Cougars Respond to Split Doubleheader with Anne Arundel CC
Frederick Community College Cougars baseball battled through a competitive Region 20 doubleheader against Anne Arundel Community College, earning a split as the Cougars dropped the opener 6–3 before responding with a 9–6 win in Game 2. The results moved FCC to 29–12 overall and 19–5 in Region 20 Division II play.
In the first game, pitching and defense dominated the early innings at FCC, with neither team breaking through until Anne Arundel scratched across a run in the second. The visitors gradually built a 4–0 lead through five innings, capitalizing on timely hitting. Frederick starter Colin Milligan kept the game within reach, but Anne Arundel added insurance runs in the sixth and seventh to extend the margin to 6–0. In the bottom of the seventh, FCC Sophomore Braydon Kelman delivered a three-run double to left-center but the Riverhawks closed out the opener despite Frederick's late push on its home field.
Game 2 told a very different story as the Cougars jumped on the scoreboard early in the first inning behind Clayton Dorsey's RBI double and responded each time Anne Arundel threatened momentum. After the visitors briefly took a 3–1 lead, Dorsey answered again with a two-run home run in the third, igniting a decisive stretch of offense. The fourth inning proved to be the turning point, as Frederick sent multiple runners home through patient at-bats and timely hits, highlighted by Cole Swinimer's two-run single and Luis Perez Alfaro's RBI double that gave FCC a commanding advantage. Despite AACC pressure with three runs in the fifth, the Cougars never relinquished control. Perez Alfaro and Dorsey added key RBI hits in the sixth inning, while the FCC bullpen locked things down. Quinn Brommer was effective in relief, retiring every hitter he faced over the final innings to preserve the victory. Swinimer finished with four runs scored and two RBIs, while Dorsey drove in four.
The Cougars now turn their attention to a matchup against Westmoreland County Community College on Thursday, April 27, when FCC will host a single nine-inning game at 3:00 PM.