CHIMACUM — Cole Dotson threw a complete-game three-hitter and drove home the tying and winning runs as Chimacum beat out Klahowya for a district baseball playoff bye with a 3-2 win Friday in the season’s rubber match between the two Olympic League 1A squads.
Dotson also threw a three-hitter against the Eagles last week in the Cowboys’ 3-1 win.
“The entire team played pretty well,” Cowboys coach Bob Eldridge said. “The fact that we got behind 2-0 and came back. I’m pretty proud of them.”
The Cowboys committed two errors and spotted Klahowya two runs in the third inning, but came back in the home half to plate all three runs in the win.
Gavin Lawson singled with one out in the bottom of the third to get things in gear for Chimacum.
Issac Purser followed with a single and Henry Brebberman’s line drive to left field was misplayed, driving in Lawson and sending Purser to third and Brebberman to second.
Dotson then roped a line drive two-run single to right field to put the Cowboys up 3-2.
Dotson was stellar on the mound the rest of the way. He finished with 10 strikeouts while walking one and hitting a batter.
“Cole pitched really well,” Eldridge said. “We should have got out of the third inning without [giving up] any runs but we made an error and that will happen. Cole mixed everything up pretty well. He got into a groove. That was huge for us.”
Eldridge said he gives Dotson and catcher Jonah Diehl free range out on the field.
“I don’t call the pitches for him, he’s been a starter since he was a freshman and he’s got plenty of experience,” Eldridge said.
“The catcher [Diehl] will give him signals and he’ll shake him off if he doesn’t like that pitch. Cole throws a fastball, a curve and will throw a knuckleball every now and then that really fouls with [batters’] minds.”
Eldridge said his club had players fill in at a couple of spots in the win.
“We were missing a couple of starters, had to fill in at a couple spots. Clayton Smith our freshman came in and had to get under a long fly ball in center and Ben Preston, who normally plays right field, filled in at third base.”
“We hit the ball pretty hard yesterday. Isaac had two or three really hard hit balls, only one of them for a hit, but at least he’s hitting it hard.”
Chimacum (2-1, 7-8) will host Nisqually League foe Vashon to close out the regular season on Wednesday.
The Cowboys will open the playoffs against the Nisqually No. 2 at Curtis High School in University Place at 4 p.m. Tuesday, May 7.
Chimacum 3, Klahowya 2
Klah. 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 — 2 3 2
Chim. 0 0 3 0 0 0 X— 3 5 2
WP: Dotson LP: Lawson
Pitching
Klahowya — Lawson 3IP, 4H, 3R, ER, 2K; Gagnon 3IP, H, 3BB, 4K.
Chimacum — Dotson 7IP, 3H, 2R, BB,HB, 10K.
Hitting
Klahowya — Williamson 1-3, R; Mjor 2-3, RBI; Prater 0-3, ROE, RBI.
Chimacum — Dotson 1-3, 2SB, 2RBI; Smith 1-3, SB; Brebberman 1-2, R, BB; Purser 1-3, R; Lawson 1-2, R.
Port Angeles 14, Olympic 4
BREMERTON — The Roughriders roughed up the Trojans’ pitching staff, pounding out 18 hits, including six extra-base hits by six different players in Friday’s win.
Port Angeles broke open a 3-3 tie with five runs in the fifth highlighted by an RBI triple by Wyatt Hall followed by Tyler Bowen’s RBI double.
The Riders added four more in the sixth to take a commanding 12-3 lead.
Gavin Guerrero walked, reached third on Ethan Flodstrom’s double to center and scored on Bo Bradow’s single to short.
Lucas Jarnagin brought home Flodstrom on a double to center. After an out, Andrew Pena drove in Bradow on a single to left field and Jarnagin eventually came home on a single by Bowen.
Timmy Adams was effective in relief, allowing one earned run in 3.2 innings on three hits and two walks while striking out a pair.
Port Angeles (10-0, 14-3) can repeat as Olympic League champions with a win over North Kitsap (10-1, 15-4) at Civic Field at 4:15 p.m. Monday.
Port Angeles 14, Olympic 4
PA1 0 1 1 5 4 2 — 14 18 1
Oly1 2 0 0 0 1 0— 4 7 3
WP: Adams
Pitching
Port Angeles — J. Seibel 3.1IP, 4H, 3R, 2ER, 4BB, 6K; Adams 3.2IP, 3H, ER, 2BB, 2K.
Hitting
Port Angeles — Basden 3-4, SB, 2R, 2B, RBI; Hall 1-3, R, 3B, 2RBI; Flodstrom 2-4, 4R,BB, 2B; Jarnagin 1-1, R, 2B, RBI; Bradow 2-4, R, 2B 2RBI; Lunt 1-2, SB, R, RBI; Guerrero 0-4, BB, 2SB, 2R;Bowen 2-5, 2B, 2RBI; Merritt 2-3; Whitman 1-4, R, RBI; Scofield 1-1, R,; Wood 1-5.
