Cedar Rapids, IA – The Indian Hills Baseball team picked up its fifth consecutive win with a 9-6 road victory over Kirkwood Community College on Thursday afternoon. The Warriors improve to 16-8 overall and 8-3 in Iowa Community College Athletic Conference (ICCAC) play.

Indian Hills, who totaled 69 runs over its last four games, continued its offensive barrage with 16 hits on Thursday, the second-most in a single game this year for the Warriors. Six different individuals produced multi-hit games, including three each from Dylan Sayles (Rockton, IL/Hononegah) and Diamonds Cooper (Kansas City, MO/North Kansas City).

Freshman Adam Golby (Coronation, Alberta/South Central) picked up the win on the mound, going 5.1 innings with eight strikeouts in the southpaw's fourth start of the year. Golby has now won three consecutive starts while striking out at least eight batters in a game for the third straight outing.

Kirkwood built an early 3-1 lead through two innings with the Warriors' initial run coming on a Miguel Salazar (Seintanes, Venezuela/San Luis) RBI single in the second. Indian Hills eventually tied the ballgame with a pair of runs in the third inning thanks to an RBI single from Daniel Figueroa (Toa Alta, Puerto Rico/Leadership Christian Academy) and a Raul Torres (Caguas, PR/Leadership Christian Academy) sacrifice fly.

The Warriors responded to a fourth inning Kirkwood run with three runs of their own in each of the next two frames. Merrick Mathews (Centerville, IA/Centerville) drove in two runs in the fifth followed by an RBI single from Logan Myers (Andover, MN/Andover). Cooper added an RBI single in the fifth and later scored on a passed ball to push the Warriors' lead to 9-4.

Freshman Andres Beltran (Delray Beach, FL/Atlantic) took over on the mound for the Warriors in the sixth with a three-run lead and retired eight of the nine batters he faced without allowing a hit. Beltran struck out five to keep the Warrior lead intact. Sophomore Sam Hart (Highlands Ranch, CO/ThunderRidge) allowed just one baserunner in the bottom of the ninth and used back-to-back strikeouts to close out the contest. With the scoreless frame, Hart earned his sixth save of the year.

In his last five appearances spanning 12.1 innings, Beltran has not allowed an earned run for the Warriors. The freshman hurler has struck out 17 batters with just four walks issued during the stretch.

Indian Hills is back in action this weekend for a four-game series at Des Moines Area Community College. First pitch is set for 1:00 PM in Boone, IA.

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