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Great Bend Chiefs, Braves head to Pratt Friday
Smoky Ford Tournament
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The Great Bend Chiefs 19-and-under Legion baseball team - photo by JIM MISUNAS Great Bend Tribune

PRATT — The Great Bend Chiefs and Great Bend Braves will journey to Pratt Friday and Saturday for the Smoky Ford Wood Bat Baseball Tournament.
The Chiefs play Pratt at noon Friday and Garden City at 4 p.m. The Braves play Dodge City at 2 p.m. Friday and Ulysses at 6 p.m.
Place games are scheduled Saturday.

SMOKY FORD WOOD BAT TOURAMENT
AT PRATT
POOL 1—Great Bend Chiefs, Pratt, Russell, Garden City
POOL 2—Great Bend Braves, Dodge City, Hoisington, Ulysses
TIEBREAKERS—1—Head-to-head; 2—least runs allowed; 3—coin toss

FRIDAY’S GAMES
PRATT CC, STANION FIELD
Noon—Great Bend Chiefs vs. Pratt
2 p.m.—Pratt vs. Russell
4 p.m.—Great Bend Chiefs vs. Garden City
6 p.m.—Russell vs. Garden City

FRIDAY’S GAMES
GREEN SPORTS COMPLEX
2 p.m.—Great Bend Braves vs. Dodge City
4 p.m.—Dodge City vs. Hoisington
6 p.m.—Great Bend Braves vs. Ulysses
8 p.m.—Hoisington vs. Ulysses

SATURDAY’S GAMES
GREEN SPORTS COMPLEX
10 a.m.—1st-place game
12:30 p.m.—3rd-place game
3 p.m.—5th-place game
5:30 p.m.—7th-place game

2017 GREAT BEND CHIEFS (11-10)
LL—Russell 1-11, 3-11
LL—Russell 15-16, 4-8
LL—Wichita East 8-9, 3-13
WW—Larned 14-6, 18-3
W—Dodge City 13-5
WW—Hutchinson 10-4, 15-8
LLWL—Dodge City (Beloit 5-9, Dodge City 1-2, Pratt 11-3, Hays-TMP 8-12)
WL—Hutchinson 7-3, 7-8
WWWW—Chiefs Classic (Larned 11-0, Pratt 6-4, Hutchinson 6-4, Russell 6-3)
6-28—at Dodge City
6-30—at Pratt Tournament (Pratt, Garden City)
7-1—at Pratt Tournament
7-5—Buhler
7-13–at Class AAA Zone, Great Bend

CHIEFS ROSTER
1—Keaton Reneau RP-C-OF
6—Max Jerke RP-2B-OF
7—Jared Maneth C-1B-3B-SS
9—Brayden Smith LP-1B-RF
10—Cory Burnham RP-2B-3B-SS
11—Konner Ireland RP-SS-2B
12—Payton Mauler RP-3B-C-OF
13—Logan Perry LP-1B-RF
19—Brice Kaiser RP-1B-OF
24—Daton Bieker RP-2B-SS-OF
23—Zach Jacobs RP-C-OR-IF
25—Dalton Bender RP-3B-OF
27—Koy Brack RP-C-3B-SS-OF
Coaches—Mike Perry, Jason Perry

2017 GREAT BEND BRAVES (17-10)
WW—Russell 13-3, 14-3
LW—Chanute 2-8; Kansas Senators 10-2
LW—Emporia 1-2; Mound City 10-9
WW—Hays 11-9, 10-8
WW—Cunningham 17-0, 36-2
WW—Dodge City 5-4, 8-2
WL—Pratt 13-8, 5-13
WWWWL—Braves Classic (Russell 10-2, Salina Hawks 9-1, Hutchinson 8-2, Russell 11-4, Salina Hawks 5-16)
LL—Hays 7-9, 14-15
WW—Kinsley 14-0, 12-2
LLLL—Chiefs Classic (Colts 0-4, Russell 8-11, Pratt 9-10, Larned 5-7)
6-28—Dodge City
6-29—at Kinsley
6-30—at Pratt Tournament (Dodge City, Ulysses)
7-1—at Pratt Tournament
7-5—at Buhler
7-8-10–at Class A Zone, Buhler

BRAVES ROSTER
1—Joey Soupiset RP-3B
3—Cal Kaiser 2B-CF-LF
4—Jacob Hanrahan RP-2B
5—Brayden Powell RP-3B
8—Calan Haberman RP-RF-CF
9—Riley Smith RP-2B-D-LF
10—Christian Zahnter RP-SS
13—Colin Hall RP-C-3B-RF
14—Nahum Olivas 2B-LF-RF
24—Eduardo Bujanda RP-1B-C
28—Jayce Christiansen RP-2B-RF-CF
33—Townshend Kurth RP-SS
42—Dalton Barfield RP-1B-C
35—Jesus Bujanda RF
Coaches—Travis Kurth, Darrin Hall