GARDEN CITY BLUES 6, LARNED 5 – The Garden City Blues rallied from a 5-0 deficit with six runs for a fifth-inning victory Sunday. Caleb Metzen scored on a game-winning wild pitch after he tripled home Austin Elam.
Larned led 5-0. Logan Erway singled home Ian Orth, Erway scored on a Carlos Ibarra sacrifice fly and Brady Hope scored on a third-inning wild pitch. Owen Reece scored on a groundball and Carson Shaver scored on an error for a 5-0 lead.
Larned contributed three errors as Carl Bors, Chase Batterton, Luis Varela and Chase McGraw scored fourth-inning runs.
Larned (3-7) plays the Great Bend Legion Braves Wednesday.
Larned 003 20 – 5 5 3
GC Blues 000 42 – 6 3 3
Alvarez and Shaver. Welker, Metzen (5) and Harris W—Metzen. L—Alvarez, 1-2. 3B—GC—Metzen.
LARNED 15, GOVE COUNTY 5 – Logan Erway doubled and homered and drove home three runs to spark Larned’s Legion basebsall team past Gove County 15-5 Saturday night. Larned put the game away with a 12-run fifth inning.
Brady Hope drove home two runs. Ian Orth, Carlos Ibarra and Deacon Martin also drove home runs. Hope doubled and tripled. Ibarra tripled.
Larned 120 0(12) – 15 12 2
Gove Co. 032 00 – 5 3 7
Reece, Alvarez (5) and Shaver. Beyers, Boeckwinkel (5), Vaughn (5) and Elder. W—Reece, 2-1. L—Beyers. 2B—L—Hope, Erway; GC--Elder. 3B—Ibarra, Hope. HR—L—Erway,
LIBERAL RATTLERS 8, LARNED 0 – Liberal pitcher Cade Thomas spun a 3-hit shutout with five strikeouts. Larned’s Carlos Ibarra, Hope and Tristan Regan singled.
Liberal’s Jhett Huffman drove home four runs. Liberal scored in five of six innings.
Larned 000 000 – 0 3 3
Liberal 111 302 – 8 8 0
Hope, Orth (2) and Shaver, Bowersox. Thomas and Schwindt. W—Thomas. L—Hope, 0-1. 2B—L—Martinez.
COLBY 8, LARNED 5 (FRIDAY) – Larned passed out seven walks, three hit batters and two errors that handed Colby an 8-5 victory. Colby broke a 5-5 tie with back-to-back bases loaded walks and a groundout that scored its eighth run.
Larned’s Brady Hope scored on a first-inning passed ball. Colby converted three walks and a hit batter for three runs. Larned responded for a 3-3 tie when Hope’s single scored Cade Colglazier and Owen Reece.
Colby regained the lead on a run-scoring error and Landen Vogler’s RBI single. Logan Erway’s fourth-inning triple scored Ian Orth and Hope for a 5-5 tie.
Larned 120 20 – 5 3 2
Colby 320 30 – 8 4 2
Reece, Orth (2), Ibarra (3), Hope (5) and Shaver. Foss and Barton, Withington. W—Foss. L—Ibarra, 0-1. 3B—L—Erway.
