AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL: Wilder Senior no-hits Colts White to open Dick Brown Firecracker tournament

Win 21-0

PORT ANGELES — Wilder Baseball Club’s Senior and Junior squads opened the annual Dick Brown Memorial Firecracker Classic with decidedly different results.

The Senior squad tossed a five-inning no-hitter against Colts White, an international team, in a 21-0 shellacking, while the Junior team’s five-game winning streak was snapped in an 11-6 loss to Colts Black.

Sequim’s Ethan Staples earned the win on the mound, going three innings with three strikeouts and one walk.

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Bryant Laboy closed out the final two innings, allowing one walk along with one strikeout.

Colton Romero and Rylan Politika were the big boppers offensively for Wilder Senior.

Romero was 3-for-3 with a walk, five RBIs and scored two runs while Politika was 2-for-3 with a sacrifice fly, a double and four RBIs.

Braydan White drove in a pair of runs, and Tate Alton added an RBI double in his lone plate appearance.

Wilder Senior faces Lakeside BR tonight in Red Division play at 7 p.m. at Civic Field.

Wilder Junior spotted Colts Black a seven-run lead before getting on the board with a three-run third.

Carson Waddell led off with a bunt and was swapped out on the base paths for Owen Leitz.

A Brandt Perry double to left moved Leitz to third, and he was brought in on Bryce DeLeon’s RBI single to right field.

DeLeon then stole second during Lincoln Bear’s at-bat. Perry scored on Bear’s ground-ball single, and DeLeon came home on an error.

Waddell later came through with a bases-loaded sacrifice bunt to score Carston Seibel and cut the score to 10-4 Colts Black.

Seibel added an RBI ground out and Leitz drove in Bear with an RBI single in Wilder Junior’s last turn at the plate.

Wilder Junior play at 9 a.m. today against CBC Green at Volunteer Field.