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Peanut Brazzle sparks Bat Cats
Home sweet home.
Great Bend Bat Cat Peanut Brazzle drove home four runs to ignite a 13-1 Jayhawk Collegiate baseball victory over the Derby Twins Saturday.
Bat Cat pitcher Zachary Alarid (1-0) delivered a vintage summer opener with four strikeouts in six shutout innings. Alarid pitched 21 innings with a 1-2 record at Sam Houston State this spring.
Andrugh Yee, Jaxon Bunkers, Kirby Orth and T.J Shaw each drove home two runs.
The Bat Cats (4-0, 3-0 Jayhawk) roared to a 13-0 lead keyed by a 9-run fourth inning.
Shaw scored on Bunkers' first-inning groundout.
Derby gift wrapped a 9-run inning with four walks. Bunkers scored on Brazzle's fly ball. Kirby Orth and Shaw scored on bases loaded walks.
Shaw's single scored Decario Delancy and George McCarroll. Cesar Chavira scored on Yee's single. Orth singled home Yee and Dylan Sarna. Bunkers scored on Brazzle's second sacrifice fly for a 10-0 lead.
Yee homered and Brazzle's homer plated Bunkers for a 13-0 lead.
Derby's Mason Wisnieski scored on Noah Allison's seventh-inning single.
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Great Bend 100 703 x — 13 11 0
Carlson, Ruff (4), Sweeney (4) and Sandy. Alarid, Smith (7) and Chavira. W—Alarid, 1-0. L—Carlson, 0-1. 2B—GB—Bunkers; D—Wisnieski. HR—GB—Yee (1), Brazzle (1).
JAYHAWK COLLEGIATE
Great Bend Bat Cats 3-0 4-0
Junction City Brigade 3-1 4-1
Hutchinson Monarchs 4-2 4-2
Derby Twins 2-1 2-1
Newton Rebels 2-1 2-1
Wichita Factory 3-3 3-3
Haysville Aviators 1-1 5-1
Kansas Cannons 2-4 2-4
Kingman Islanders 0-6 0-6
6-5—Cannons 7, Hutchinson 4; Wichita 5, Kingman 4; Junction City 14, KC Knights 4
6-6—Great Bend 13, Derby 1; Haysville 10, Junction City 7; Cannons 13, Hutchinson 0; Wichita 12, Kingman 2
6-7—Derby at Hutchinson; Newton at Junction City; Wichita at Cannons
6-8—Kingman at Great Bend; Haysville at Newton
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