Alpine Cowboys Shut Out Garden City Wind 7-0 July 12 2017

July 12 2017 The Alpine Cowboys defeated the Garden City Wind 7-0 behind a dominant pitching performance from Christian Flecha. Alpine collected 10 hits and held Garden City to four hits while improving to 43-18. The Wind fell to 20-43.

Alpine broke a scoreless tie with two runs in the third inning, added three in the seventh and scored twice in the ninth. The Cowboys also took advantage of a home run from B. Pugh, who went 3-for-3 with a walk, two runs and three RBIs. Crisford Adames added two hits and three RBIs, while Angel Martinez had two hits and scored three runs. JJ Graham contributed a hit and an RBI.

Flecha earned the win by allowing four hits and one walk over eight scoreless innings, striking out six while throwing 79 of 125 pitches for strikes. Luke Wiechec completed the shutout with a scoreless ninth inning.

Casey Collins took the loss for Garden City after allowing eight hits and five runs over 6.2 innings, with two runs charged as earned. Ryan Harper, Trent Lunsford and J. Kortessis finished in relief for the Wind.