By: Justin Hargrove, Assistant Athletic Director
Northeast Texas Community College hosted Bossier Parish Community College in a single nine inning conference game on Thursday. BPCC took an early lead and NTCC was not able to overcome the early deficit despite a valiant comeback attempt. Bossier Parish won the close contest 10-9 to take an early series lead.
Mikel Howell (Huntsville HS) would get the start for NTCC and would go three and one third innings before giving way to Chase Richter (Cypress Woods HS) who would pitch three innings, striking out three. Chance Bolter (Plano HS) was solid in his two and two thirds inning of work giving up no runs, just one hit and two strikeouts.
NTCC started out in the hole when BPCC scored one run in the first and four runs in the second to take an early 4-0 lead. The Eagle offense answered back in the third and cut the lead to 4-3 when Bryce Yosko (Spring HS) singled to start the inning. Cole Modgling (Medina Valley HS) followed that single with a walk and the Eagles would load the bases when Luke McBride (Nashville, AR HS) singled to left. A bases loaded walk would plate the first Eagle run followed by two more runs when Nico Baumbach would double to bring in two RBI’s.
The Eagles would tie the game at 5-5 when they added two runs in the fourth inning, but unfortunately Bossier would answer right back in the fifth with another four run inning to extend the lead to 9-5. Bossier would at the tenth and final run in the six inning while NTCC continued to chip away at the lead by BPCC.
Despite scoring runs in the sixth, seventh and two in the eighth inning the Eagle comeback attempt would fall short by one run, 10-9.
NTCC will travel to Bossier Parrish for a double header on Saturday, March 13th. The Eagles will have a non-conference game at Grayson College on Monday followed by a home conference game against Paris on Thursday during a busy Spring Break week for NTCC.
Keep up to date with NTCC schedules by visiting our updated website, www.ntcceagles.com.
