Hutch run-rules Garden City in six

By Mike Pilosof

Garden City, KS-Offense has been hard to come by for Chris Finengan's team at times this season. Game three was no exception.

Ben McLaughlin and Austin Callahan homered, Caden Pogue allowed just two hits, and Hutchinson blasted Garden City 11-1 Saturday afternoon at Williams Stadium.

The only thing the Broncbusters could muster in this one was a Michael Wright single in the first and a Geoff Marlow solo homer in the fourth. Other than that, it wasn't pretty. Their last six batters were retired in order, and they produced just four baserunners all day.

Meantime the Blue Dragons had no problems with the sticks. An error coupled with Jack Torosian's two-run single put Hutchinson up 3-0 in the first. After Mason Lowe's RBI single made it 4-0 in the second, Callahan smashed a leadoff homer to begin the third. Cole Cosman followed later in the inning with a two-run double, and the visitors had a seven-run cushion.

The Broncbusters finally got on the board in the fourth when Marlow took Pogue deep to left. But that was the extent of Garden City's offense. The Blue Dragons got a run back in the fifth and then blew the game open on McLaughlin's three-run bomb in the sixth.

Pogue needed just 66 pitches to pick up his third win of the season for Hutchinson, which won their seventh straight game. He struck out four in a complete-game victory.

Michael Thorne dropped to 2-4 for Garden City, allowing eight runs on nine hits in 4.2 innings.