ENID, Okla. – No. 3 Parkland baseball swept their Saturday doubleheader on the campus of Northern Oklahoma-Enid with an 8-7 comeback victory over the No. 6 Jets and then a 15-4 blowout of Ellsworth. With the two wins, the Cobras improve to 4-2 on the season.
 
Scoring 23 runs on 22 hits on Saturday, the Cobras hit .415 with seven home runs in the two victories, led by two home runs from Trevor Burkhart, Robert Barnard and Corey Price. Barnard and Dan Warkentin led the team with four hits, while Barnard and Burkhart combined for a team-high four RBI.
 
On the mound, Keegan McHood picked up the victory in the comeback win against No. 6 Northern Oklahoma-Enid and Ty Rybarczyk earned his first win of the season against Ellsworth behind eight strikeouts. Ryan Culley started game one, pitching five-plus innings and striking out seven Jets.
 
Up next, Parkland will have a rematch against Northern Oklahoma-Enid at 12 p.m. and then will play North Iowa Area CC at 3 p.m. Both games will be played at David Allen Ballpark, home of the NJCAA DII World Series.
 
No. 3 Parkland 8, No. 6 Northern Oklahoma-Enid 7 (7 innings)
 
Parkland scored seven runs over the final three innings, including two in the top of the seventh, to defeat the No. 6 Northern Oklahoma-Enid on their home field. Corey Price hit his second home run of the year, while Keegan McHood picked up his first win of the season.
 
In a game that saw the two sides score 12 of the 15 runs in the final three innings, the Cobras took an early lead in the first inning with a two-out rally that plated Trevor Minder on an Alex Steinbach single. However, the host Jets quickly erased the advantage on a two-out, two-run homer in the bottom half of the inning.
 
Still trailing, 2-1, entering the fifth, the Cobras tied and retook the lead behind small ball and the long ball, tying the game without a hit before Price's solo home run put the Cobras ahead. The Cobras then padded the lead with three more tallies in the sixth inning with a walk and three singles. Robert Barnard delivered the big blow with a two-out, two RBI single.
 
The lead again switched hands in the bottom of the sixth with the Jets answering with five runs off Culley and reliever McHood, as Enid used three doubles to pace the comeback.
 
Down to their last chance, the Cobras again put up a crooked number in the seventh. After a walk by Price, a hit-by-pitch for Austin Biehl and a single from Patrick Hayes, Daniel Warkentin earned a bases-loaded hit-by-pitch to tie the game. The bases still loaded, the Jets' hurdler hit his third batter of the inning, Mike Hampton, to push Parkland back in front.
 
A pair of Jets reached in the bottom of the seventh, but McHood halted the rally with back-to-back strikeouts and then induced a come-backer to close out the victory.  
 
No. 3 Parkland 15, Ellsworth 4 (5 innings)
 
After a thrilling victory to start the day, the Cobras left no doubt in game 2 of their doubleheader, as the Cobras pounded 15 runs on 13 hits, including six home runs. On the mound, Ty Rybarczyk pitched all five innings, striking out eight, and picked up his first win of the season.
 
After giving up a run in the top half of the first inning, the Cobras took control of the game with four runs in their first turn at bat and then two more in the second inning. The two sides exchanged runs in the fourth inning, and Ellsworth added two more runs in the fifth, before the Cobras finished off the run-rule victory with an eight-run fifth inning.
 
The top of the Parkland line-up led the victory, as centerfielder Trevor Burkhart and catcher Robert Barnard combined for six hits, six runs, four home runs, six RBI and two stolen bases. Both hitting their first two home runs of the season, Burkhart drove in a team-high four RBI.
 
Joining Burkhart and Barnard in leaving the year, Corey Price homered for the second time on Saturday while Alex Steinbach connected on his second home run of the season.
 
A menace to Ellsworth at the plate and on the bases, shortstop Trevor Minder went 2-for-3 and stole a season-high three bags. First baseman Dan Warkentin balanced out the lineup with a 2-for-3 day and two-RBI double out of the eight-hole.