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Homer-happy Boom upsets Wind
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GARDEN CITY — The Great Bend Boom baseball team hammered six home runs to shock the league leaders Garden City Wind 15-9 Thursday at Clint Lightner Field. Mitchell Gonsalvez (1-0) worked three innings and yielded one run.
Jonathon Tasis hit two home runs. Pecos League All-Star Logan Trowbridge drilled a three-run homer and drove in five runs.
Trowbridge’s three-run third-inning homer scored Nathan Williams and and Tevin Padgett after a double and single. Tasis followed with a homer for a 5-0 lead. Trowbridge, Tevin Padgett and Matt Rembielak drove in runs in a three-run fourth inning for a 8-2 lead.
Clayton Truex drilled a three-run homer in the fifth after Tasis was hit by a pitch and Dominique Lincoln walked. Nathan Williams homered and Darryl Baca’s sacrifice fly scored Padgett for a 13-6 lead. Lincoln homered in the sixth inning. Trowbridge singled home Padgett in the seventh inning,
Scott Torrey (4-1) yielded eight runs in four innings. The teams combined for 24 runs and 23 hits.
The Boom (17-26) returns home Saturday night against Garden City. The Pecos League All-Star Game is Tuesday at Santa Fe, N.M. Great Bend catchers Logan Trowbridge and Darryl Baca and pitcher D.J. Sharabi will compete.
BOOM 15, WIND 9
GB 014 351 100 — 15 14 2
GC 002 421 000 — 9 9 1
Miller, Simpson (5), Gonsalvez (6), Ramos (9) and Baca. Torrey, Powers (5), White (5), Ovalles (7) and Cooper. W—Gonzalez. L—Torrey. 2B—GB, Trowbridge, Williams; GC, Cecere, Ardeeser. HR—GB, Tasis 2, Trowbridge, Lincoln, Truex, Williams; GC, Simpson, Roundtree.

PECOS NORTH
Trinidad Triggers 24-20
Garden City Wind 24-21
Salina Stockade 21-26
Topeka Train Robbers 20-25
Great Bend Boom 17-26

PECOS SOUTH
Tucson Saquaros 35-13
Roswell Invaders 33-14
Alpine Cowboys 24-21
White Sands Pupfish 21-29
Santa Fe Fuego 11-36