SEQUIM — Sequim pushed across 11 runs in the final two innings to rally past Chimacum for a 15-4 softball victory.
The Cowboys put up four runs in the third inning to take a 4-1 lead.
The Wolves scored once in the bottom of the third and twice in the fourth to tie the score at 4-4.
Sequim added two more in the fifth before exploding for nine runs in the sixth to put the 10-run rule into effect.
McKenzie Bentz went the distance on the mound for the Wolves (2-0) on Friday, striking out eight in her six innings of work.
Bentz also chipped in at the plate with two hits and three RBIs.
Olivia Kirsch added two hits and four RBIs and Tia Bourm drove in two runs for the Wolves.
Sequim 15, Chimacum 4
Chimacum 0 0 4 0 0 0 — 4 7 0
Sequim 1 0 1 2 2 9 — 15 12 2
WP- M. Bentz; LP- Eldridge
Pitching Statistics
Sequim: Bentz 6 IP, 8 K.
Hitting Statistics
Sequim: Kirsch 2 H, 4 RBI; M. Bentz 2 H, 3 RBI; Bourm 2 RBI; Sparks 4 BB; Clift 3 BB.
Port Angeles 5, South Kitsap 3
PORT ANGELES — Good pitching and clutch hitting carried the Roughriders to a 5-3 win against Class 4A South Kitsap.
“Nizhoni Wheeler pitched a wonderful game, striking out eight and only giving up six hits to a state-contending 4A school,” Port Angeles coach Randy Steinman said of Thursday’s game.
Natalie Steinman tripled to the right-center gap to bring home Taylar Clark and open the scoring for the Riders in the bottom of the third inning.
Steinman later scored on a Jaidyn Larson line drive up the middle. Larson was 3 for 4 on the day for Port Angeles
Sierra Robinson bunted aboard for the Riders in the bottom of the sixth. Lauren Lunt and Wheeler each followed with walks.
Kylee Reed followed with a bases-clearing double to left-center to put Port Angeles ahead for good.
“[Our] defense was stellar and made some amazing plays while playing error-free,” Steinman said.
The Riders’ two Saturday games at White River and Sumner were postponed.
Port Angeles (2-0) visits Chimacum (2-1) on Wednesday.
Port Angeles 5, South Kitsap 3
South Kitsap 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 — 3 6 1
Port Angeles 0 0 2 0 0 3 x — 5 11 0
WP- Nizhoni Wheeler (2-0); LP- Cermak
Pitching Statistics
South Kitsap: Cermak 11 H, 5 ER, 3 BB, 4 K.
Port Angeles: Wheeler 7 IP, 6 H, 3 ER, 4 BB, 8 K.
Hitting Statistics
Port Angeles: Larson 3-4, RBI; Lunt 1-2, 3B, R; Steinman 1-2, 3B, RBI, R; Reed 1-1, 2B, 3 RBI.
Tenino 7, 10, Forks 4, 11 (doubleheader)
TENINO — The Spartans split an Evergreen League doubleheader with the Beavers.
Forks dropped the first contest despite a 10-strikeout performance from pitcher Sabrina Collins.
Halle Palmer hit an inside-the-park home run, Sarah Adams doubled and Hailey Engeseth and Esther Nguyen both singled for the Spartans (1-1).
Engeseth picked up the win on the mound in the second game, striking out five Tenino batters.
“Once the bats started to heat up, we starting flowing as a team,” Forks coach Avery Underhill said.
“Bailey Queen was a huge hitter the second game, going 3 for 3 with two doubles and an RBI.”
Adams was 2 for 4 with three RBIs, and Collins was 2 for 3 with two RBIs.
“I’m proud of the way these girls stepped up out of a loss and came back to take it in the second game,” Underhill said.
Baseball
Sequim 13, Chimacum 0, 5 innings
SEQUIM — Pitchers Gavin Velarde and Logan Hankinson combined on a two-hit shutout as the Wolves rolled past the Cowboys.
Sequim (3-0) jumped on Chimacum (0-3) early in Friday’s game, plating five in the first inning and three in the third.
Velarde was 2 for 3 with two RBIs and two runs.
Evan Hurn was 2 for 2 with a bases-clearing triple, and James Grubb batted 2 for 2 with three runs.
Sequim 13, Chimacum 0, 5 innings
Chimacum 0 0 0 0 0 — 0 2 0
Sequim 5 0 3 5 x — 13 13 0
WP- Velarde
Pitching Statistics
Sequim: Velarde 3 IP, H, BB, 3 K; Hankinson 2 IP, H, K.
