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 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2026/3/1774875964292.jpeg" alt="Aiden Marien and the Blue Dragon baseball team earned a pair of run-rule victories of 18-8 and 17-5 over Butler to win the series with the Grizzlies 3-1 on Saturday. (Photo courtesy Ed Bailey)" />
 <figcaption>Aiden Marien and the Blue Dragon baseball team earned a pair of run-rule victories of 18-8 and 17-5 over Butler to win the series with the Grizzlies 3-1 on Saturday. (Photo courtesy Ed Bailey)</figcaption>
 </figure><div>Hutchinson CC Sports Information
 EL DORADO &ndash; After dropping the series opener with the Butler Grizzlies on Thursday at Hobart-Detter Field, the Hutchison Community College baseball team answered that challenge in a big way. Following the Game 1 loss, the No. 11-ranked Blue Dragons reeled off three-straight run-rule victories over the Grizzlies. Hutchinson, on Saturday, earned the series win over Butler with rule-run wins of 18-8 in six innings and 17-5 in eight innings at McDonald Stadium. The Game 1 win on Saturday was a milestone victory for Blue Dragon head coach Brock Nehls, who captured his 200th career victory as a head coach. Nehls now has 120 wins in his third season at Hutchinson and 81 wins when he was the head coach at William Woods College. The Blue Dragons (29-5 overall, 11-1 Jayhawk West) continue their key three-week stretch with a single game against Cowley at 2 p.m. Tuesday and then a four-game series with No. 4 Cloud County Thursday in Concordia and Saturday at Hobart-Detter Field. Hutchinson hit a combined nine home runs on Saturday and had 13 for the series. With four homers in Game 1 and five more in Game 2, the Blue Dragons now have 11 games with four or more homers, including in 9 of the last 14 games. &nbsp; GAME 1 RECAP &ndash; Hutchinson 18, Butler 8, 6 innings <a href="https://bluedragonsports.com/sports/bsb/2025-26/bios/kuhnau_jordan_zhpn">Jordan Kuhnau</a>&nbsp;had a huge game for the Blue Dragons, going 4 for 4 with a double, two home runs and a season-high seven RBIs in Game 1. Kuhnau had a sacrifice fly in the first, a solo home run in the third, a three-run homer in the fourth and a two-run double in the sixth.&nbsp; This was Kuhnau's fourth two-home run game of the season, his second four-hit game of the season and he tied&nbsp;<a href="https://bluedragonsports.com/sports/bsb/2025-26/bios/huenfeld_cru_rbny">Cru Huenfeld</a>&nbsp;for the individual season high with seven RBIs. Kuhnau's seven RBIs also tie for the fourth-most RBIs in a single game with nine other players. The Blue Dragons hammered out 20 total hits with seven doubles and four homers.&nbsp; <a href="https://bluedragonsports.com/sports/bsb/2025-26/bios/marien_aidan_iije">Aidan Marien</a>&nbsp;was 3 for 3 with two doubles, three runs and three RBIs.&nbsp;<a href="https://bluedragonsports.com/sports/bsb/2025-26/bios/schannuel_jackson_tf4y">Jackson Schanuel</a>&nbsp;went 3 for 4 with three runs and an RBI. Huenfeld had a double and homer in going 3 for 5 with three RBIs and two runs scored. Eli Duncan was 3 for 4 with a homer and two RBIs with three runs scored. <a href="https://bluedragonsports.com/sports/bsb/2025-26/bios/mccombs_noah_1n48">Noah McCombs</a>&nbsp;(2-0) pitched the final 2 1-3 innings to get the pitching victory. He allowed two hits and one earned run.&nbsp; Tied at 1-1 after one inning, an RBI double by Diesel Purcell and a Marien sacrifice fly gave the Dragons a 3-1 lead in the second. The Dragons added three more in the third with a leadoff homer by Kuhnau and Huenfeld's two-run homer in the third. The Dragons tacked on four more runs in the fourth with Kuhnau's three-run homer and a Huenfeld RBI double to take a 10-7 lead.&nbsp; Hutchinson then exploded for eight runs in the top of the sixth. Sending 11 batters to the plate, the Dragons got two-run doubles from Marien, Kuhnau and a two-run homer from Duncan to build an 18-7 lead. GAME 2 RECAP &ndash; Hutchinson 17, Butler 5, 8 innings The Blue Dragons posted their 28th and 29th innings this season scoring five or more runs inning with a five-run fourth and sixth-run eighth to break open the series finale. The Dragons out-hit Butler 16-8, pounding out five double and five home runs in the game. <a href="https://bluedragonsports.com/sports/bsb/2025-26/bios/flowers_max_csuf">Max Flowers</a>&nbsp;went 3 for 5 with a home run, three runs scored and a pair of RBIs to lead the Dragons. Schanuel was 3 for 5 with a double and two RBIs. With single hit in Game 1 and going 2 for 4 with a homer and two RBIs in Game 2,&nbsp;<a href="https://bluedragonsports.com/sports/bsb/2025-26/bios/mazza_anthony_a5es">Anthony Mazza</a>&nbsp;extended his hitting streak to 23 games, which is the second-longest hit streak in Blue Dragon history.&nbsp; Duncan extended his hitting streak to 19 games with single hits in both games Saturday. He is now tied with Trever Adams (2009) and Luis Pimental-Guerrero (2024) for the fourth-longest hitting streak in team history. Kuhnau was 2 for 4 with a double, home run and two RBIs.&nbsp;<a href="https://bluedragonsports.com/sports/bsb/2025-26/bios/hochstein_finn_8jka">Finn Hochstein</a>&nbsp;was 2 for 5 with two doubles and an RBI. Starting pitcher&nbsp;<a href="https://bluedragonsports.com/sports/bsb/2025-26/bios/curtis_cameron_gcg1">Cameron Curtis</a>&nbsp;(3-0) pitched five innings to earn the victory. He allowed seven hits and three runs with two strikeouts and no walks.&nbsp;<a href="https://bluedragonsports.com/sports/bsb/2025-26/bios/muller_lincoln_l5b3">Lincoln Muller</a>&nbsp;pitched two perfect innings with one strikeout to close out the game. TEAM NOTES&nbsp;&ndash; With&nbsp;<a href="https://bluedragonsports.com/sports/bsb/2025-26/bios/kuhnau_jordan_zhpn">Jordan Kuhnau</a>'s two-home run game in Game 1, 10 different times this season the Blue Dragons have had a player with two homers in one game. &hellip; Kuhnau now has two home-run games against Des Moines Area, Colby, Dodge City and Butler. &hellip; Now with 80 home runs for the season, the 2026 Blue Dragons are tied for No. 7 in single-season team history. &hellip; Kuhnau now has a team-high 15 homers for the season, which ties him with Matt Rebout (2002), Stewart Hoover (2008) and Cody Gunderson (2024) for 10th on the Blue Dragon single-season list. &hellip; Eli Duncan now has 22 career homers, which ties Bobby Morgensen, Logan Sartori, Zane Schmidt and Colin Cymbalista for 11th on the career homer list. &hellip; Hutchinson now has 24 games with 10 or more runs and 23 games with 10 or more hits this season. &hellip; The Dragons' 23 triples this season are six most in team single-game history.</div>

⚾ Dragons get series win over Butler; Nehls nets career win No. 200