Baseball wins conference title, advance in regionals
May 10, 2008

Luke Wempe
Online editor

The Seward County Community College baseball team won the Jayhawk West Conference regular season title after sweeping Pratt Community College, and Dodge City Community College.
The regular season title lands the Saints with a No. 1 seed from the Jayhawk West in the NJCAA Division I Region VI Baseball Tournament. The Saints end the regular season with a 38-16 record, and ranked No. 10 in the nation.
In the concluding games against Pratt and Dodge City, Freshman Austin Terhune pitched a one-hit complete-game shutout against Pratt and picked up a save in the regular season finale against Dodge City. His performance in those two games landed him the honor of RINGOR NJCAA Pitcher of the Week.
The No.1 seeding matched Seward County with the No. 8 seed from the Jayhawk East conference, Neosho County Community College (23-28).
After losing the first game of the best-of-three series 5-9, the Saints beat Neosho County 8-7, and 8-2.
Terhune pitched a nine-inning complete game to advance SCCC to the next round of regionals at Lawrence Dumont Stadium in Wichita. The Saints (40-17) will face Kansas City Kansas Community College (31-17), a team that SCCC has not played this year.
KCK enters the eight-team bracket as the Jayhawk East Conference No. 4 seed after beating Colby Community College, a team that the Saints split with in conference play.
SCCC will take on KCK in the double elimination tournament at 1p.m. Saturday, May 10. If the Saints win, they will advance to play the winner of Johnson County/Barton County at 4p.m. Sunday May 11. If the Saints lose, they will take on the loser of Johnson County/Barton County at 10 a.m. Sunday, May 11.