North Olympic Babe Ruth baseball and softball teams of Port Angeles fared well in postseason tournaments Thursday.
The North Olympic Junior Babe Ruth 13-year-olds have started their state baseball tournament 2-0 with victories in pool play Tuesday and Thursday.
In the first round on Tuesday, Port Angeles beat Sedro-Woolley 5-4.
Olympic was led by game MVP Ethan Boyer at the plate.
Also, Ricky Crawford went 2-for-2 with a single and double.
Olympic had good pitching from Crawford, Kellen Landry and Adam Iseri-Fujii.
On Thursday, Olympic stomped Ellensburg 17-8 to open 2-0 in pool play.
Port Angeles was sparked by game MVP Austin Scarpa, who went 4-for-5 with a triple, scoring four runs.
Iseri-Fujii went 4-for-6, knocking in four RBIs.
Pitchers Corey Stone, Iseri-Fujii, Travis Paynter and Curan Bradley combined to give up eight runs on five hits with 5 strikeouts, 13 walks and a hit batter.
The pitchers stranded 14 runners.
North Olympic next plays Spokane at noon today.
12U softball 2-0
ELLENSBURG — North Olympic’s 12U softball team got off to a good start at the Northwest Regional Babe Ruth Tournament by winning its first two games.
Port Angeles defeated Roseburg, Ore. 17-7 and Kuna, Idaho 9-2 in pool play Thursday.
In its opener, North Olympic had another of those slow beginnings, trailing Roseburg 5-1 and then 7-3 before coming back to score 14 unanswered runs and winning in a five-inning game.
In Olympic’s second contest, the area team conceded a first-inning run, but then pitcher Nizhoni Wheeler shut down a Kuna team that had lost to Washington state champion Othello only 3-2 earlier in the morning.
The going gets tougher today as North Olympic will finish pool play in contests with host Ellensburg and Othello, the only teams to finish ahead of Port Angeles at state.
