Alpine Cowboys Rally Past Garden City Wind 12-9

June 8 2024 The Alpine Cowboys defeated the Garden City Wind 12-9 at Kokernot Field, overcoming a nine-hit performance by Garden City with 14 hits of their own. Alpine also capitalized on three Garden City errors while playing errorless baseball. Alpine broke through with an eight-run second inning to take an 8-0 lead. Garden City answered with three runs in the third, then added single runs in the fourth and seventh innings and two more in the fifth. The Cowboys added one run in the sixth and three in the seventh to lead 12-7 before the Wind scored twice in the ninth. Drake Angeron went 2-for-4 with two runs and two RBI for Alpine, while AJ Folds and Josh Rego each collected two hits. Tommy Kretzler drove in two runs, and Sam Russell added a two-RBI hit. Garden Citys Jordan Williams went 2-for-5 with two runs and two RBI, and Jacob Talamante reached base four times with a hit, three walks, one run and one RBI. Jonathan Fleckenstein earned the win after allowing two hits and no earned runs in 2.2 innings. Jesse Garcia recorded the save with two scoreless innings and two strikeouts. Garden City starter Mark Dozier took the loss after surrendering eight earned runs in 1.1 innings, while Johnny Garza held Alpine scoreless over 3.2 innings of relief.