The Broken Bow Post 126 Seniors baseball team and the Broken Bow Spirit 18U softball team both continued play in weekend tournaments on the road Saturday. The Seniors are playing in the Plattsmouth wood bat tournament, while the Spirit are competing in the Kearney Klassic tournament.
Post 126 Seniors go 0-2 on Saturday
The Broken Bow Seniors played the Bennington Post 266 Juniors first on Saturday, falling 3-9. Broken Bow led by a run 3-2 at the end of the first inning, but Bennington went on to score 7 unanswered runs to take the win.
The great start in the first inning was powered by a Drew Ellis single that brought in a run as well as a double from Xack Lowry that brought in two more. Those two RBI’s led the Broken Bow offense in the box score at the end of the game. Jackson Hall, Colton Uhlig, Xack Lowry, Kayden Record, and Drew Ellis all had a hit for the seniors.
Broken Bow played the Post 56 Seniors of Plattsmouth next on Saturday, falling 0-10 in the game. The Plattsmouth team scored a run in the first inning, three in the second inning, and six in the fourth inning of a game that only went 4 1/2 innings.
With the losses, Broken Bow fell below .500 to a 2-3 record that they will look to pull back to .500 in a game against the Syracuse Post 100 Seniors on Sunday to round out the tournament.
Spirit tally losses against Prodigy, Northwest Voyagers 18U
The Broken Bow Spirit 18U softball team came up short in a couple of games at the Kearney Klassic tournament on Saturday. The first, against Prodigy 18U, ended in a 1-16 score.
Prodigy scored 9 in the top of the first inning and kept their bat momentum through the game’s three innings, scoring 4 and 3 in the second and third respectively. Broken Bow’s Carli Griffiths scored the lone run for the Spirit. Ruby Russell went 1 for 2 at the plate to lead the Spirit in hits.
Against Northwest Voyagers 18U, Broken Bow’s lone score was in the second inning in an attempt to answer the Voyagers seven scored in the first. The Voyagers would keep their bats hot and put eight runs across the plate in the second inning to total 15 on the scoreboard.
Emma Thronton had the lone hit for the Spirit in the loss. The Voyagers were led by Calleigh Sundberg, who had two hits, scored twice, and tallied 4 RBI.
The Spirit are 3-4 on the season and will wrap up the tournament with one more game on Sunday.
