Bombers Baseball 16U competed in the 18U Kansas Wood Bat State Championship. One of the draws to the tournament was getting to play the championship on Riverfront Stadium in Wichita. The state tournament consisted of two pool play games followed by a double elimination bracket. The team went 1-1 in pool play games and took the 5 seed out of seven teams traveling in from surrounding Kansas and Oklahoma communities.
Bombers lost their first game in bracket play and started the lower bracket journey back to the championship game by winning their next three games. Ultimately, the team lost 3-0 in the Championship game after playing their third straight game.
The team’s hitters batted .287 with wood bats. Bombers used 10 pitchers to keep opponents’ hitters at .229 for the tournament.
Coach Chris Umphres stated, “Great experience for these boys getting to play at such a nice facility. Playing in a five-day tournament can be a grind. Pitchers and defense did a great job. Hitters probably swung the wood bats better than the stats show. The hitters were on fire and hit many balls hard right at the defense all tournament. They were disappointed losing the championship game 3-0 but everyone at that game saw that we just couldn’t catch a break. A couple plays cost us some runs but we really hit the ball well enough to win that game.”
Bombers are off this next weekend and are entered to play in a tournament at University of Kansas the following weekend.