El Dorado, Kan. - In the end, the Butler Community College baseball team ran out of time and out of luck. After winning the opening game of their first-round Region VI playoff series at McDonald Stadium Saturday, the Grizzlies lost the final two, including Sunday’s 11-9, 10-inning heart-breaker to Allen County to end their 2008 season with a 30-24 overall record. Calder Cody’s leadoff home run in the second inning Sunday tied the game at 1-1, but Allen came right back to score three in the third and three more in the fourth off starting pitcher Austin Woodard and reliever Jake Jensen. Things were looking grim until Butler rallied for six runs in the bottom of the fourth. Cody led off with his second homer of the game and third of the series. Mike Garza and Kyle Ewy both singled, and Garza scored on a sacrifice fly by J.D. Herman. Anthony Salinas walked, Jake Daniels struck out and Tashland Robinson singled to load the bases with two out. Dylan Petrich singled back up the middle, and Allen center fielder Tyler Herrig misplayed it. The ball rolled all the way to the wall, allowing all four runs to score. Again, Allen bounced back, scoring a run in the fifth to take the lead back, then adding one in the eighth for a 9-7 lead. That set up some dramatics in the bottom of the ninth. Garza led off with a double, and Ewy followed with a game-tying two-run homer to left-center, setting off an explosion in the crowd. It didn’t last long. Allen scored twice in the 10th off Jensen and Bryant Cotton to take an 11-9 lead. In the bottom of the 10th, Butler got runners to second and third with two out, but this time, Allen reliever Chris Barnes got Ewy to bounce out to the shortstop to end the game, the series and the season. In a way, the Grizzlies may have been lucky just to get to Sunday. In Saturday’s opener, Butler took a 1-0 lead in the second on a solo home run by Cody, but Allen came right back to tie the game at 1-1 in the top of the third off starter Colby Killian. It would stay tied until the sixth, when the Grizzlies loaded the bases with none out. Butler would only score once, as Chad Thurman hit into a double play to score Daniels from third. Allen would quickly tie the game again in the top of the seventh, and the game remained tied going to the bottom of the eighth. Thurman walked with two out, Cody reached on an infield single and Garza walked to load the bases for catcher Ewy, who had thrown out a potential base-stealer at second base to end the top half of the inning. Ewy hit a shallow fly ball to right, and the sun and the wind caused the ball to be misplayed into a two-run bloop single for a 4-2 Butler lead. Through it all, Killian stayed in the game, even when Allen got two runners on base with two out in the ninth. Killian finished the game by forcing a grounder to Cody at third for the game’s final out. Killian allowed just two runs on six hits in nine innings, walking four and striking out eight. For a while, it looked as if Butler would sweep the series, as they scored single runs in each of the first four innings of Saturday’s second game. Ewy drove in two of those four runs while Salinas added a leadoff homer in the third. Butler still led 4-0 heading to the sixth, when things began to go horribly wrong. Starter Cotton had allowed three hits in the fifth to load the bases but had gotten out of that inning with no runs scoring. Allen finally got to Cotton for two runs in the sixth before he was replaced by Cullen Pryor, but the Red Devils scored twice more against Pryor to tie the game at 4-4. Allen would score three more runs on four hits off Pryor and Nick Ward in the seventh to take a 7-4 lead. Butler picked up a run in the eighth, thanks to a similar play to the opener’s game-winner. With two out and two on, Cody lifted a shallow fly to right, and it glanced off the second baseman’s glove for an error, allowing Petrich to score to make it 7-5. In the ninth, Herman doubled with one out, and Daniels’ two-out single scored Herman to make it 7-6, but Allen’s Douglas Rich struck out Robinson to end the game.