April 18, 2006                    

Cowley baseball team forced to forfeit three wins

The Cowley College baseball team was notified Monday by Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference Commissioner Bryce Roderick that it would have to forfeit its past three victories for using players that were supposed to be serving two game suspensions.

Due to an unfortunate circumstance where baseball players from Cowley and Coffeyville Community College left their dugouts and went onto the playing field during the second game of last Thursday’s doubleheader at City Ball Park, players from both teams were supposed to be suspended from their team’s next two games. Thus, making both teams forfeit their next two games.

However, Cowley was under the impression that just two players were facing suspensions for their role in the melee, and was unaware that the entire team should have been suspended for two games.

Unfortunately, the Tigers must forfeit their 13-3 run-rule win in the second game of the doubleheader vs. Coffeyville, and also forfeit a pair of run-rule wins over Kansas City on Saturday.

Coffeyville also had to forfeit its doubleheader win over Neosho County on Saturday, which changed the landscape of the conference standings.

With the forfeits, Cowley went from having a two-game lead in the Jayhawk Conference Eastern Division, to trailing Neosho County by three games. The Tigers (27-18 overall, 18-12 Jayhawk East) are now tied for third place in the conference with Kansas City.

Coffeyville (22-20 overall, 16-14 Jayhawk East) falls from fourth place in the conference to sixth.