DRAGONS WIN SERIES OPENER OVER RED DEVILS
Hutchinson CC Sports Information
Anthony Mazza posted his eighth three-hit game of the season to awaken a slumbering Hutchinson Community College baseball team offense Wednesday night at Hobart-Detter Field.
Mazza sparked the Blue Dragons, who scored a combined nine runs in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings after not getting a hit through the first three innings, to defeat the Allen Red Devils 9-3 in Game 1 of their Region 6 (Plains District) Tournament opening-round series.
The Blue Dragons (38-19) lead the best-of-3 series 1-0. Game 2 against the Red Devils (16-32) will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at Hobart-Detter Field.
BLUE DRAGON BASEBALL
Hutchinson (38-19) vs. Allen (16-32)
Region 6 Tournament Opening Round Series Game 1 (Hutchinson leads series 1-0)
When: Thurday, May 8, 2025
Where: Hobart-Detter Field, Hutchinson, KS
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Admission: Free
Video: Blue Dragon Sports Network, 12:50 p.m.
X: @bluedragonsport
Hutchinson has now won 21 consecutive games over the Red Devils dating back to the 1995 season opener.
Trailing 1-0 after three innings, Mazza singled to lead off the fourth inning. Two batters later, Quinn Maher singled home Mazza to tie the game at 1-1. Scotty Fegen reached on the second Allen error of the inning to score Nick Glantz for a 2-1 lead. Leo Griffin followed with a perfectly executed safety squeeze to score Maher. Cael Hamrick became the fourth-straight Blue Dragon batter in the inning to drive in a run with an RBI single to center to score Fegen for a 4-3 Hutchinson lead.
Allen scored two runs in the top of the fifth to pull within 4-3, but the Blue Dragons answered back with a three-run fifth inning. Mazza doubled home C.J. Reid from first base. Glantz had an RBI single and Fegen had a sacrifice fly to center to complete a three-run inning for a 7-3 Dragon lead.
Mazza then tripled into the right-field corner that scored Reid in the sixth inning. Mazza then scored to make it 9-3 on an A.J. Mustow sacrifice fly.
Not getting their first hit until the fourth inning, the Blue Dragons outscored Allen 10-6. The Blue Dragons were also 7 of 8 in stolen bases with Glantz, Fegen and Maher stealing two bases each. This is the fourth time this season the Blue Dragons have had at least seven stolen bases in a single game.
Mazza went 3 for 5 with a double, triple, three runs scored and two RBIs.
Reid was 2 for 4 with two runs scored. Fegen was 1 for 2 with a double and two RBIs.
Freshman Lachlan Rosser (6-4) earned the pitching win with 5 1-3 innings. He allowed five hits and three earned runs with five strikeouts and three walks. With a run already in and bases loaded with no outs in the fifth, Rosser induced a 5-4-3 double play that produced a run and got a groundout to get out of the jam with the Dragons leading 4-3.
With one out in the sixth and a runner on base, Sean Combs entered the game for the Dragons and coaxed an inning-ending double play. Combs retired all seven batters he faced with two strikeouts. Brand Phillips tossed a scoreless ninth with a strikeout.
The Blue Dragons are now 12-4 in Game one's of Region 6 Opening-round series.