Bombers baseball wins 12-and-under state title

COURTESY PHOTO ZACK KAISER The Great Bend-based Bombers capture the 12-and-under AA Perfect Game Midwest State Baseball Championship. Team members include front row—Cal Schartz, Gavin Wondra, Braxton Richter, Spencer Brown; second row—Maxx Steffan, Noah Kaiser, Cade Coleman, Alec Premer, Gage Grove, Drake Martin, Jaden Prilling; back row – coach Zack Kaiser, coach Jesse Richter, coach Cameron Coleman. Coach Chris Umphres missed the team photo.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. – The Great Bend based Bombers 12-and-under baseball team swept five games to capture the AA Perfect Game Midwest State Tournament at the Mid-America Sports Complex. The Bombers improve to 25-4-1.

Zack Kaiser’s team started pool play by beating the Building Champions 5-1 and Midwest Maniax 1-0 before outscoring the Kansas Outlaws 14-9 in pool play.

The No. 1 seeded Bombers downed Manhattan Impact (10-2) and Midwest Maniax (9-1) in Saturday’s championship game.

Bombers pitcher Cade Coleman threw a spectacular perfect game against Midwest Maniax in a 1-0 victory. Coleman recorded four strikeouts with no runs, no hits, no walks, and no errors.

Bombers 120 011 – 5 7 0

Champions 100 000 – 1 1 1

Midwest Maniax 000 000 – 0 0 0

Bombers 000 001 – 1 1 0

Bombers 061 3 – 10 4 1

Manhattan 010 1 – 2 3 2

Midwest Maniax 100 00 – 1 2 2

Bombers 201 06 – 9 10 1

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