SEQUIM — A three-run extra innings rally prolonged Quilcene’s Class 1B State Baseball Tournament stay, but the Rangers couldn’t complete the comeback in a 10-9 loss to the Wahkiakum Mules on Wednesday at Sequim High School.
Quilcene previously rallied in their final regulation at-bats, tying the game up at 6-all in the bottom of the seventh when Aiden Cate’s fly to right field fell in and Jacob Tirao, who had earned a leadoff walk, stole second and scored on a pair of throwing errors.
With Cate at second base, Wahkiakum pitched around Rangers’ slugger Oliver Hopkins with an intentional walk and got the third out on a groundout to send the game to extra innings.
Wahkiakum touched Hopkins in the top of the eighth, getting a leadoff single, a pair of errors and three straight singles to take a 10-6 lead to the bottom of the frame.
Tirao’s 2-RBI triple closed the gap for the Rangers to 10-8, and Cate came through with an RBI groundout, but Wahkiakum (10-7) induced the necessary groundout for the third and final out.
Quilcene, the SeaTac League champions, finished the season 12-4.
Wahkiakum 10, Quilcene 9
Wahk. 1 0 0 0 3 2 0 4 — 10 8 8
Quil. 0 0 3 0 2 0 1 3 — 9 5 4
Pitching
Quilcene — Allen 3.2 IP, 0 H, R, BB, 5 K; Hopkins 4.1 IP, 8 H, 9 R, 4 ER, 2 BB, 3 K.
Hitting
Quilcene — Cate 1-4, HBP, 2 R, RBI; Love 1-5, 2B, R; Hopkins 1-2, 2 BB, 3 RBI; Tirao 1-2, 2 BB, 3B, 3 R.
Class 2A West Central District Track & Field
BREMERTON — Sequim and Port Angeles relay squads plus a handful of individual athletes qualified for the state track and field meet after the first day of competition Wednesday at the Class 2A West Central District meet at Bremerton High School.
The top five individual and team placers, plus the next two best times or distances from the Olympic or South Puget Sound League, qualified for the state meet set Thursday through May 31 at Mount Tahoma High School in Tacoma.
The Wolves’ youthful girls 4×200 relay squad sprinted to a second-place finish with a time of 1 minute, 49.86 seconds. Sequim’s team is made up of freshmen Ruby Moxley-Horgan and Kylie Peters, sophomore Birdie Pyeatt and senior Dawn Hulstedt.
Pyeatt, Peters, freshman Stella Dennis and junior Hailey Wagner also teamed for a fifth-place finish in the 4×100 relay.
Hulstedt also qualified for state after finishing fourth in the 1,600-meters in 5:20.02 and seventh in the 400 meters, in a personal best time of 1:01.84. Leia Larson was seventh for Port Angeles in the 1,600 in 5:29.91.
Port Angeles senior Faerin Tait earned two fourth-place times and will compete at state in at least two individual events the 100-meter hurdles and 400 sprint.
Tait set a personal record time of 1:00.33 in the 400 and posted a 16.83 in the 100 hurdles.
Sequim’s Ahrya Klinger also was sixth in the pole vault, clearing 8-feet.
Sequim sits sixth in the 16-team girls meet with 22 points, Port Angeles is 11th with 12 points, while Bainbridge leads with 77.
In the boys meet, Wolves’ sophomore Reid Randall set a new best time of 50.27 to place third in the 400.
Sequim’s Sean Southard advanced in the javelin, taking fourth with a throw of 154-06.
Brody Pierce set a new best leap of 20-11.5 in the long jump to take seventh for the Roughriders.
Keatyn Hoch was seventh in the high jump (5-08).
The 4×100 relay of Hunter Eller, Logan Wilson, Liam Wilson and Brody Pierce also were sixth in 43.93.
Sequim is 12th with 11 points, Port Angeles 14th with eight points and Franklin Pierce leads Steilacoom 56-54 entering today’s final day of competition.
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Sports reporter/columnist Michael Carman can be contacted at sports@peninsula dailynews.com.
