Garden City squanders chance; drops game four to Southeast

Garden City, KS-The Broncbusters have definitely experienced some growing pains in the first 12 games of the Caleb Cox era. Sunday's finale was no exception.  

Tyler Bishup crushed his fourth homer of the weekend as Southeast topped the Broncbusters, 7-3 in game four at Williams Stadium. The Storm took three of four from Garden City, dropping Cox's squad to 2-10 overall. 

Broncbuster starter Stephen Roozendal fell to 0-2, allowing six runs on six hits in four innings. He struck out two and walked one.  

Kaleb Carpenter notched the win for the Storm, allowing two runs on two hits in 2.1 innings. He fanned two and walked three.  

Southeast tagged Roozendall early when Bishup took the right hander deep to lead off the second. An inning later, Max Peterson's two-run single made it 3-0. 

Garden City rallied back in the bottom half thanks to freshman Brett Barber, who doubled home a pair that cut the Storm advantage to 3-2. But after Micah Perez drew a one-out walk to load the bases, Nathan Imel and Conner Thompson struck out to end the threat.  

That proved to be costly. 

Jason Juarbe's run-scoring double in the top of the fourth stretch the Southeast lead to 4-2. An inning later, the Storm plated two more before adding a seventh run in the sixth on JD Diprima's RBI triple. 

Garden City managed to score a run in the seventh on Imel's hard ground ball that snuck past Tyler Palmer on the left side of the infield. But with a chance to put the tying run on, Connor Camden popped out to short to end the game.