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Great Bend Boom wins three of four
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 SALINA -- The Great Bend Boom finished off the Salina Stockade with a 10-5 baseball victory Sunday that capped a 3-1 opening weekend in the Pecos League.

The Boom opened with a two-game sweep at Great Bend and completed the four-game set with a split at Salina.

The Boom starts a three-game series Monday against the Topeka Train Robbers (0-3) at Al Burns Memorial Field.

BOOM 10, STOCKADE 5 (Sunday) - Darryl Baca continues to shine with three hits and three RBIs and a .700 batting average. Logan Trowbridge (.412) added a pair of RBIs. Pitcher D.J. Sharabi (2-0) pitched six innings and yielded two earned runs.

The Boom struck for five first-inning runs. Baca singled home Joe Quinones. Trowbridge singled home Baca. Reece Bell's single scored Trowbridge. Bell scored on an error and Sharabi's single scored Dom Lincoln for a 5-0 lead.

Kirby Campbell's sacrifice fly scored Quinones in the fourth for a 6-1 lead. Trowbridge's single scored Baca in the sixth for a 7-2 lead. Baca's two-run single scored R.J. Vukovich and Lincoln and Quinones scored on an error for a 10-5 lead.

Salina's C.J. Epperson drove home two runs on a sacrifice fly and base hit. Nathan Williams scored on an error. Nick Wagner tripled home a run and he scored on a sixth-inning wild pitch.

BOOM 10, STOCKADE 5

GB BOOM     AB R H BI

Matt Rembielak 4 0 0 0

Joe Quinones 2 3 1 0

Darryl Baca 3 2 3 3

Kirby Campbell 2 0 0 1

Logan Trowbridge 6 1 2 2

Reece Bell 4 1 2 1

Dom Lincoln 4 2 0 0

D.J. Sharabi 3 0 1 1

Ian Miller 1 0 0 0

R.J. Vuvovich 4 1 0 0

TOTALS        33 10 9 8

STOCKADE       AB R H BI

Morgan Blatnik 1 3 1 0

Nick Wagner 4 1 2 1

C.J. Epperson 4 0 1 2

Mike Rachun 3 0 0 0

Joe LaCugna 1 0 1 0

Nathan Williams 1 1 1 0

Ray Hernandez 4 0 1 0

Alex Hernandez 4 0 0 0

Gilbert Barrera 2 0 0 0

Eric Yelding 1 0 0 0

Derek Meyer 1 0 0 0

Steven Longo 4 0 1 0

TOTALS      30 5 8 3

Boom 500 101 003 - 10 9 1

Stockade 101 100 200 -  5 8 7

2B-Williams. 3B-Wagner. HP-Baca, Campbell. SF-Campbell. Epperspn. SB-Quinones 2, Blatnik 2, Baca, R. Herandez. CS-Rembielak, Bell, Wagner. E-Baca, Blatnik, Epperson, Rachun, Williams 2, McLendon, Longo. DP-GB 2, SS 1. LOB-GB 13, SS 7.

Boom       IP   H  R  ER BB SO

Sharabi    6   4  3 2 5  8

Miller     3   4  2 2 2  2

Stockade   IP  H  R  ER BB  SO   

Barerra   5.1  8  5  5   6   3

Leon      1.2  0  0  0   0   0

Burgund    0   0  0  0   2   0

McLendon  1.2  1  3  2   3   3

Epperson   0.1  0  0  0   0   0

Stockade 7, Boom 5 (Saturday) - The Boom struck for four first-inning runs before getting outscored 7-1. Stockade pitchers Kevin Delzell and Chad Flick shut down the Boom after the first inning.

Matt Rembielak and Reece Bell singled. Darryl Baca's double scored Rembielak.Logan Trowbridge's double scored Bell and Baca for a 3-0 lead. Trowbridge scored on an error for a 4-0 lead.

Salina scored two first-inning runs. Nick Wagner walked and scored on C.J. Epperson's double. Mike Rachun's double scored Epperson. 

Kevin Delzell reached on error and scored on Wagner's single for an unearned second inning run.

In the third inning, Rachun singled and Ray Hernandez doubled. Steven Longo's single scored Rachun and Hernandez for a 5-4 lead.

Salina's Epperson started the fourth by getting hit by a pitch. He scored on Nathan Williams' double. Ray Hernandez's single scored Williams for a 7-4 lead.

In the sixth, Dom Lincoln doubled home Trowbridge after a single for a 7-5 score. Baca and Lincoln singled in the eighth, but struck out pinch hitter Thomas Grady to end the Boom's final threat.

STOCKADE 7, BOOM 5

GB BOOM     AB R H BI

Joe Quinones 5 0 0 0

Matt Rembielak 5 1 1 0

Reece Bell 4 1 1 0

Darryl Baca 4 1 2 1

Kirby Campbell 4 0 1 0

Logan Trowbridge 4 2 3 2

Dom Lincoln 4 0 2 1

Steven Wisser 1 0 1 0

Mitch Gonsalvez 1 0 0 0

Thomas Grady 1 0 0 0

Tyler Blackison 0 0 0 0

Aaron McMillan 3 0 0 0

TOTALS        36 5 11 4

STOCKADE       AB R H BI

Morgan Blatnik 3 0 0 0

Nick Wagner 2 1 1 1

C.J. Epperson 4 2 1 1

Mike Rachun 5 1 2 1

Nathan Williams 4 1 1 1

Ray Hernandez 4 1 3 1

Joe LaCugna 3 0 0 0

Kevin Delzell 4 1 0 0

Chad Flick 0 0 0 0

Steven Longo 4 0 1 2

TOTALS      33 7 9 7

Boom 400 001 000 - 5 11 4

Stockade 212 200 00x -  7 9 1

2B-Baca; Trowbridge 2; Lincoln; Epperson; Rachun; Williams; Hernandez E--Rembielak; Bell; Lincoln; Wisser; LaCugna. DP-GB 1. LOB-GB 6; Salina 9. HBP-Epperson. SB-Lincoln; Epperson. WP-Delzell. HBP-Epperson (Gonsalves).

Boom       IP   H  R  ER BB SO

Wisser     2.1  5  5   4  2  2

Gonsalves  4.2  4  2   2  2  2

Blackiston 1    0  0   0  1  1

Stockade   IP   H  R  ER BB  SO

Delzell    7   10  5  4   0   4

Flick      2    1  0  0   0   1