No. 1 Coyotes win Cisco series

The Weatherford College baseball team took three of four games from Cisco College in a Spring Break series Wednesday at Roger Williams Ballpark and Saturday in Cisco.

The No. 1 Coyotes improved to 24-5 overall and 9-3 in conference play. The series win was the third in a row in conference play for WC, all by a three-games-to-one margin.

In game one Wednesday, back-to-back home runs from Trace Mazon and J.C. Davis helped lead the Coyotes to victory. WC pushed three runs across the plate in the third inning and seven more in the fourth, winning via the run-rule, 10-0.

Evan Brandt (7-1) earned his nation-leading seventh win, collecting four strikeouts, one walk and three hits in five innings.

Game two was a windy matchup. The Coyotes put up an early lead, with one run in the first inning and four in the second. 

Cisco had one run in the top of the third, but the tides shifted when the Wranglers' Gage Kooyers hit a grand slam, tying it up at 5-5. WC briefly took the lead back in the fourth on an RBI from Manny Salas. But Cisco added a two-run homer in the six and won 11-6.

In Cisco Saturday, WC took care of the Wranglers with 12-4 and 10-1 wins.

Mazon hit two home runs in game three, knocking in four RBI. Caden Mitchell added three RBI on a 3-for-4 performance.

Trent Collier earned the win by scattering four hits over seven innings, allowing no earned runs and no walks while striking out 10. Collier had first pitch strikes on 19 of 20 batters, and never got to ball three on an opponent.

In the final game of the series, WC broke the game open with eight runs in the top of the eighth inning. Caden Byrd hit a home run on a 3-for-4 appearance and both Byrd and Jax Marshall turned in two RBI.

Dylan Russo allowed only two hits in six innings, with one earned run, two walks and four strikeouts.

WC is now tied with Grayson College at the top of the Northern Texas Junior College Athletic Conference standings. The Coyotes and Vikings will face each other this week, beginning with a noon doubleheader at Williams Ballpark Wednesday, March 26 and another doubleheader Saturday in Denison.