Baseball: Wolves get wild win in extras versus Coupeville

An extra-inning, come-from-behind win helped Sequim get past a tough loss to an opportunistic Olympic squad last week.

The Wolves (0-1 in Olympic League play, 2-2 overall) started the week with an 8-3, non-league win against Chimacum, and jumped out to a 1-0 lead and seemed to have the momentum against the visiting Olympic Trojans on March 15.

But things took a turn for the worse in the late innings, as a quartet of errors led to a 9-1 loss to the Trojans in Sequim’sfirst league game of the season.

Sequim held a 1-0 lead after notching a run in the third inning with Ian Miller driving in Cole Williams.

In the fourth inning and the score tied 1-1, Sequim (literally) knocked out Olympic starter Cale Downer with a line drive off his arm.

But Trojan reliever Evan Turnquist came in for four innings of one-hit shutout ball, and the Trojans turned the tide with a five-run fifth inning.

The Trojans tacked on two runs in the sixth and another in the seventh.

Miller, Sequim’s starter, was tagged with six runs in four-and-two-thirds innings, but thanks to miscues in the field just one of those runs was earned. He struck out seven.

Silas Thomas worked the final two-and-a-third innings, giving up three unearned runs. He had four strikeouts. Michael Young had a pair of base hits while Miller, Thomas and Michael Grubb each had hits.

Turnquist and Kylen Pereira each drove in two for the Trojans.

A day later, Coupeville and Sequim were knotted at 6-6. In the eighth, Coupeville got to relieve Ryan Clark for three unearned runs. In the bottom of the inning, with one run in and two outs, Elandon Washburn drove in two runs to tie the game before pushing across a run in the 10th for the win.

Joey Oliver pitched two scoreless innings for the victory.

Grubb was 3-for-6 with a double and three RBIs while Michael Young added two hits and Oliver had two RBIs. Tristin Dodson had a hit, two runs scored and three stolen bases.

Sequim added a non-league game at home on March 17, falling to Aberdeen 5-3. The Evergreen League squad tagged relieve Cameron Welcher for five hits and five walks in his four innings of work.

Down 5-1, Sequim scored a pair of runs in the fifth but couldn’t complete the comeback.

Johnnie Young had two hits for the Wolves, and Washburn tossed two shutout innings in relief.

Looking ahead

The Wolves were slated to play at Forks on March 19 and North Mason on March 20 — their fourth and fifth games in a six-day stretch — before hosting North Kitsap on March 23 and non-league foe Mt. Tahoma on March 24. Sequim is at Port Angeles on March 28.