YOUTH SPORTS ROUNDUP: Area baseball and softball recaps

Lions roar past Rotary

PORT ANGELES — Lions dropped Rotary 7-3 in Cal Ripken League baseball action.

Peyton King led Lions at the plate, going 3 for 4 with an RBI double and scoring three runs.

Kai Ferguson earned the win on the mound, pitching three innings, surrendering one run, zero hits, striking out seven and walking only one. Elisha Dujue’ started the game for Lions, pitching three innings, giving up one hit and striking out nine.

Tate Alton picked up Rotary Nor’wester’s only hit.

Tranco wins again

PORT ANGELES — Tranco pushed past Jim’s Pharmacy 6-2 in softball play.

Tranco pitchers Grace Roening and Teagan Clark each went three innings, with Roening totaling six strikeouts while allowing no hits and two walks. Clark notched five strikeouts and closed out the game.

Lily Halberg scored twice and was 2 for 2 at the plate with a single, a triple and a sacrifice RBI for Tranco.

Clark was 2 for 3 with inside-the-park homer, Zoe Smithson went 2 for 3 and scored twice and Abby Frank, Maryrose Halberg and Hollie Tietjen all added singles.

Jim’s starter Anne Edwards tallied five strikeouts in three innings pitched and Taylor Worthington recorded four K’s in the final two innings. Neither pitcher allowed a walk.

Co-Op tops Swain’s

PORT ANGELES — Sequim Co-Op beat Swain’s 10-9 in an Olympic Junior Babe Ruth game halted in the sixth inning due to darkness.

Swain’s left runners in scoring position in their final at-bats.

Co-Op’s Caleb Pozernick went 3 for 4 with two doubles and four RBI; Nate Clemons went 2 for 2 with a home run, Noah Turner 2 for 3 with a run and an RBI, Brandon Burnett went 1 for 2 and scored.

Silas Thomas walked three times, singled and scored twice for Sequim, while Michael Grubb added a hit and a walk and Dustan Koch was 1 for 3 with an RBI and a run.

Tanner Price went 2 for 3, scored twice and drove in a run for Swain’s. Adam Watkins and Bostyn Fisher each scored and drove in a run and James Burkhardt had an RBI single.

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