Boom sweeps Train Robbers
The Great Bend Boom baseball team completed a two-game home sweep of the Topeka Train Robbers 11-4 Tuesday after an 8-7 walk-off victory Monday at Al Burns Field.
Great Bend (11-11) travels to Garden City Thursday and returns home Friday against Garden City.
• BOOM 11, TRAIN ROBBERS 4 — D.J. Sharabi (5-1) threw eight shutout innings and drove home three runs to spark Great Bend. Sergio Leon drove in three runs.
Sharabi’s sacrifice fly drove home Kirby Campbell in the second inning. Leon drilled a third-inning home run.
Great Bend scored six runs in the fourth. Reece Bell’s RBI single drove home Kedeem Octave. Kirby Campbell scored on Sharabi’s misplayed groundball. Dom Lincoln’s single drove home Bell. Sharabi scored on an error. Leon’s double drove home Lincoln and Tevin Padgett for an 8-0 lead.
Sharabi’s fifth-inning single drove in Campbell. Matt Rembielak’s single drove home Sharabi for a 10-0 lead. Campbell’s sixth-inning double scored Darryl Baca.
Topeka’s Nick Stading homered and Jon Tasis and Charles Reeves delivered RBI hits in a four-run ninth inning.
• BOOM 8, TRAIN ROBBERS 7 — Great Bend’s Campbell delivered a game-winning 10th-inning double that scored Logan Clifton and Sergio Leon to end a four-hour ballgame. Clifton doubled and Leon and Darryl Baca walked to load the bases off pitcher Tyler Shannon. Baca doubled and scored on a wild pitch for a 6-6 tie in the ninth inning.
The Train Robbers were primed to steal a road victory when Gabriel Acevedo’s 10th-inning single scored Chris Scura for a 7-6 lead.
Great Bend scored three third-inning runs on bases-loaded walks to Baca, Campbell and Rembielak. Lincoln’s sacrifice fly scored Baca in the fifth inning. Lincoln’s single scored Campbell in the seventh inning.
BOOM 11, TOPEKA 4
Tevin Padgett 4 1 1 1
Matt Rembielek 4 0 0 1
Sergio Leon 5 1 2 3
Darryl Baca 4 1 1 0
Kedeem Octave 4 1 1 0
Kirby Campbell 4 3 3 1
Reece Bell 4 1 2 1
Dom Lincoln 5 1 2 1
D.J. Sharabi 4 2 2 3
TOTALS 35 11 14 11
Topeka 000 000 004 — 4 7 4
Great Bend 011 621 00x – 11 14 2
Dragone, DeLeon (5), Hernandez (8) and Caillouet, Stading (7). Sharabi, Miller (9), Blackiston (9) and Baca. W—Sharabi (5-1). L—Dragone. 2B—Campbell. HR—Stading.
BOOM 8, TOPEKA 7
Sergio Leon 4 1 0 0
Tevin Padgett 2 0 0 0
Kedeem Octave 3 0 0 0
Darryl Baca 4 2 1 1
Kirby Campbell 5 1 1 4
Matt Rembielek 2 0 0 1
Reece Bell 4 0 0 0
Dom Lincoln 3 1 3 2
Pat Barnett 2 1 0 0
Philip Ramos 1 0 0 0
Thomas Grady 1 0 0 0
Logan Clifton 4 2 1 0
TOTALS 35 8 6 8
Topeka 031 100 010 1 — 7 15 3
Great Bend 003 010 101 2 – 8 6 2
Vranau, Geary (3), Truex (6) and Shannon (8) and Tasis. Barnett, Ramos (8), Gonsalvez (10) and Baca. W—Ramos. L—Shannon. 2B—GB, Baca, Campbell, Clifton; TT, Home, Ellis, Vranau, Geary.
NORTH DIVISION
Trinidad, Colo. Triggers 18-9
Garden City Wind 12-12
Great Bend Boom 11-11
Salina Stockade 11-14
Topeka Train Robbers 9-15
SOUTH DIVISION
Tucson, Ariz. Saquaros 22-6
Roswell, N.M. Invaders 16-9
Alpine, Texas Cowboys 12-12
White Sands, N.M. Pupfish 11-16
Santa Fe N.M. Fuego 5-23
GREAT BEND BOOM (11-11)
Home games, Al Burns Memorial Field
Boom 5, Salina Stockade 2
Boom 6, Stockade 0
Stockade 7, Boom 5
Boom 10, Stockade 5
Boom 8, Topeka Train Robbers 3
Train Robbers 2, Boom 1
Boom 11, Train Robbers 6
Boom 5, Train Robbers 3
Garden City Wind 5, Boom 3
Wind 6, Boom 5
Boom 4, Wind 0
Boom 8, Train Robbers 1
Train Robbers 6, Boom 1
Train Robbers 7, Boom 6
Train Robbers 8, Boom 6
Wind 14, Boom 4
Wind 5, Boom 2
Boom 16, Stockade 15
Stockade 9, Boom 7
Stockade 11, Boom 5
Boom 8, Train Robbers 7
Boom 11, Train Robbers 4
Thursday—at Garden City Wind
Friday—Garden City Wind
Saturday—at Garden City Wind
Sunday—Garden City Wind