Lions hungry at bat in Cal Ripken baseball victory
PORT ANGELES — Lions scored 13 runs on 11 hits to take down Elks 13-4 in Cal Ripken Majors baseball action this week.
Elks opened the scoring in the bottom of the first on an RBI triple by Tanner Jacobson.
Lions countered in the second inning when Elijah Dujue’ hit a line-drive double to left, stole third and scored on an errant pick-off attempt.
Later, Isiah Cox doubled to score Kai Ferguson and Cox eventually came home on a passed ball.
Ferguson later added a two-run single.
Lions scored seven runs in the fifth on a number of walks, a single by Kason Albaugh and doubles by Payton King and .
King led the team with three RBIs and Dujue’ and Ferguson drove in a pair apiece.
Kaleb Mullen doubled and Weston Alward singled for Elks.
Eagles top Rotary
PORT ANGELES — Eagles took down Norwester Rotary 9-7 in recent Cal Ripken Majors action.
Kaeden Indelicato went 2 for 4 and provided exceptional defense at catcher, including making two tag-out plays at home plate for Eagles.
Cole Johnson added to Eagles’ attack by hitting a ground-rule double.
Easton Merrit had a strong performance on the mound going 3 innings and Scotty Bates came on in relief and went 2.2 innings on the hill. Merritt reentered the game as pitcher to record the final out.
Phoenix Flores went 2 for 3 at bat to lead Rotary.
Kiwanis outslugs KONP
PORT ANGELES — Kiwanis outlasted KONP 16-12 in a 16U softball slugfest.
Jada Cargo-Acosta slammed a two-run triple to the left-field fence to score Amaris Martinez and Elizabeth Groff to highlight a big first inning for Kiwanis.
Isabelle Cottam added an RBI infield single and later scored on Nevaeh Selvidge’s RBI single.
KONP answered back with a two-run single by Aiesha Mathis to score Kloe Stanard and Savanah Bret, but Mathis was thrown out at first when left fielder Anna Brandt threw to Cottam who fired the ball to first.
Standard answered with an RBI single scoring Jeannette Cary-Dewater who had singled.
Trailing 11-3, KONP batted around in the bottom of the fifth, scoring five runs as Kiwanis committed four errors.
Kiwanis added five runs in the top of the sixth to go up 16-8.
Groff went all six innings on the mound for Kiwanis.
Tranco edges Jim’s
PORT ANGELES — Tranco (8-0) held off Jim’s Pharmacy 7-6 in 12U softball action.
Grace Roening and Teagan Clark split pitching duties for Tranco.
Roening struck out five, while allowing three hits and three walks. Clark also had five strikeouts, while walking three and giving up four hits.
Clark allowed runners to reach second and third with one out in the final frame, but closed out the game with a pair of strikeouts.
Halberg opened the scoring by driving in Zoe Smithson with an RBI single.
Jim’s came back and tied it up with Jaeda Elofson crossing the plate from a single RBI by Taylor Worthington.
Clark hit a two-run home run to right field to score Halberg in the top of the third.
Jim’s came back to score four runs on hits by Anne and Jasmine Messinger and errors by Tranco.
Tranco’s big inning came in the fifth. Zoe Smithson bashed an RBI triple to score Taylor Moses, and Halberg and Roening each doubled and scored to take a 7-5 lead.
Jim’s Anne Edwards tripled and scored on an error in the bottom of the fifth to trim the lead to 7-6. Jim’s threatened to tie the game, but Smithson made a throw to Halberg at home to tag out the potential tying run and Halberg then got a Jim’s base runner in a pickle to end the inning.
Edwards went the distance for Jim’s, tossing six strikeouts, while yielding five walks and seven hits.
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