OMAHA, Neb. — The Great Bend Bombers 13-and-under baseball team finished runner-up in the 16-team bracket at the AAA/Major Slumpbuster tournament. The field featured 120 teams from across the country.

The No. 31 seeded Bombers (26-13-2) finished 2-2-1 in pool play and entered bracket play against the second-highest ranked team and pulled off three consecutive wins.

The Bombers upset Kalaveras from San Marcos, Calif. 8-4 and lost the championship game 5-4 in 10 innings against another California team.

CALIF. BOMBERS 5, BOMBERS 4 (1ST) — The Greenbrae, Calif. Bombers outlasted Great Bend's Bombers 5-4 in 10 innings. Both teams scored four first-inning runs.

Bombers pitcher Cohen Haberman threw six shutout innings. Kason Stone drove in two runs. Peyton White and Kamden Woods each drove in one run.

BOMBERS 5, NEW JERSEY PRIDE 3 (SEMIFINAL) —  Bomber Kason Stone tripled home Haberman and Landon Green for the game-winning runs.  Colton Staudinger yielded one earned run in six innings. Stone drove home three runs.

BOMBERS 13, NEBRASKA PRIME 0 (QUARTERFINAL) — Bomber Haberman doubled twice and Brody Braymer homered to spark the Bombers past Nebraska Prime. Peyton White doubled and drove home four runs. Keiston Evans-Grant and Braymer each drove home two runs.

Braymer pitched three shutout innings with three strikeouts to earn the victory.

BOMBERS 8, CALIF. KALAVERAZ 4 — The Bombers surprised No. 2 seed Kalaveraz from San Marcos, Calif. 8-4 in the first-round of bracket play. The Bombers scored seven runs in the first two innings.

Stone homered and drove home two runs. Braymer, White and Staudinger each drove home one run, Staudinger, Haberman and White each doubled.

BOMBERS 10, OKLAHOMA EXPRESS 6 — Landon Green drove home five runs with a trio of hits to spark a 17-hit attack. Keiston Evans-Grant and Kamden Woods drove in one run.

BOMBERS 8, ATHLETICS 0 — Bombers pitchers Stone, White, Staudinger and Jordy Meyer combined for a 4-hit shutout.

Green homered, White tripled, and Woods doubled, and all three each drove home two runs. Stone doubled home a run,

BOMBERS 8, JAVELINAS 8 — Braymer's RBI double drove home Meyer with the eventual tying run in an 8-8 tie. Stone and Evans-Grant each drove home runs. 

TITANS, HENDERSON 12, BOMBERS 4 — Stone and Evans-Grant each drove home runs for the Bombers.

CALIF. HAWKS 13, BOMBERS 7 — Stone doubled and drove home a trio of runs. White, Meyer and Stone each drove in a run.

Bombers 400 000 000 0 — 4 9 1

Calif. Bombers 400 000 000 1 — 5 8 0

Evans-Grant, Haberman (3), Meyer (9) and Kason Stone. 2B—B—White. 3B—B—Stone.

Bombers 000 320 — 5 8 1

N.J. Pride 120 000 — 3 5 2

Staudinger and Stone. W—Staudinger. 2B—B—Evans-Grant. 3B—B—Stone.

Bombers 03 108 — 13 17 2

Nebraska Prime 000 000 — 0 4 2

White, Braymer (3), Haberman (6) and Stone. W—Brayner. 2B—B—Haberman 2,  Woods, Stone, Green,  White. HR—B—Braymer.

Bombers 431 000 — 8 10 0 

Calif. Kalaveraz 010 030 — 4 4 0

Stone, White (4) and Braymer.  W—Stone. 2B—B—Haberman, Staudinger, White. HR—B—Stone.

Bombers 121 120 1 — 8 9 1

Athletics 000 000 0 — 0 4 3

Stone, White (4), Staudinger (5),  Meyer (6) and Braymer. 2B—B—Woods, Stone. Evans-Grant 3B—B—White. HR—Green.

Oklahoma Express 200 004 0 — 6 5 2

Bombers 024 400 x — 10 14 1

Meyer, Green (6), White (7) and Stone.  W—Meyer. 2B—Woods, Stone. HR—B—Green, Evans-Grant. 

Bombers 420 100 1 — 8 14 2

Javelinas 700 000 1 — 8 7 0

Haberman, Braymer (2) and Stone. 2B—B—Braymer, Haberman, White. 3B—B—Stone.

Bombers 102 001 — 4 2 6

Titans 223 023 — 12 13 3

Brayner, Karlin (2), Meyer (6) and Woods. L—Braymer.  

Calif. Hawks 125 05 — 13 8 4

Bombers 002 05 — 7 7 4

Evans-Grant, Woods (2), Green (5) and Braymer. L—Evans-Grant. 2B—B—Stone, Staundinger,  Woods.