Bee Jay Break Through Late in Win Over Haysville

The Bee Jays saved their best offense for late on their way to a 12-3 win over the Haysville Aviators Wednesday night at Brent Gould Field.  The BJ’s scored 10 in the fifth, sixth, and seventh innings.

Liberal scored two first innings runs.  Caeden Trenkle walked and would score when Cayde Ward grounded to third and reached on an error.  Wilson Ehrhardt bounded a single up the middle to score Ward.  Despite the wind howling out to left, the 2-0 score stood until the fifth when the Bee Jays scored a run when Jack Malone laced a double to left center to score Trenkle.  Bryce Donovan ripped a double off the wall in left to lead off the sixth.  Cade Brewer doubled down the line in left to score a run.  Aiden Shepardson singled home a run.  Nate White grounded out to score a run.  Malone singled home a run for a four run inning and a 7-0 lead.  Ehrhardt doubled with one out in the seventh.  Brewer singled him home.  Shepardson singled and White doubled home a run.  Trenkle lofted a home run into the jet stream and over the wall in left center for a three run home run and a 12-2 lead.

Trenkle was 3-4 with three RBI’s.  Brewer was 3-5 with two RBI’s.  Ehrhardt, Shepardson, and Malone had two hits a piece.  Hayden Arnold pitched five innings with seven strikeouts and no walks.  Arnold allowed just one hit.  Payton Strambler worked a scoreless ninth.  Liberal out hit the Aviators 14-6 while Haysville had two errors and Liberal had one.

The Bee Jays have one five straight and are 5-1.  Haysville is 2-1.  The same two teams meet Thursday night at 7 airing on 1270 and kscbnews.net with the Dugout Show at 6:45.  Yancy Crane is the buyout sponsor.