SPORTS: Port Angeles sweeps Port Townsend in baseball and softball; other prep reports

PORT TOWNSEND — Port Angeles scored 10 runs in the third inning to beat winless Port Townsend 14-1 in an Olympic League baseball game Monday.

The Roughriders, 5-4 in league and overall, were leading 4-0 when they exploded for the double-digit runs to win by mercy rule.

The Redskins fell to 0-7 in league and 0-8 overall.

Brian Senf, Daniel Pitz and Derek Crain combined for a two-hitter with Senf (2-1) picking up the win, fanning four while allowing no runs or hits in two innings.

Crain perfect at-bat

Crain, who pitched the final inning, went 3-for-3 with a double, two RBIs, two runs scored and a sacrifice fly.

A.J. Konopaski had four RBIs. He went 2-for-2 with a run scored and a walk.

The Riders now take on league-leading North Kitsap (8-2) today at Volunteer Field.

The Vikings beat Sequim 12-6 on Monday.

Port Angeles 14, Port Townsend 1, 
5 innings

Port Angeles 1 3 10 0 0 x x ­— 14 9 0

Port Townsend 0 0 1 0 0 x x — 1 2 2

WP- Senf (2-1)

Pitching Statistics

Port Angeles: Senf, 2IP, 4K, 2BB, 0H, 0R; Pitz, 2IP, 2H, 1R, 3K, 0BB; Crain, 1IP, 1K, 0H.

Hitting Statistics

Port Angeles: Crain, 3-3, 2B, 2R, 2RBIs, SF; Konopaski, 2-2, 4RBIs, R, BB.

North Kitsap 12, Sequim 6

POULSBO — The Vikings knocked the Wolves out of first place in the Olympic League on Monday.

North Kitsap, tied with Sequim and Kingston for first place going into the game, scored eight times in the first inning after the Wolves had went ahead 3-0 in the top of the first.

It was a sloppy game for Sequim with five errors, most of them in the first inning as the Vikings had only one earned run in the eight they scored.

Starting pitcher Drew Rickerson went just one-third of an inning, giving up the one earned one on five hits and a walk.

Jake Hudson pitched the remaining 5 2/3 innings, also giving up an earned run (four runs total) on seven hits and two walks.

All-Olympic pitcher Alex Smith of North Kitsap picked up the win, allowing six runs in six innings with four strikeouts while walking three.

Weston Royall led the Sequim hitting, going 2-for-3 with a two-run homer while Karsten Wake went 1-for-2 with two RBIs and Isaac Yamamoto went 1-for-2 with an RBI, run and two walks.

The Vikings noware 8-2 in league and 9-3 overall while the Wolves fell to 7-3 and 11-4.

North Kitsap 12, Sequim 6

Sequim 3 1 0 2 0 0 0 ­— 6 8 5

North Kitsap 8 0 1 0 0 3 x — 12 12 2

WP- Smith; LP- Rickerson

Pitching Statistics

Sequim: Rickerson, 1/3IP, 8R, 1ER, 5H, 1BB; Hudson, 5 2/3IP, 4R, 1ER, 7H, 2BB.

North Kitsap: Smith, 6IP, 6R, 4K, 3BB; Harrel, 1IP, 0R, 1BB.

Hitting Statistics

Sequim: Royall, 2-3, HR, 2RBIs, BB; Wake, 1-2, 2RBIs; Yamamoto, 1-2, RBI, R, 2BB.

Softball
Port Angeles 11, Port Townsend 2

PORT TOWNSEND — The Roughriders (9-1 in league and overall) stayed a half-game behind the Wolves in the Olympic League standings with Monday’s victory.

The Redskins (0-7 in league and overall) scored their two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning after the game was decided.

Port Angeles led 7-0 in the second inning and never looked back.

Stacy Webb improved to 6-1 by pitching the first three innings, striking out five while allowing no hits, runs or walks.

Hannah Wahto, Kelsey Hinsdale and Sheri Adams all had two hits each for the Riders with Adams hitting a double.

Port Angeles next hosts Olympic on Wednesday at Dry Creek Elementary School.

Port Angeles 11, Port Townsend 2

Port Angeles 1 6 0 0 1 0 3 ­— 11 13 3

Port Townsend 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 — 2 7 4

WP- Webb (6-1); LP- LeMaster

Pitching Statistics

Port Angeles: Webb, 3IP, 5K, OBB, 0R, 0H; Curtis, 4IP, 2R, 7H, 3K, 2BB.

Port Townsend: LeMaster, 7IP, 11R, 13H, 7K, 0BB.

