Greyhound baseball to play first round at Butler

Fort Scott Community College's football team faces Butler once -- sometimes twice -- a season. The FSCC men's basketball team has played Butler occasionally throughout the past few seasons.

But this may be the first time in decades that the two schools' baseball programs will face each other -- if they ever have, that is.

Fort Scott will travel to Butler Saturday to play the first two games of a best-of-three Region VI Tournament first-round playoff series at McDonald Stadium at 1 p.m. Saturday. The third game, if necessary, will be played Sunday.

The Greyhounds (25-25) finished fifth in the Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division while Butler (33-20) was fourth in the Western Division. The top four finishers in each division earned the right to host a first-round series. The eight winners of this weekend's play will convene in Wichita next weekend to begin double-elimination play.

The 'Hounds had a chance at one of the home-field seeds with eight games to go but lost five of those games, including their last four in a row.

Butler finished three games behind division champion Garden City in a tough Western Division. The top six teams finished within four games of each other and even the seventh-place team, Cloud County, had a chance at home field until it was swept by Garden in a four-game series last weekend.

Butler made sure it finished ahead of Barton County and Seward County by taking three of four games from Dodge City last weekend. That allowed the Grizzlies to win home-field advantage by one game over both those teams. They and Colby each had 19-13 division records but the Trojans won the season series from Butler three games to one, giving them the tie-breaker for third place.