HAYS – The Great Bend Braves baseball team (2-10) finished with a 1-2 record at the Hays Tournament.

BRAVES 7, HAYS HBC HAMMER 0 – Braves pitcher Carson Poe and reliever Milsap shut out Hays HBC Hammer. Right fielder Eli Soupiset helped turn a double play.

Aiden Hekele’s single scored Slade Mohr and Peyden Oelger in a 5-run first inning. Oelger’s single scored Jaxon Wondra. Poe scored on a passed ball. Austin Gilbert scored on a wild pitch. Kale Kern was forced home on a walk. Eli Soupiset stole home for a 5-0 lead.

Gunnar Gilkison scored on a wild pitch and Poe scored on a passed ball for a 7-0 lead. Slade Mohr hit a sacrifice fly. Soupiset hit an RBI groundout. Hekele scored on a passed ball and Mohr scored on an error for an 11-0 victory.

PRATT GREENBACKS 8, BRAVES 0 – Hays tournament champion Pratt powered past the Braves with a no-hit performance by pitchers Jayden Mies and Josiah Schmidt.

Pratt's Noah Riley, Max Younie, Owen Schmidt, Barrett Bolen, Chaz Teafatiller and Ethan Koger drove home runs. 

FINNEY COUNTY 7, BRAVES 5 – Kale Kern doubled and homered and drove home two runs as the Braves nearly overcame a 7-1 deficit.

Oelger singled home Mohr for a second-inning run. Wondra scored on Poe’s single to start a 3-run fourth inning. Poe scored on Kern’s double. Kern scored on Colin Saffa’s sacrifice fly. Kern’s sixth-inning homer capped the Braves’ scoring.

Braves shortstop Wondra turned a first-inning double play. Second baseman Oelger turned a second-inning double play.

GB Braves 511 004 – 11 5 0

HBC Hammer 000 000 – 5 3

Poe, Milsap (5) and Saffa. W–Poe. 3B–GB–Oelger.

Pratt 001 70 – 8 5 0

GB Braves 000 00 – 0 0 4

Mies, Schmidt (3) and Teafatiller. Saffa, Kern (4), Hekele (5) and Milsap. W–Mies. L–Saffa. 

GB Braves 010 301 0 – 5 4 1

Finney County 133 000 x – 7 3 3

Kern, Wondra (2), Gilbert (6) and Milsap, Saffa. Johnson, Ortega (4), Hernandez (7) and Farr. W—Ortega. L—Kern. 2B—GB—Kern. HR—GB—Kern.

Poe and Saffa. Drennon, Dreiling (1), Morgan (3) and Flaska.