PORT ANGELES — Pinch hitter Anders Chapman drove in Brady Shimko with two outs to give Port Angeles a 5-4 walk-off victory over Aberdeen in nonleague baseball action at Civic Field.
The Roughriders tied the game with a run in the sixth inning, and then Janson Pederson kept the Bobcats at bay in his only inning of relief to send Saturday’s contest to the bottom of the seventh with the score 4-4.
Corey Stone gave the Riders a runner on base with a one-out single. Shimko then entered the game as a pinch runner, and Pederson’s single moved Shimko into scoring position with two outs.
Port Angeles coach Vic Reykdal put in Chapman, a senior who didn’t play high school baseball last year, and Chapman singled in Shimko from second base to give the Riders their first win of the season.
“He came up with that clutch hit, drove in the winning run,” Reykdal said of Chapman.
Pederson earned the win for his one inning on the mound that included two strikeouts, one hit and one walk.
The senior was Port Angeles’ fourth pitcher of the game, as Reykdal elected to utilize the many experienced hurlers at his disposal this season with a platoon Saturday.
Seniors Curan Bradley, Travis Paynter and Ryan Rodocker each went two innings for the Riders.
Bradley started and struck out four while allowing two hits, two walks and an earned run during his stretch on the hill.
Paynter allowed three hits and three runs, two of which were earned, while walking two and fanning two.
Rodocker held Aberdeen scoreless, striking out one and giving up one hit in his turn.
“One guy I was really impressed with was Rodocker in his two innings,” Reykdal said. “He threw 21 pitches in two innings, and he only faced six guys, so he was sharp.”
The Bobcats scored one run in the first and then took a 4-0 lead with three more in the fourth inning.
But Port Angeles scored three times in the bottom of the fourth to get back in the game.
Bradley singled and stole second, Tanner Gochnour was hit by a pitch and Eathen Boyer reached on a bunt to load the bases.
Jace Bohman’s sacrifice fly brought in Bradley, Luke Angevine singled home Gochnour, and Boyer scored on a passed ball.
Angevine had two of Port Angeles’ 10 hits.
The Riders cut down on their strikeouts, fanning only twice after being mowed down 11 times in their 3-1 loss to Bainbridge on Wednesday.
“We really worked on our two-strike approach,” Reykdal said.
Port Angeles next face Chimacum (0-3) at Civic Field on Wednesday.
The Riders then play at Klahowya on Friday before starting Olympic League 2A play Tuesday, March 29, at home against Kingston.
“Overall it was a good improvement for us,” Reykdal said of Saturday’s game.
“We have a couple more nonleaguers, and then we should be ready to go [for Kingston].”
Port Angeles 5, Aberdeen 4
Aberdeen 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 — 4 7 2
Port Angeles 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 — 5 10 2
WP- Pederson
Pitching Statistics
Port Angeles: Bradley 2 IP, 2 H, 2 BB, 4 K, ER; Paynter 2 IP, 3 H, 2 BB, 2 K, 3 R, 2 ER; Rodocker 2 IP, H, K, 0 R; Pederson IP, H, BB, 2 K, 0 R.
Hitting Statistics
Port Angeles: Angevine 2-4, RBI; Bradley 1-4, R; Gochnour 1-3, R; Pederson 1-1, BB; McGoff 1-1, R; Basden 1-3.
BOYS SOCCER
Port Angeles 11, Chimacum 0
CHIMACUM — Nine Roughriders scored and goalkeepers Keenan Leslie and Jackson May combined to shut out the Cowboys.
Port Angeles wasted little time getting on the scoreboard, May’s cross set up Grayson Peet in the first minute of Saturday’s game, and never looked back.
In the fifth minute, Lukas Mobious dribbled down for an unassisted goal to make it 2-0.
The Riders then added four goals in eight minutes to extend their lead to 6-0 at halftime.
Jesse Salgado scored on a through-ball by Wei-Yan Fu in the 14th minute, May headed the ball into the net off a corner kick by Mobius in the 17th, Tim Meyer took a breakaway dribble for a score in the 18th, and Kenny Soule’s cross in the 22nd minute was finished by Mobius.
Soule scored the first goal of the second half with a deflection in the 48th minute.
Josef Sollman dribbled away from the defense for a score in the 52nd minute, and three minutes later, Soule’s throw-in set up a goal by Austin Fischer.
In the 62nd minute, Preston Tucker scored off an assist Michael Scott.
The final score was an own-goal off a corner kick with four minutes remaining in regulation.
Port Angeles coach Chris Saari lauded the entire team’s offensive effort. He chose Scott Methner as the team’s defensive player of the match, and Preston Tucker was the Riders’ top transition player.
Chimacum almost scored in the second half, but the shot hit the crossbar.
“Cowboys center midfielder Carter McCleary stood out in the game, but was unable to break through a lot of double and triple teams by [our] defense,” Saari said.
The Riders (1-0-1) play their first Olympic League 2A match of the season Tuesday against North Kitsap (0-0-1) at Civic Field.
Chimacum (1-3-0) is off until Thursday, March 31, when it hosts the Kingston JV team.
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Compiled using team reports.
