KENNEWICK — The Olympic Crosscutters lost control and lost their third straight game at the 34th annual Duster Bowl baseball tournament.
The Pasco Sun Devils turned four walks and a passed ball into two runs to beat the Crosscutters 5-3 on Saturday.
After spotting Pasco three runs in the first inning, Olympic responded with three runs of their own over the next two innings to tie the game 3-3.
Logan Shaw scored the Cutters’ first run on an error in the second inning.
In the third, A.J. Prater scored on a passed ball and then Shaw singled home Bailey Early to even the score.
The scored remained tied until the bottom of the fifth when Olympic reliever Nick Faunce walked four Sun Devils and had a passed ball, leading to two Pasco runs.
Shaw singled to lead off the sixth but was stranded, and the Cutters went down in order in the seventh to end the game.
Shaw was 2 for 2 with a run, an RBI and two stolen bases.
Gavin Velarde added two hits and a steal for the Crutters. Prater and Eli Harrison
had Olympic’s other two hits.
Sloppy start
Errors crippled the Crosscutters in their first two games.
The Cutters committed five errors each of their first two games, a 5-2 loss to Capital on Thursday and a 9-4 loss to the host Kennewick Dusters on Friday.
Olympic held a 4-1 lead after three innings against the Dusters.
The Cutters pushed one run across in the first inning. A.J. Prater singled, stole second and third and came home on a sacrifice fly by Nigel Christian.
Christian added a second RBI in the third inning when he singled home Gavin Velarde, who had tripled to open the frame.
Bailey Earley then singled to center field to score Christian and later scored on a passed ball.
Kennewick erased the deficit with a seven-run fourth inning.
Six of the runs in the big inning stemmed from four Olympic errors
Christian picked up the loss on the mound. He allowed a run-scoring single and an RBI double during the Dusters’ rally.
Against Capital on Thursday, the Cutters spotted their opponents an early 1-0 lead in the first inning.
Olympic answered when Dane Bradow singled, stole second and advanced to third and then home on a Daniel Harker single to center field in the bottom of the second.
Capital regained the lead at 2-1 on a passed ball thrown by Nick Faunce.
A bunt single put Gavin Velarde aboard in the bottom of the fifth, and he was promptly doubled home by Christian to tie the game at 2-all.
But the Cutters came unglued in the top of the sixth, allowing three unearned runs on three errors.
Olympic, the fourth seed in the tournament’s Blue Division, will attempt to finish the Duster Bowl on a high note against the Red Division’s last-place team today at 8 a.m.
Saturday’s Game
Pasco 5, Crosscutters 3
Crosscutters 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 — 3 6 2
Pasco 3 0 0 0 2 0 x — 5 6 2
WP- Crawford; LP- Faunce
Pitching Statistics
Crosscutters: Hilliard 3 IP, 4 H, 3 R, BB, 2 K; Faunce 1 2/3 IP, H, 2 R, ER, 5 BB; Harker 1 1/3 IP, H, 0 R, K.
Pasco: Crawford 7 IP, 6 H, 3 R, ER, 3 BB, 4 K.
Hitting Statistics
Crosscutters: Shaw 2-2, R, RBI, 2 SB; Velarde 2-4, SB; Prater 1-3, R; Harrison 1-3; Earley 0-2, R, SB.
Pasco: Manville 2-2, 2B, 3B, 2 R, 2 RBI; Vega 1-4, 2B, R; Caughey 1-4, R.
Friday’s Game
Kennewick 9, Crosscutters 4
Crosscutters 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 — 4 9 5
Kennewick 0 1 0 7 1 0 X — 9 5 2
LP- Christian
Pitching Statistics
Crosscutters: Harker 1 1/3 IP, H, 2 R, ER, 2 BB; Christian 3 2/3 IP, 4 H, 7 R, ER, 3 BB, K; Bradow IP.
Kennewick: Avery 2 1/3 IP, 6 H, 3 R, 2 ER.
Hitting Statistics
Crosscutters: Christian 2-3, 3 SB, 2 RBI, R; Earley 2-2, BB, SB, RBI, R; Velarde 1-4, 3B, R; Prater 1-3, 2 SB, R; Beckett 1-3, Mann 1-2, Bradow 1-4.
Kennewick: Brown 1-3, 2 RBI, 2 R; Gee 1-3, 2B, BB, RBI, R; Ellison 1-1, 2 BB, 2 R; Kirk 1-4, RBI, R; Milderig 0-3, BB, 2 R.
Thursday’s Game
Capital 5, Crosscutters 2
Capital 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 — 5 5 2
Crosscutters 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 — 2 5 5
WP- Bennett-Chong; LP- Faunce
Pitching Statistics
Capital: Tallman 4 IP, 3 H, R, ER, BB, 3 K; Bennett-Chong 3 IP, 2 H, ER, BB, 4 K.
Crosscutters: L. Dotson 3 IP, 3 H, ER, 3 BB, 4 K; Faunce 2 2/3 IP, 2 H, 4 R, 3 BB, 3 K; C. Dotson 1 1/3 IP, BB.
Hitting Statistics
Capital: Ciampi 1-3, BB, RBI; Bennett-Chong 1-3, R; Hayden 2-5, SB, R; Loose 1-3, BB.
Crosscutters: Christian 2-3, 2 2B, RBI; Bradow 1-3, SB, R; Velarde 1-4, R; Harker 1-3.
