PORT ANGELES — The Roughriders baseball team got down early to a good 3A team from Bainbridge and could never come back in a 7-1 defeat, the Riders’ first loss of the year.
Port Angeles managed just five hits in Monday’s game against a trio of Spartans pitchers who also struck out 15 Roughriders. Landon Siebel had a double and a run scored, while Adam Watkins had an RBI single in the fourth. Ty Bradow had a hit and a walk, while John Vaara and Jacob Felton each had hits.
How good in Bainbridge? Port Angeles’ lone run was the first run the Spartans had given up in three wins. The Riders were also the first team to keep the Spartans in single digits in runs scored.
Watkins and Ty Bradow had good days on the mound, giving up no earned runs over the final five innings. Watkins struck out four in three innings. Seibel started the game and took the loss, giving up four earned runs.
Roughriders pitchers only give up eight hits and one walk on the day, but six Port Angeles errors helped Bainbridge’s cause. The Spartans scored three of their runs on errors.
Meanwhile, Bainbridge made no errors.
“They’ve got a very big school and they’re a very, very talented team,” said coach Casey Dietz. “We need to be able to play teams like that.
“That’s the kind of team we need to be,” Dietz said.
The Riders (2-1) travel to Bainbridge (3-0) today to take on the Spartans again.
Bainbridge 7, Port Angeles 1
BB 3 1 0 2 0 0 1 — 7 8 0
PA 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 — 1 5 6
WP: Ritchie LP: Seibel
Pitching
BB — Ritchie 3.2 IP, 4 H, ER, 8 K, 2 BB; George 2.1 IP H, 5 K; McWilliam 1 IP, 2 K, BB.
PA — Seibel 2 IP, 6 H, 4 ER, 2 K, BB; Watkins 3 IP, H, 4 K; Bradow 2 IP, H, 2 K.
Hitting
BB — McWilliam 1-4, 2B, 2 R; Francis 1-4, 2B, R, RBI; George 1-4, R, RBI.
PA — Seibel 1-4, R; Watkins 1-3, RBI; Bradow 1-2, BB; Vaara 1-2; Felton 1-3.
Klahowya 11, East Jefferson 5
CHIMACUM — The East Jefferson baseball team had its chances against Klahowya, according to coach Bob Eldridge, but too many errors in the field helped the Eagles win 11-5.
“It’s a game we let slip away,” Eldridge said. “It’s a game we could’ve won. We just made too many mistakes.
“We hit the ball well, we ran the bases really well, we just couldn’t get the defense to come through. It’s a pretty young team,” he said.
East Jefferson was up 3-1 in the third inning and 5-3 in the fifth. “And then things went south,” Eldridge said.
Eldridge said East Jefferson pitcher Hunter Cerna pitched a good game, “but he didn’t get any help from his defense.”
East Jefferson (0-3) gets another crack at Klahowya in Silverdale today.
Central Kitsap 35, Sequim 0
SEQUIM — The Sequim Wolves had one of the worst games imaginable against a powerful 3A Central Kitsap team, giving up 31 runs in one frame in a painful 35-0 loss.
Central Kitsap is 3-0 and has outscored its opponents 57-1.
Coach Dave Ditlefsen said the Wolves were holding their own and were only down 4-0 entering the fifth inning and had managed to keep the Cougars scoreless in three innings out of four, but in the fifth, everything fell apart.
“We couldn’t get any outs. It was the worst inning I’ve ever been a part of,” Ditlefsen said. “It just got out of hand.” He said it was a combination of errors, walks and hits.
Michael Grubb and Hayden Eaton did have hits for the Wolves, with Eaton’s hit a triple.
Sequim (1-1) gets to take on the Cougars again on the road today.
