KAMLOOPS, B.C. — Port Angeles’ offense came to play, busting out 16 hits, but the Lefties couldn’t keep Kamloops off the scoreboard in a 21-8 loss to the North Paws which doubled as both teams’ summer finale.
Kamloops used two seven-run innings to beat back the Lefties’ challenge.
Eddie Alfaro tripled home Jack Edmunds and then came home himself on an error by the Kamloops second baseman to knot the score up at 2-all after three innings.
After Kamloops’ first seven-run binge, Port Angeles clawed three runs back in the top of the fifth.
Edmunds connected on a solo home run, his team-leading eighth of the summer, to pull within 9-3.
Edmunds, a Brown University sophomore from Sammamish, also led the team in the other major statistical categories this summer, leading Port Angeles in batting average at .316 and driving in 34 runs.
After a walk by Alfaro and a single by Garrett Patterson, Tommy Markey came through with an RBI single and Dom Dominguez later added a fielder’s choice to bring the score to 9-5 Kamloops.
The North Paws answered back, however, with a four-run fifth.
Edmunds came through again with an RBI single in the sixth, and Jeremy Giesegh later came home on a throwing error. Giesegh also drove in Port Angeles’ final run in the seventh on an RBI single.
Hunter Conn-Beck took the loss on the mound for the Lefties after allowing seven earned runs on three hits and four walks in 2/3 of an inning pitched.
Playoffs begin today
Port Angeles finished the summer with a 20-34 record in WCL contests, good for seventh place in the eight-team North Division.
In the South Division playoffs, Bend will take on second-half camp Corvallis, and first-half champ Portland will matche up with the Marion Berries. In the North Division playoffs, first-half champ Bellingham will play Wenatchee, and Victoria will face second-half champ Edmonton.
Kamloops 21, Port Angeles 8
PA 0 0 2 0 3 0 2 1 0 — 8 16 2
Kam. 0 2 0 7 4 1 0 7 x — 21 13 3
WP: Riley; LP: Hunter Conn-Beck
Pitching
PA — Patterson 3 IP, 4 H, 2 ER, BB, 3 K; Conn-Beck 0.2 IP, 3 H, 7 ER, 4 BB, K; Rivera 0.2 IP, 0 H, 3 ER, 5 BB, 2 K; Mullen 2.2 IP, 5 H, 5 ER, 2 BB, 4K; Jinks IP, H, 4 R, BB, K.
Hitting
PA — Alfaro 1-for-5, 3B, 2 R, RBI, HBP, SB; Edmunds, 3-for-6, HR, 2 R, 2 RBI; White 1-for-2, R, 3 RBI, SB; Markey 3-for-4, BB; Kirk 3-for-6, R.
