Buffaloes split with West on senior night

Garden City, KS(westernkansasnews.com) The Garden City High School baseball team split a double header with Wichita West Thursday, losing the first game 3-2 in eight innings and rallying to win the second game 4-3.

Game one

Cooper Thayer and Treven Veltman squared off in a pitchers duel that required an extra inning to settle. Veltman pitched 5 innings for West allowing just one run and three hits, while striking out five. Thayer pitched 6.1 innings surrendering two runs on five hits. It was the relief pitchers that got the decisions though, Tre Hungria surrendered the lead for West in the bottom of the seventh on an RBI single by David Sandoval that tied the game at 2. Hungria went 3 innings and gave up one run on five hits, getting the win. Austin Waetzig got the loss for Garden City pitching 1.2 innings and allowing one run on one hit.

Veltman also led the Pioneers(12-8) at the plate going 2-4 with two RBI, including the winning RBI on a fielders choice in the eighth inning. Thayer went 2-4 for the Buffaloes with a pair of singles.

Game two

The game remained scoreless for two innings until the top of the third when Steve Ramos led off for West with a double, then later came around to score a wild pitch to make it 1-0. The Pioneers added two more runs in the fourth on an RBI groundout by Hungria and an RBI single by Veltman making it 3-0. Garden City got on the board in the bottom half with an RBI single by Elier Arreola to make it 3-1. The score remained until the bottom of the seventh where the Buffaloes rallied again. Isaiah Ramos and Caedyn Gomez both reached on errors to lead off the inning, Andrew Kreutzer then tied the game with a two RBI single. Kreutzer then moved to second when Thayer hit into a fielders choice, David Arteaga would follow with a walk putting runners on first and second with one out. Waetzig then hit a grounder to second, West successfully got the runner at second, but the throw from the shortstop Veltman to first trying to turn a double play was off the mark allowing Kreutzer to score the winning run.

Arreola got the win for the Buffaloes pitching the final 3.2 innings allowing no run and two hits. Kreutzer led Garden City in batting going 2-3 with two RBI.

In between the two games the Buffaloes honored seniors Isaiah Ramos, David Arteaga, Lance Allred, Jacob Guerrero, Andrew Kreutzer, Carson Scheeter, Kris Henderson, David Sandoval and Jacob Griffin.

Garden City(5-15) finishes the regular season as the 11 seed in 6A west and will play on the road in the first round of the playoffs next week.