Feb. 27, 2007

The Northeastern Junior College baseball team split a doubleheader at No. 17 Seward County on Monday to improve to 4-2 on the season.

The Plainsmen dropped the first game, 5-3, as right-hander Jesus Colon pitched well but picked up his first loss. Colon left the game in the bottom of the fifth inning, and Las Vegas, Nev.; freshman Sam Feiner finished the final inning and two thirds.

Danny Brock led the Plainsmen at the plate with a 2-for-3 performance. Brock tripled in the fourth, then scored on a Gus Velazquez single. Brock's two-RBI double in the fifth brought put NJC on top, 3-2 before Seward scored three in the bottom of the sixth to win it.

John Matey was 2-for-4 for NJC, scoring the go-ahead run in the fifth on Brock's double.

NJC took the second game, 5-3, behind the pitching of freshmen Arvin Perez and Colton Williams. Perez, a right-hander from Ponce, Puerto Rico; threw five complete innings, surrendering just three runs. Williams, a mid-semester addition to the roster from Phoenix, Ariz; recorded his first save with two perfect innings of work in relief of Perez.

Feiner knocked in the winning runs in the top of the sixth with a pinch-hit single that scored Brock and Curtis Burback. Velazquez scored on a Langston Frison's groundout to seal the deal for NJC.

Burback led NJC's offense in the second game, going 2-for-3 with a stolen base. The freshman second baseman from Denver also scored two runs in the contest.