Baseball: Errors spell doom in defeats

Wolves look to rebound in season’s final games ending next week

Olympic League standings

(as of April 24)

Team Lg. Over.

North Kitsap 7-1 10-3

Port Angeles 5-2 11-3

Olympic 5-3 9-4

Bremerton 4-3 7-6

Sequim 4-4 9-6

North Mason 1-7 4-10

Kingston 1-7 2-9

 

Sequim Gazette staff

One bad apple, the cliche goes, can spoil the bunch. So it was in Sequim High School baseball’s 9-4 home loss to Bremerton on April 19, when a quartet of errors in the fourth led to a seven Knight runs.

The teams plated one run each in the first and third innings before the floodgates opened. Bremerton batted around before Sequim could get an out, fueled by four miscues, a hit batter, a walk and three singles.

Sequim got two runs back in the seventh inning on a two-run triple by Evan Hurn, but the damage was done.

 

Austin Hilliard took the loss for Sequim, though only two of the nine runs he gave up in three innings of work were earned. Daniel Harker threw four innings of shutout relief, striking out six and giving up just two hits. Sequim’s Gavin Velarde was

2-for-4 with three runs scored and Hurn had three RBIs.

 

Bremerton’s Andy McMartin went the distance, giving up six hits and two earned runs.

Looking ahead

Sequim was slated to take on Olympic at home on April 26 — results of the game were not available at press time. The Wolves round out the regular season with away dates at Port Angeles (April 27), Kingston (April 29) and North Mason (May 3).

The West Central District tourney starts May 7.