Marlow drives in six; Garden City rolls Colby

By Mike Pilosof

Photo by Adam Shrimplin

Garden City, KS-Quinn Gundelfinger and Geoff Marlow went deep, Guillermo Gelpi struck out five, and Garden City snapped a 10-game losing streak with a 15-4 victory over Colby in game two Thursday afternoon at Williams Stadium. The Broncbusters improved to 11-28-1 overall and 4-14 in conference. The win also moved Garden City a game ahead of last-place Pratt in the Jayhawk West. 

Trailing 2-1 in the bottom of the third, the Broncbusters broke the game open. Marlow singled home two, Dylan Garcia scored on a Colby miscue, and Ryan Muniz dropped a perfect sacrifice bunt that plated Marlow for a 5-2 advantage.

After the Trojans trimmed the lead to one with two runs in the fourth, Garden City went to work in the home half. Garcia smoked a run-scoring single to center before Marlow's three-run moon shot over the center-field wall gave Chris Finnegan's squad a 9-4 lead. Following a Sage McMinn single, Konner Hatfield doubled home two, giving the home team a seven-run cushion. Marlow added an RBI groundout in the fifth followed by Gundelfinger's two-run homer to left.

Meantime Gelpi kept Colby off balance for most of the day. He worked around a pair of singles in the sixth and induced a 4-6-3 game-ending double play in the seventh. His final line: four runs on 10 hits in seven innings. He threw 114 pitches to earn his second win of the season.

Will Gardner and Connor Camden combined to go 6-for-9 at the top of the order, Marlow drove in a season-high six runs, and eight of the nine players in the lineup collected at least one hit.

Colby starter Travis Onisto was tagged for nine earned runs on seven hits in just 3 1/3.