PORT ANGELES — Wilder Senior continued its strong start to its own Dick Brown Memorial Firecracker Tournament on Thursday evening, getting a near complete-game outing from pitcher Zeke Schamdeke and some timely hitting in a 4-2 win over CBC Orange at Volunteer Field.
All four of Wilders’ runs came in the bottom of the sixth, breaking open a scoreless game.
Alex Angevine notched his second extra-base hit of the game after an earlier triple with one out, doubling to left field. A walk to Lincoln Bear moved Angevine into scoring position and he came home on an RBI single by Braydan White.
A Colton Romero fielders’ choice added the third run to the scoreboard and Rylan Politika closed out the scoring with a two-run double, bringing home White and Ezra Townsend for a 4-0 lead.
Schmadeke shut down CBC through six full innings, but ran into a little trouble in the final frame, allowing an infield single, a walk and an RBI double to see his lead trimmed to 4-1 and then inducing a sacrifice fly for the first out of the inning.
Schmadeke then notched his fourth strikeout of the contest, but gave up another single and a walk to bring the potential leading run to the plate. Forks’ Logan Olsen came on and recorded a swinging strikeout to preserve the victory.
Wilder Senior faced Lakeside Recovery after press deadline on Friday.
Wilder Senior 4, CBC Orange 2
WBS-C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 — 2 3 1
WSR 0 1 0 0 0 3 X— 4 8 2
Pitching
Wilder Sr. — Schmadeke 6.2 IP, 2 ER, 5 BB, 4 K; Olsen 0.1 K.
CBC Orange. —Vasak 5.1 IP, 4 H, ER, 2 BB, 3 K; Guffie 0.0 IP, H, 3 ER, BB; Cullop 0.2 IP, H, K.
Hitting
Wilder Sr. — Angevine 2-3, 2B, 3B, R; White 1-3, R, RBI; Romero 1-3, SB, RBI; Politika 1-2, 2B, 2 RBI; Shumway 1-3, SB.
CBC Orange. —Maberry 2-3, R; Scott 1-2, BB, R; Carroll
Junior Tournament Wilder Junior 11, WBS Colts Grey 4
SEQUIM — Zach DeBray tallied an RBI single and a sacrifice fly and Owen Leitz came through with an RBI double and Wilder Junior took advantage of errors and wild pitches for its eighth straight victory and third straight to start the Dick Brown Memorial Firecracker Junior Tournament.
Duran Ward scored on a steal of home plate, Wilder Junior added runs on pair of Colts’ errors and two runs came across on wild pitches as the team feasted on mistakes.
Leitz also pitched two clean innings, walking two and striking out three in the victory.
Wilder Junior faced its second game of the day after press deadline Friday.
Whatcom 10, Wilder A 3
SEQUIM — Wilder’s A-level American Legion team was done in by seven errors in a Junior Firecracker loss Friday morning.
Things started well for Wilder A when Noah Johnstad and Lalo Dominguez came through with RBI doubles in the bottom of the first.
Whatcom broke the game open late, scoring six runs in their final at-bat, taking advantage of two hit batters, two walks, a passed ball, an error and a leadoff triple.
Wilder A will face WBS Colts White at Sequim High School at 8 a.m. today.
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KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Wilder Senior pitcher Zeke Schmadeke throws against CBC Orange on Thursday at Volunteer Field in Port Angeles. Schmadeke allowed just three hits in going one out short of a complete game in Wilders’ 4-2 win.
