• Freshman Mitchell Cummins leads DMACC to a 5-4 win in the opener
• Bears drop nightcap, 6-1
• Teams will wrap up three-game series with a single game today

The DMACC baseball team split a doubleheader against Kirkwood Community College (KCC) March 24 at Cedar Rapids.

DMACC took the opener, 5-4, and KCC won the nightcap, 6-1. The third game of the series was originally scheduled for March 26 at Cedar Rapids but was moved to today because of inclement weather.

The split gives DMACC a 13-10 overall record and a 2-2 mark in the Iowa Community College Athletic Conference (ICCAC).

Freshman Mitchell Cummins of Chanhassen, Minn., had two hits and drove in two runs for the Bears in the first game. DMACC took control of the game with four runs in the second and added an insurance run in the fifth. KCC scored twice in the fifth and twice in the sixth.

Sophomore Gage Franck of Marion and freshman Camden Kaufman of Waukee accounted for DMACC's other hits in the win with a double and a single respectively and each drove in one run.

Sophomore Joe Husak of Cambridge improved to 5-1 with the win. He allowed four runs on four hits with nine strikeouts and five walks in five and a third innings. Freshmen Jai Jensen of Clinton and Zach Kain of Urbandale went a third of an inning apiece and each struck out one batter. Sophomore Zach Hoehn of Waseca, Minn., threw one inning and got his first save of the season. He struck out two batters and walked two.

KCC scored two runs in the second and one each in the third, fourth, fifth and eighth innings to come away with the win in the second game. DMACC tallied its lone run in the top of the third.

Cummins and freshman Dillon Kuehl of Urbandale accounted for four of DMACC's six hits with two hits apiece, including a double by Kuehl. Freshman Jaylen Ziegler of Urbandale also singled and drove in the Bears' only run.

Freshman J.C. Dermody of Council Bluffs pitched two and a third innings and fell to 2-3 with the loss. He allowed three runs on three hits, struck out two and walked four. Freshman Ty Madison of Omaha, Neb., went five innings, allowing three runs on four hits and striking out eight batters and freshman Thomas Leiden of Omaha. Neb., pitched two-thirds of an inning and walked one batter.