Softball Port Angeles 10, Olympic 7
BREMERTON — The Riders held the powerful Trojans offense six runs off their season average in a huge Olympic League 2A Division win on Friday.
Port Angeles fell 14-12 to Olympic in the team’s first meeting on April 10.
Cleanup hitter Jada Cargo-Acosta swung a big bat for the Riders going 2 for 3 with a home run, three RBIs and three runs.
Freshman Zoe Smithson tripled, singled and scored twice and classmate Peyton Rudd doubled twice scored two runs.
Madi Roening also doubled, singled, scored twice and drove in a run for Port Angeles (5-2, 7-5).
Ava Brenkman also added two hits and an RBI in the win.
Kiana Watson-Charles struck out five on the mound.
The second-place Riders visit Olympic League-leading North Kitsap (9-1, 11-3) on Monday. Port Angeles beat North Kitsap 9-1 on April 12.
Port Angeles 10, Olympic 7
PA 3 0 3 0 1 3 0 — 10 13 1
Oly 2 1 1 0 2 0 1 — 7 9 3
WP: Watson-Charles
Pitching
Port Angeles — Watson-Charles 7IP, 7R, 9H, HB, BB, 5K.
Hitting
Port Angeles — O’Connor 3-5, R,; Smithson 2-5, 2R, 3B; Roening 2-5, 2R, 2B, RBI; Cargo-Acosta 2-3 3R, HBP, HR, 3RBI; Rudd 2-4, 2R, 2 2B; Brenkman 2-5, RBI.
Quilcene wins big
QUILCENE — Quilcene’s McKenzie Kieffer and Natalie Coffey each hit two-run home runs in the first inning, helping to stake the Rangers to a 14-1 lead in the first inning on their way to a monster doubleheader rout of Evergreen Lutheran.
The Rangers won Game 1 24-2 and Game 2 24-3 in Friday’s sweep, going to 5-0 in Sea-Tac 1B League play. Quilcene had 38 hits in the doubleheader.
Madison Coffey joined in the hit parade in Game 1, going 3 for 4 and scoring four runs, while Marissa Kieffer also drove in four runs.
“I think we can be a real good hitting team. Unfortunately we just haven’t faced good pitching this year so it’s still a question for me on where we are at offensively,” said coach Mark Thompson.
Kayla Ward pitched a complete game two-hitter, striking out five while giving up one earned run. Defensively, after the first Eagle’s hitter reached on a two-base error, the Rangers settled down and made no mistakes.
“Everybody knows pitching and defense are the keys to success in this game. For us we have improved 500 percent in those areas from our first three games,” Thompson said.
In Game 2, Madison Coffey went 5 for 5, including two home runs, and drove in six runs to lead the Rangers. Marissa Kieffer went 4 for 4 with a double, a triple and four RBI, and Natalie Coffey continued her hot hitting, going 4 for 5 with a double and two RBI. Contributing to the Rangers’s huge day was lead-off hitter Brittney Beukes, who reached base all 10 plate appearances during the day’s doubleheader.
Beukes also pitched her first complete game of the year, striking out three while giving up no earned runs.
“Brittney is so important to our team in all facets of the game. She gets on base and scores runs, she pitches, and she makes plays in the field; definitely the glue that holds our team together,” Thompson said.
Quilcene (5-0, 8-3) next plays at Wishkah Valley on Tuesday.
Quilcene 24, Evergreen Luth. 2
EL 1 0 0 0 1 — 2 2 5
Quilcene (14) 3 6 1 x — 24 13 1
WP: Ward
Pitching
Quilcene — Ward 5IP, 1ER, 2H, 3K.
Hitting
Quilcene — Natalie Coffey: 2-3, HR, 4RBI; Madison Coffey: 3-4, 4R; Marissa Kieffer: 2-3, 4RBI; McKenzie Kieffer: 2-3 HR, 4RBI; Lauren McCarthy: 1-2, 2B, 4RBI.
Quilcene 24, Evergreen Luth. 3
Quilcene (10) 1 4 2 7 — 24 25 5
EL 0 0 0 2 1 — 3 3 6
WP: Beukes
Pitching
Quilcene — Beukes 5IP, 3H, 3K.
Hitting
Quilcene — Beukes 3-5, 4R; N. Coffey 4-5, 2B, 2RBI; M. Coffey 5-5, 2HR, 6RBI, 4R; Marissa Kieffer 4-4, 2B, 3B, 4RBI; A. Jones 2-2, RBI; McBride 3-5, 2B, RBI; Scholz 2-3, 2B RBI.
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