VANCOUVER, Wash. — Wilder Baseball’s 2015 season had a terrible ending that only Mother Nature could have written.
Wilder’s concluded its summer by waiting out the rain at the fourth annual GSL Clackamas Community College/Clark College Invitational in Vancouver and Battle Ground over the weekend.
But the area baseball team left Southwest Washington before the rain did, as Saturday’s and Sunday’s games were rained out.
Wilder played two games at the tournament, finishing with a 1-1 record. Its final game was a 5-4 win over the Federal Way Warriors on Friday.
Wilder, made up this year of players from Port Angeles and Sequim, finishes the season with a 20-11-1 overall record.
The summer included a third-place finish at the Senior Babe Ruth state tournament. Wilder actually tied for first with the Columbia Basin River Dogs and Lakeside Recovery, but were relegated to third place based on runs allowed.
Columbia Basin, which Wilder defeated in the state tournament, ended up beating Lakeside Recovery in a tiebreaker game and then went on to win the Pacific Northwest regional tournament in Calgary last week to earn a spot at next month’s Senior Babe Ruth World Series in Klamath Falls, Ore.
Three Wilder veterans have used up their eligibility to play for the team, shortstop Brady Konopaski, first baseman Larsson Chapman and infielder Zach Withrow.
