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Umphres' homer rescues Bat Cats
BAT CATS 3, KANSAS CANNONS 2 — With the Great Bend Bat Cats season on life support, Carson Umphres rode to the rescue.
Umphres launched a 2-run game-winning homer for a shocking 3-2 Jayhawk Collegiate League baseball victory over the Kansas Cannons Sunday.
The Bat Cats (16-13, 15-11 Jayhawk) were down to their last out when Luke Nohinek doubled. Umphres had seen Aiden Nunez's fastball, so he expected a slider.
After back-to-back rainouts, Great Bend's offense was quiet Sunday.
Bat Cats pitchers Elijah Lang and Owen Kaiser stranded a dozen baserunners despite yielding 12 hits with two hit batters and a walk.
Jack Heiberg's single scored Zach Makrewich after a second-inning double for a 1-0 Cannons lead.
Umphres reached on an error and scored on Peanut Brazzle's third-inning double for a 1-1 tie.
Cooper Greene reached base on an error and scored on Owen Baxter's seventh-inning single for a 2-1 lead.
Clutch pitching by Lang and Kaiser limited the Cannons to 2-of-12 batting with runners in scoring position. Shortstop T.J. Shaw and second baseman Kyle Walker turned a sixth-inning double play. Walker relayed to catcher Nohinek to throw out Gustafson on an eighth-inning attempted double steal.
Kansas Cannons 010 000 100 — 2 12 1
GB Bat Cats 001 000 002 — 3 5 1
Furcht, Doty (5), Nunez (9) and Baxter. Lang, Kaiser (7) and Nohinek. W—Kaiser, 1-0. 2B—GB—Nohinek, Brazzle; KC—Munce, Makarewich. HR—GB—Umphres (4).
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