PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles and Sequim baseball teams both entered their spring breaks with Olympic League 2A victories on their home fields.
Daniel Harker struck out nine for the Wolves in their 15-1 thrashing of Kingston on Tuesday.
At Civic Field, Janson Pederson fanned 11 batters in his first start of the season and the Roughriders took full advantage of Bremerton’s fielding mistakes in a 8-2 win.
Pederson, a senior, allowed only allowed four hits and two runs while walking two in six innings Tuesday.
“I was really happy for him,” Port Angeles coach Vic Reykdal said.
“He finally got his first start. Because of scheduling, we kind of skipped over him.
“I’m really pleased. He pitched well. I like to see that. He’s a good, solid senior for us, and I expect that [type of performance] the rest of the year.”
The Riders held a 1-0 lead heading into the bottom of the fifth inning, during which they exploded for seven runs to push the cushion to 8-0.
Walks and errors set up the big inning, and the Port Angeles bats took care of the rest.
With one out, Curan Bradley reached on an error and Luke Angevine on a walk. Those two then stole second and third base.
Bradley scored when Tanner Gochnour reached on an error, and then Travis Paynter tripled to drive in Angevine and Gochnour.
Paynter then scored on a single by Pederson.
Colton McGuffey followed with a single and Corey Stone walked to load the bases. Anders Chapman hit into a fielder’s choice that scored Pederson.
Noah McGoff, who led off the inning with a walk but was thrown out trying to steal second base, doubled to score McGuffey and Stone and cap the scoring for Port Angeles.
“They opened the door with a couple errors and then we get a triple and two singles and a double,” Reykdal said.
Bremerton scored its only two runs on Pederson in the top of the sixth inning.
Then Ryan Rodocker came in and struck out the side for the Riders in the seventh inning.
Rodocker, normally a middle reliever, also made his second start in two days — his first two of the season — in the outfield because Port Angeles is short of players out of town for spring break.
“Ryan Rodocker came in clutch for us the past two days,” Reykdal said.
“He’s an unselfish kid. He could play more for us in the outfield, but we like to have him available . . . so we can we can get him warmed up and get him ready.
“I was really pleased with his play the [past] two days.”
Port Angeles went up 1-0 in the second inning when Daniel Williamson scored on a passed ball.
Another player who took advantage of extra time with so many regulars missing was sophomore Brady Shimko, who started at third base.
“He played really well. I think he had three putouts,” Reykdal said. “I was really pleased with him.”
The Riders improve to 3-1 in league play at 6-2 overall. They they return to action at league-leading North Kitsap (3-0, 6-2) next Tuesday.
Port Angeles 8, Bremerton 2
Bremerton 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 — 2 4 4
Port Angeles 0 1 0 0 7 0 x — 8 5 0
WP- Pederson
Pitching Statistics
Port Angeles: Pederson 6 IP, 2 R, 4 H, 11 K, 2 BB; Rodocker IP, 3 K, BB.
Hitting Statistics
Port Angeles: McGuffey 2-2, 2 R; Paynter 1-3, 3B, R, 2 RBI; McGoff 1-1, 2B, 2 RBI; Pederson 1-3, R, RBI.
Sequim 15, Kingston 1
SEQUIM — Daniel Harker struck out the side in all three innings that he pitched for the Wolves.
When he left the mound, Sequim had an 15-1 lead that it maintained until the mercy rule was put into effect after five innings.
The Wolves scored four in the first inning and 11 in the second.
Sequim brought 15 batters to the plate in the bottom of the second.
The first run scored when Evan Hurn was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to bring in Nick Faunce for the first run. Hurn’s second time up he brought in Justin Porter with a triple.
Logan Hankinson’s single scored Porter and Hurn, and Hankinson scored on a single by Ian Dennis.
Gavin Velarde drove in Dennis and Faunce with a double. Porter, Nigel Christian and James Thayer also knocked in runs in the inning.
Harker capped the scoring with a double that scored Hurn.
Hurn doubled and tripled, scored three times and drove in two runs. Velarde was 2 for 3 with a double, three runs and an RBI.
Thayer had two hits and two RBIs, Christian had two hits and scored twice, and Hankinson brought in three runs.
Harker had two hits, including a double, drove in two runs and scored another.
One the mound, he allowed three hits and one run and walked two Buccaneers.
Thayer and Austin Hilliard each tossed a scoreless inning for the Wolves.
Sequim (3-2, 7-4) has now won two straight games, both to Olympic League 2A foes. The Wolves host North Mason (1-3, 4-5) next Tuesday.
Sequim 15, Kingston 1, 5 innings
Kingston 0 0 1 0 0 — 1 3 1
Sequim 4 11 0 0 x — 15 15 2
WP- Harker; LP- Mitzger
Pitching Statistics
Kingston: Mitzger 4 IP, 15 H, 15 R, 7 ER, 4 BB, 5 K.
Sequim: Harker 3 IP, 3 H, R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 9 K; Thayer IP, 0 H, 0 R, BB, K; Hilliard IP, 0 H, 0 R, 3 K.
Hitting Statistics
Kingston: Butler 1-3, RBI; Moutray 1-3, R; Iboura 1-3.
Sequim: Velarde 2-3, 2B, 3 R, 2 RBI; Porter 1-2, 2 R, RBI; Hurn 2-3, 2B, 3B, 3 R, 3 RBI; Harker 2-3, 2B, R, 2 RBI; Christian 2-2, 2 R, RBI; Hankinson 1-3, R, 3 RBI, SB; Thayer 2-2, 2 RBI; Dennis 1-2, R, RBI; Faunce 1-1, 2 R; Young 1-1.
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Compiled using team reports.
