WICHITA – Great Bend Bombers pitcher Hunter Herrman (2-0) threw a 5-hit shutout 4-0 over Prestige Worldwide in Saturday’s Wichita State Wood Bat State Baseball Championship. The Bombers are 7-5-2.
Carson Umphres doubled home Lane French in the first inning. Umphres scored on Trenton Kern's fourth-inning double. Campbell Coleman singled in Kern for a 3-0 lead. Coleman scored on a sxth-inning error.
Umphres delivered the key defensive play with a throw to J.J. Grove, who relayed to Grove, who tagged out Colton Hollenback at third base after a fifth-inning double.
GB Bombers 100 201 0 – 4 6 1
Prestige Worldwide 000 000 0 – 0 5 5
Padgett, Rush (6), Duncan (7) and Hollenbeck. Herrman and Kaiser. W—Herrman, 2-0. 2B—GB—Umphres, Kaiser. 3B—GB—Kern.