In their final regular season tune up before the area tournament, the Broken Bow American Legion seniors baseball team traveled to O’Neill Sunday for a doubleheader.
In game one, Broken Bow used a seven run second inning to key a 15-2 victory in a game that was shortened to five innings on the five run rule. Bow’s 15 runs came on 10 hits. Kayden Record and Brycen Woodward each had a multi hit game in the win. Record was 3 for 3 with 3 runs scored and 3 RBI while Woodward went 2 for 2 with 3 runs scored and 1 RBI. Max Denson pitched 2 1/3 innings giving up no runs on no hits while striking out six. Caenyn Priest pitched 2 2/3 innings giving up 2 runs on 1 hit and striking out five.
Broken Bow completed the sweep with an 11-1 win in six innings on the eight run rule after five. O’Neill led 1-0 in game two after four innings before Broken Bow broke the game open with 7 runs in the fifth inning and 4 more in the sixth. Eli Coble led the way offensively for the Bow seniors finishing 4 for 4 with 2 runs scored and 1 RBI. Brice Chaplin went 2 for 2 with 2 runs scored and 2 RBI as the Bow seniors improve their overall record to 16-6.
Broken Bow will host the Class B Area 6 senior legion tournament at Paul Brown Field beginning Friday. All Broken Bow games from the tournament will be broadcast on KBBN 95.3 FM and kbbn.com.
