Broncos Shut Out Bee Jays

For the first time this season, the Liberal Bee Jays were shut out. The El Dorado Broncos and their starting pitcher Brandon Hicks shut out Liberal 2-0 Thursday night at McDonald Stadium in El Dorado. The BJ’s had four hits. Alejandro Carmona kept the Bee Jays in the game on the mound. He pitched six innings allowing two runs and Matt Hape went two shutout innings in relief.

The Broncos scored one in the second but loaded the bases with no outs. A come backer which turned into a 1-2-3 double play helped Carmona out of the inning. El Dorado scored again in the seventh. The only inning in which the BJ’s had multiple base runners was the ninth when they had first and second with one out but didn’t score.

Liberal is 12-5 and 8-4 in the Jayhawk and El a Dorado is 9-3 and 6-3 in the Jayhawk. The same two teams meet Friday night at 7 in El Dorado with the Dugout Show at 6:45 on 1270 and kscbnews.net.