Hitting Statistics

Port Angeles: Wahto, 2-5, 2RBIs; Hinsdale, 2-5; Adams, 2-2, 2B, 2R.

Port Townsend: LeMaster, 2-3; Conroy, 2-3; Killham, 2-3.

Sequim 17, 
North Kitsap 0

POULSBO — The Wolves went back to their old ways of winning by mercy rule in five innings and they stayed perfect on the year in the Olympic League game Monday.

Sequim, 9-0 in league and 12-0 overall, scored nine runs in the first, three in the third and five in the fourth while holding the Vikings (1-7, 2-8) to one hit.

Demiree Briones and Columbia Haupt combined for the one-hitter with starter Briones striking out three with no hits in three innings while Haupt gave up the lone hit while fanning two.

The Wolves had three home runs with Rylleigh Zbaraschuk, Lea Hopson and Briones all ripping round-trippers.

Hopson had four RBIs while scoring two runs while Zbaraschuk went 3-for-3 with two RBIs and four runs and Briones also had two RBIs and scored two runs.

Bailey Rhodefer went 2-for-2 with a triple and a double with three runs scored and an RBI.

Sequim 17, North Kitsap 0, 
5 innings

Sequim 9 0 3 5 0 x x ­— 17 13 0

North Kitsap 0 0 0 0 0 x x — 0 1 0

WP- Briones; LP- Holt

Pitching Statistics

Sequim: Briones, 3IP, )R, )H, 3K; Haupt, 2IP, )R, 1H, 2K.

Hitting Statistics

Sequim: R. Zbaraschuk, 3-3, HR, 4R, 2RBIs; Hopson, 1-3, HR, 2R, 4RBIs; Briones, 1-2, HR, 2R, 2RBIs; M. Zbaraschuk, 2-3, R, RBI; Besand, 2-4, 2B, 2RBIs, 1R; Rhodefer, 2-2, 3B, 2B, RBI, 3R.

Boys Soccer
Elma 2, Forks 1, SO

FORKS — The Spartans took Elma to the limit in the SWL-Evergreen Division game Monday.

Forks went ahead 1-0 at the 22nd minute on a goal by Wilson Avila-Luna on an assist by Juan Beltran.

Elma tied it up 1-1 in the 34th minute and it stayed that way through regulation and two overtime periods.

Elma outshot Forks in the shootout to pick up the win.

Goalkeeper Shaq Cress had nine saves for the Spartans.

Boys Golf
Port Townsend 427, Sequim 440

PORT TOWNSEND — The Redskins earned the Olympic League team win but Sequim’s Ryan O’Mera took medalist honors Monday at Port Townsend Golf Club.

O’Mera won the match with an 18-hole score of 76, scoring 40 on the front nine and 36 on the back nine.

Cody Piper and Sean Anderson tied for second place for Port Townsend with 79 each, just three strokes behind O’Mera.

The Redskins also had two golfers tie for fourth place as Jake von Volkli and Gabe Hensley scored 87 each.

Coming in sixth was Ezra Perkins of Sequim iwth 88 while teammate Mal Maloney was right behind with 89.

Anthony Pinza of Sequim claimed eighth place with 92 while Sequim’s Casey Torres tied with Port Townsend’s Ben Reinhart for ninth place at 95 apiece.

Girls Golf
Sequim, inc, 
Port Townsend, inc.

PORT TOWNSEND — Jenny Grauberger of Port Townsend edged Sequim ace Kim Duce by one stroke to earn match medalist honors for her third straight match Monday at Port Townsend Golf Club.

The Redskins senior has led the Olympic League all season and continues to place first in league competition with nearly a 10-stroke lead.

Grauberger was first with a nine-hole score of 44 but Duce was right behind with 45.

Neither team fielded a full team of five players, so they both were incomplete.

The Wolves had four players while the Redskins had just Grauberger on the girls team.

Close behind Duce was Sequim teammate Hailey Estes with 48 while Elisa Sallee shot 54 and Vanessa Martinez had 67.

Girls Tennis
Port Angeles 6, 
North Mason 1

BELFAIR — Despite being short-handed, the Roughriders easily won the Olympic League match Monday.

Senior captain Laney Boyd was named the player of the match after she beat Misha Orchard 6-1, 6-2 at No. 1 singles.

“We were missing a couple of our top players, so the lineup looked a little big different,” coach Brian Gundersen said.

“Laney stepped up to the challenge of playing No. 1 singles despite not having played singles yet this year.”

Jordi Fickas and Chelsea Drake also won singles matches for the Riders while Port Angeles also won the top three doubles matches.

The Riders next host Kingston on Wednesday.

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