The Broken Bow American Legion seniors baseball team saw its season come to an end on Sunday as they fell to West Point in an elimination game at the Class B Area 5 tournament in O’Neill. The game went back forth with West Point scoring first with a run in the bottom of the second to go up 1-0. Broken Bow came back with a three run fifth inning to take the lead but West Point responded immediately with four runs in their half of the fifth to go up 5-3. After scoring a run in the sixth inning to make the score 5-4, Broken Bow’s Jackson Hall led off the top of the 7th with a double and then scored on a base hit by Kanzas Kellum to tie the game 5-5. In the bottom of the 7th, Josh Snodgrass walked to lead off the inning and later came around to score the winning run as West Point claimed a 6-5 walk-off win.
Broken Bow outhit West Point 8-4. Jackson Hall was 3 for 4 with 2 runs scored and 1 RBI and Kanzas Kellum was 2 for 4 with 2 RBI. Xach Lowry had a double and a run scored. Carter Hall was 1 for 2 with an RBI and Colton Uhlig had a base hit and a run scored.
Dominic Nowak delivered a solid performance on the mound in the starting role. Nowak went six plus innings throwing 101 pitches while giving up 6 runs (4 earned) and striking out three.
The Bow seniors conclude the season with a 16-15 overall record.
