BIig Brown

    Both the Dodge City Rangers and Junior Rangers were victorious in their respective doubleheaders at home Tuesday.
    The Rangers defeated Larned 6-5 in game one, and then followed that with a 7-5 victory to take the series, while the Junior Rangers eked out both victories against Great Bend 8-7 and 13-12.

    The Dodge City Athletics lost to the Hays Larks Sunday to end their three-game winning streak. And after a 21-0 win in Wichita Monday, the A's dropped another one to the Larks at home Tuesday.
    Dodge fell to Hays in extra innings 7-5 after jumping out to a quick 3-0 lead after one inning of play.

    After beating Great Bend and Ulysses at home over the weekend  to take the Ranger Invitational title, the Dodge City Rangers lost two at home to Woodward Monday.
    Dodge lost game one 8-4 and continued to struggle at the plate in the second game with a 17-1 lopsided defeat.

    The Dodge City Athletics (8-6, 3-6 Jayhawk League) defeated the Wichita Titans 21-0 on the road Monday.

On Oct. 4, Harold Patterson will celebrate his 78th birthday.
    Coincidentally, that will also be the day the Rozel native and former Garden City Community College three-sport athlete will become a member of his third hall of fame.
    The Kansas Sports Hall of Fame in Wichita recently introduced its 14-member 2009 induction class, and Patterson is included.
    "It's an honor," Patterson said. "It's pretty cool, I guess, that it's on my birthday. It's my third time in a hall, so it's nice."

    The Dodge City Athletics' winning streak ended at three games after a 3-1 loss to the Hays Larks Sunday at Cavalier Field.
    Dodge only allowed one earned run and stranded a total of nine baserunners on the night to fall to 3-6 in Jayhawk League play and 7-6 overall.

    The Dodge City Rangers came back in one game and run-ruled their competition in another to capture the championship of the Ranger Invitational Sunday at Demon Field.
    Dodge defeated Great Bend 11-8 in their first game Sunday, and then run-ruled Ulysses 10-2 for the championship.

    The Wichita Titans committed four errors Friday night at Cavalier Field and paved the way for the third straight win for the Dodge City Athletics.
    Walking only two Wichita hitters, the Dodge pitching staff hurled a scoreless game en route to the 6-0 win.

     After Tuesday's 11-7 win against Valley Center, Dodge City Athletics manager Jeremy Irlbeck said his team had to start playing baseball for nine innings in order to be competitive in the Jayhawk League.
    Thursday night in a home matchup with the Liberal BeeJays, the A's did just that.
    Dodge City faced a 4-0 deficit in the bottom of the fifth, but thanks to four perfect innings by relief pitcher Michael LaCourse, the A's rallied to win 5-4 to get above the .500 mark on the season and take their third Jayhawk win as well.

    Several members of the Dodge City A's baseball team did their part to spread the game of baseball to area children at a clinic at Youthville on Wednesday.
    The effort was spearheaded by second-year player Jermaine Barksdale, a pitcher from Odessa (Texas) College who first helped out at Youthville as a member of the 2008 A's.