From the Broken Bow team website, some details on Broken Bow’s wins Saturday at the Rose Cup tournament in Portland, Oregon:
Andrew Kirkpatrick struck out 13 and allowed 4 hits as the Broken Bow Gremlins opened the 2007 season with a 4-1 win over the California Lumberkings, Jarrad Martin was 3×3 with an rbi for the Gremlins
Broken Bow Gremlins 1 Vancouver Grey Sox 0This one was a classic pitching duel, Nick Undrehill for Vancouver and Jeremy Manley for Broken Bow. Underhill finished with 10 k’s 3 hitter and Manley 11 with a no hitter. The game was scoreless until the seventh when Frank Basurto had an infield single and Pat Shannon scored from second on some heads up baserunning. Vancouver Grey Sox shortstop Rob Giesbrecht fielded Basurto’s ball up the middle but did not attempt to throw Basurto out, instead he threw behind Shannon who had rounded third but instead of stopping Pat scampered home with the winning run.
Broken Bow Gremlins 5 SoCal Bombers 1
The Gremlins got 4 runs in the top of the eighth inning, 3 on a home run by catcher Pat Shannon to upend the SoCal Bombers 5-1. The Gremlins scored a run in the top of the first but could not get to Bomber pitcher Sean Whitten (15 k’s) until the first extra inning The Bombers got a run in the bottom of the seventh inning to take the game to extra innings. Andrew Kirkpatrick (11 k’s) and Jeremy Manley (6 k’s) combined for a 7 hitter. Broken Bow escaped disaster as runner Bob Rosthenhausler did not tag up on Nathan Nukunuku’s long fly ball to center field, but a Jarrad Martin single sandwiched between a Moises Duran walk scored Rosthenhausler, then came Shannon’s blast. Summary for the day was good pitching, not so good hitting. First game on possibly rainy Sunday at 10:30am.