Hitting Statistics
Chimacum: Dowling 1-2; Lovekamp 1-2.
Sequim: Velarde 2-3, 2 RBI, 2 R; Grubb 2-3, 2B, 3 R; Dennis 1-2, 2 RBI, R; Bates 1-3, RBI, R; Hurn 2-2, 3B, 2 RBI.
Tenino takes two from Forks
TENINO — The Spartans spent their first week of the regular season driving to Tenino and back, and dropped a pair of Evergreen league baseball tilts in the process.
Forks played its regularly scheduled season opener Tuesday, losing 18-2 in Tenino, and then Thursday rain on the West End forced the Spartans back on the road where they absorbed a 16-3 loss to the slap-happy Beavers.
Tenino came out swinging hot bats in Tuesday’s game and put up two runs in the first inning on a Greigh Hill home run, and then added five more runs in the second frame, including another two-run shot by Hill.
The Beavers added seven more runs during the third inning to put the game safely out of reach.
Caleb Adams, Reece Blattner and Parker Browning shouldered the pitching burden for Forks.
On the mound for Tenino was southpaw Kaleb Strawn, who kept the Spartans in check for the duration of the five inning contest with a firm fastball and a hiccup curveball that became more effective as the game progressed.
Adams and Billy Palmer scored Forks’ only runs of the contest in the fourth inning on an RBI single from Blattner.
Fastino Farias, Browning and Palmer all added hits for Forks.
“It’s always tough to lose a game like that, but I feel like our guys never gave up,” Forks coach Wayne Daman said after the game.
“We played hard from the first pitch to the last pitch.”
Pesky rain storms on the West End on Thursday forced the Spartans to make a long return trip to Tenino.
Spartans senior hurler Javier Contreras was able to keep the Beavers bats at bay in the first inning, but the wheels came off the cart entirely in the second inning thanks in part to a highly contentious call by the umpire crew.
With Beavers runners on first and third base, Contreras made a first-to-third pickoff move and caught the runner at first base wandering into no-man’s land.
Contreras gave up the ball to his shortstop, who orchestrated a rundown in which the runner was tagged out.
Tenino’s first base coach hollered that a balk had been committed and play on the field slowed, confusion set in and the umpires remained silent.
During the hubbub, the runner from third base wandered in to score and remained standing squarely on home plate while a long discussion ensued on the field between Daman and the umpires.
Although none of the umpires had audibly called a balk during the play, they belatedly decided to enforce a balk, saying that the first-to-third pick move had been outlawed at the professional level last year and it had now trickled down to the high school level.
Instead of recording an out and holding the runner at third, the Spartans surrendered an unchecked run and watched as the base runner they had tagged out advanced on the umpires order to second base.
Daman filed an official protest with the home plate umpire after their on-field discussion.
By the conclusion of the inning, however, Tenino had plated its first seven runs of the game as disorientation struck the Spartans.
Zeb Chamberlain led Tenino’s offensive charge, going 3 for 4 with a home run.
Tenino starting pitcher Calvin Guzman allowed three runs in four innings of work, while also going 3 for 4 at the plate.
Blattner went 2 for 3 on the day with two runs scored, Adams went 1 for 3 while managing to be thrown out at home plate despite an impressive leap attempt.
Farias, Ryan McGraw and Garrison Schumack each drove in a run for the Spartans.
The Spartans are still awaiting word on the official ruling on their protest.
Forks (0-2, 0-2) is scheduled to play at Montesano on Tuesday and then host the Bulldogs on Thursday.
Boys Soccer
Sequim, Klahowya play shortened game
SEQUIM — Darkness limited the Wolves and Eagles to one half of soccer after a transformer blew in the lights at Sequim High School before the match.
The 40-minute game ended in a 0-0 tie.
Sequim coach Dave Brasher said Klahowya played better in the first 20 minutes, while the Wolves controlled the second 20 minutes.
Sequim had a nice opportunity on a corner kick by Eli Berg that was headed back across the goal by Thomas Winfield and led to a couple of shot attempts, but the Wolves couldn’t capitalize.
The teams then had a penalty kick shootout for practice.
Sequim made all four of their attempts and the Eagles got only two of four past Wolves goalkeeper Austin Wagner.
Winfield, Berg, Liam Harris and Adrian Espinoza made their attempts for Sequim.
“It goes in the book as a tie, but we probably need to replay it later, but we’ll see how it goes,” Brasher said.
“It’s frustrating when you fail a bond and our facilities are going to crap.”
