Long ball dooms Garden City in loss to Eastern Oklahoma

McAlester, OK-It was a long day for Broncbuster pitching.  

Josh Oller's squad gave up four long balls including one to Augusto Schroeder, who also drove in three runs as Eastern Oklahoma State beat Garden City, 9-3 Friday afternoon.  

Starter, Matthew Lorencz lasted only one inning for the Broncbusters, which fell to 2-13 overall. He allowed three runs on three hits and walked four. 

Camden White, who improved to 2-2 on the bump, scattered six hits in seven innings for the Mountaineers, which won their third straight game to improve to 5-15 overall. Dawson Price and Logan Smith each collected two hits, and Zeb Henry and Ruben Venter each scored twice.  

Garden City, which finished 1-for-10 with runners in scoring position and 2-for-19 with men on base, took the lead when Brett Barber smacked a two-run single in the top of the first.  

But it was all Mountaineers from there. 

Schroeder and Logan Smith collected run-scoring base hits in the bottom of the first to tie the game before Venter powered a solo shot over the wall in right in the second for a 3-2 advantage. 

After Garden City knotted the score in the sixth, Eastern Oklahoma State went to work. Jackson Archambeau gave the Mountaineers the lead for good with a home run to left in the bottom half, and Schroeder hit a two-run bomb as part of a four-run eighth that put the game away.  

Jace Reid, who has received high praise from Oller during the early part of the season, was steady in five innings of relief, allowing two runs on four hits while fanning four. He did walk four but pitched three shutout innings before surrendering a run in the sixth.