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.
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.
