yetter added a run-scoring single; then came around when Sage Hurley booted a ball at second. It was all part of a seven-run frame. 

It was the fourth straight game that Garden City allowed seven or more runs in a single inning. 

Besides a walk and a hit batsman in the second, Treto was magnificent. He issued a free pass to Sean Togher to begin the fourth but then got Cody Kilpatrick to bounce into a 6-4-3 inning-ending double play. He worked around (Akoi) Burton's leadoff double in the fifth and a walk to Riley Bowman by getting David Young to fly out to right before Sage Hurley popped out to second and Mason Tafoya struck out on a slider in the dirt. He was pulled with one out in the seventh after plunking Burton on the wrist with a fastball and walking Young. His final stat line: no runs on two hits and six strikeouts marking his second straight shutout performance coming off his 10-strikeout gem in a complete-game victory over Colby on April 3. 

Meantime his counterpart Paniagua was lit up to the tune of nine runs on nine hits in five innings for Garden City, which fell to 16-21 overall and 5-13 in conference.