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Garden City defeats Trinidad 5-3 to even the series behind Willie Ethington and Connor Kelly

8/5/2016-Garden City Wind 5 Trinidad Triggers 3 Garden City, Kansas-The Garden City Wind evened the three games series at a game a piece with the Trinidad Triggers on Thursday Night. connor Kelly pitched 7 innings for the Wind allowing 3 runs while striking out 6. Charles Bahn pitched a scoreless 8th and Chris Gammon closed the 9th to preserve the win. Christian Schneider pitched 5-2/3 innings for the Triggers allowing 5 runs. Scott Stonestreet came on in the 6th inning to escape the inning without allowing a run. Dominic Monda pitched 1-2/3 innings of scoreless ball. Carl Brice came on to get the last out in the 8th inning for the Triggers.

John Nicholson continued to carry the hot bat for the Triggers he hit a two run homer in the 2nd. Willie Ethington hit a huge 3 run homer in the 6th. Manny Colon followed him with a solo homer of his own to give the Wind a 5-2 lead. The Triggers would score one run in the 7th but that would be the end of the scoring.

The two teams will connect for the third and deciding game of the three game series tonight in Garden City. The winner will travel to face the winner of Roswell and Tucson for the Pecos League Championship.
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TRI    3   6   0 
GCK    5   12   0