Forks’ Walker Rondeau steals second while Ilwaco’s Ethan Hopkins awaits the throw during the first game of a doubleheader at Fred Orr Memorial Field in Beaver. (Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News)

Forks’ Walker Rondeau steals second while Ilwaco’s Ethan Hopkins awaits the throw during the first game of a doubleheader at Fred Orr Memorial Field in Beaver. (Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News)

PREP ROUNDUP: Forks baseball stays unbeaten with doubleheader sweep; Port Angeles tennis rolls past rival Sequim

Spartans tally 24 hits across pair of games

BEAVER — Forks reeled in a pair of Pacific League baseball victories in a doubleheader sweep of Ilwaco, dumping the Fishermen 19-5 in five innings in game one and holding on for a 14-12 victory in the nightcap at Fred Orr Memorial Ballfield on Wednesday.

The Spartans improved to 5-0 on the young season with the sweep.

In game one, Forks quickly spotted Ilwaco a three-run lead but rallied back with a torrent of runs in the home half of the first and second innings.

Singles by Riley Pursely and Logan Olson drove in runs in the seven-run first, while extra-base hits led to a nine-run second inning.

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Aiden Salazar got things going with a two-run double, Keaton Northcut followed up by doubling home Salazar and Pursely drove home two on an infield single.

Urvina picked up the win on the hill, allowing three runs on two hits and four walks in three innings with a pair of strikeouts.

Logan Olson earned the save.

Olson stayed on the mound for the second game and went three innings, allowing one run on a hit and a two walks while striking out four.

Ryan Rancourt’s two-run double in the top of the third added to a pair of first-inning sacrifice flies by Pursely and Urvina, plus a steal of home by Gunner Rogers and an RBI infield single by Dylan Micheau, for a 6-0 Forks lead.

Rogers scored runs by stealing home in each game for Forks.

The Spartans played some small ball to add five more runs in the fourth, highlighted by Kaleb Blanton’s two-run single.

Olson gave way to Rogers after three innings and Ilwaco lit him up for 10 runs, four earned, to rally back and trail 11-10.

Rogers added a sacrifice fly to score the eventual winning run in the top of the sixth.

Dalton Kilmer closed out the game, allowing one run in the final frame.

Forks is off until an April 9 nonleague contest at Kittitas.

Game 1

Forks 19, Ilwaco 5, 5 innings

I 3 0 0 0 2 — 5 5 3

F 7 9 3 0 X — 19 14 1

WP: Urvina SV: Olson

Pitching

Forks: Urvina 3 IP, 2 H, 3 ER, 4 BB, 2 K; Olson 2 IP, 3 H, 2 ER, BB, K.

Hitting

Forks: Rogers 2-3, 2 2B, 2 R, 2 RBI; Urvina 2-2, R, 3 RBI; Olson 2-3, 2 R, RBI; Rancourt 2-4, 2B, 2 R, RBI; Salazar 1-2, 2B, R, 3 RBI; Pursely 2-4, 2 R, 3 RBI; Northcut 1-1, 2B, 3 R, RBI.

Game 2

Forks 14, Ilwaco 12

F 4 0 2 5 0 2 1 — 14 10 2

I 0 0 1 2 7 1 1 — 12 10 4

WP: Olson SV: Kilmer

Pitching

Forks: Olson 3 IP, H, R, 2 BB, 4 K; Rogers 3 IP, 9 H, 10 R, 4 ER, 4 BB; Kilmer IP, 0 H, R, BB, K.

Hitting

Forks: Salazar 2-3, 2 BB, 3 R; Rancourt 1-2, 2B, 2 RBI; Olson 1-4, 2B, 2 BB, 2 R, RBI; Kilmer 1-2, 3 BB, 2 R; Micheau 1-3, BB, 2 R, RBI; Blanton 1-3, R, RBI; Wheeler 2-3, R, 2 RBI.

Girls Tennis

Riders on a roll

PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles enters spring break on a roll after taking down rival Sequim 6-1 and sweeping Kingston 7-0 in consecutive Olympic League matches this week.

The match between the Roughriders and Wolves was competitive, with no straight-set wins for either squad.

Port Angeles’ top doubles team of Angelina Sprague and Waverly Mead were named the players of the match by coach Stephanie Gochnour for their play in a back-and-forth 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 defeat against the Wolves’ Jordan Hegtvedt and Malory Morey.

The Riders’ singles squad yielded just one game in three match wins over the Buccaneers.

Gochnour said the No. 3 doubles pairing of Olivia Carroll and Bella Artis were the players of the match after rallying for a 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 win.

Port Angeles (2-2) is off until a home match against Bremerton on April 11.

Sequim (3-1) returns April 13 for an away match against Bremerton.

Port Angeles 6, Sequim 1

Singles

No. 1: Liberty Lauer (PA) def. Alexis Gale 6-2,6-3.

No. 2: Hannah Basden (PA) def. Aidyn Shingleton 6-2, 6-1.

No. 3: Shannon Callahan (PA) vs. Kathrine Gould 6-0, 6-2.

Doubles

No. 1: Jordan Hegtvedt/Malory Morey (S) def. Waverly Mead/Angelina Sprague 3-6, 6-4, 6-3.

No. 2: Cindy Liang/Kinnley Brady (PA) def. Sydney Hegtvedt/Danielle Herman 6-0, 6-2.

No. 3: Bella Artis/Olivia Carroll (PA) def. Taylor Heyting/Peyton Smithson 6-2, 6-3.

No. 4: Gweneth Van Blair/Gillian Wolfe (PA) def. Kimberly Heinte/Keira Morey 6-1, 6-0.

Port Angeles 7, Kingston 0

Singles

No. 1: Liberty Lauer (PA) def. Alissa Doyle 6-0, 6-0.

No. 2: Hannah Basden (PA) def. Marissa Gomez 6-0, 6-0.

No. 3: Shannon Callahan (PA) def. Audrey Collier 6-0, 6-1.

Doubles

No. 1: Waverly Mead/Angelina Sprague (PA) def. Tanya Caldera/Kim Sandstrom 6-2, 6-0.

No. 2: Cindy Liang/Kinnley Brady (PA) def. Kylie Sandstrom/Kate McCabe 6-4, 6-3.

No. 3: Bella Artis/Olivia Carroll (PA) def. Monique Desouza/Aubrey Black 4-6, 6-2, 6-4.

No. 4 Gweneth Van Blair/Celeste Tucker (PA) def. Jada Williams/Kianna Clay 6-2, 6-1.

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