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Bat Cats rally past Mulvane Patriots
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Big inning rescues Bat Cats

BY JIM MISUNAS

jmisunas@gbtribune.com

 

MULVANE – Great Bend reliever Easton Young stayed red hot.

The Bat Cats rallied from a 4-1 deficit to beat the Mulvane Patriots 6-4 in Friday’s Sunflower Collegiate League baseball game.

Mulvane’s Willie Ward and Tanner Schuetz homered. Caleb Stull singled home Ward and Jack Mai in the fifth inning for a 4-1 Aviator lead.

Bat Cat Daunte Freeman hit his third homer in the fourth inning. Hunter Romero’s two-run homer scored Freeman in the sixth inning for a 4-3 score.

Mulvane handed the Bat Cats the victory with three unearned seventh-inning runs. Brenden Tauber scored on a passed ball. Collin Meinert and Freeman scored on a throwing error for a 6-4 lead.

Reliever Will Mossa (2-2) earned the victory with three innings followed by Easton Young, who retired the side I  the ninth inning.

The Bat Cats (19-10) maintain a two-game lead on the Hutchinson Monarchs (16-11).

GB Bat Cats 000 102 300 – 6 9 1

Mulvane 110 020 000 – 4 10 2

Ensz, Mossa (6), Young (9) and Bloomer. Nagle, Kress (6), Rodd (7), Pechin (9) and Stull. W—Mossa. L—Rodd. Sv—Young. 2B—GB—Bloomer. HR—GB—Freeman (3), Romero (1); M—Ward, Scheutz.