Southeast scores late; edges Broncbusters in game one

By Mike Pilosof

Photo by Adam Shrimplin

Garden City, KS-The Broncbusters couldn't hold a sizable lead.

Nolan Brown and Jackson Meier each homered, and Southeast erased a 5-0 deficit to beat Garden City, 6-5 in game on Friday afternoon at Williams Stadium. The loss dropped Chris Finengan's team to 1-7.

The Broncbusters looked like they were well on their way to snapping a six-game losing streak. Ryan Muniz's towering three-run blast in the second followed by Hector Garcia's RBI single made it 4-0. An inning later, Quinn Gundelfinger scored on a wild pitch to stretch the lead to 5-0.

But starter Guillermo Gelpi began to bend in the fifth. Brown smashed a one-out, solo homer to center, and Meier clubbed a two-run shot three batters later to slice the deficit to two. In the seventh, an error and a hit batsmen put two on for the Storm. That setup pinch hitter Zach Johnson, who laced the game-tying double to the gap in right. Then in the eighth, Eric Anderson's RBI groundout put Southeast in front for good.

Ibrahim Rodriguez and Will Gardner each collected two hits in the losing effort for Garden City. Muniz drove in three while Gelpi surrendered three runs on four hits in five innings. Meantime Noah McCandless dropped to 0-2, giving up the go-ahead run in a bumpy eighth inning.

Parker Thomas was the winning pitcher for Southeast, fanning three in two innings of work.