The Sequim baseball team was six outs away from a certain league defeat to Olympic when the Wolves erupted for 10 runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to shock the Trojans 11-7 on April 28.
The victory was the sixth out of seven games for the Wolves, their third in as many games, and vaulted Sequim’s record to over .500 at 9-8 after a rough 3-7 start to the season.
The Wolves (5-9 in Olympic League) tallied three singles, a double, a triple, two walks and two hit batsmen during their wild sixth inning. Olympic also helped with two errors and a run-scoring wild pitch.
Brayden White had a two-run double during the rally, while Lincoln Bear added an RBI triple.
Bear finished the game 2-for-4 with two runs scored, while Bryant Laboy was 1-for-4 with a run scored and three RBIs. White finished with two runs scored and two RBIs. Devyn Dearinger and Zeke Schmadeke each had a hit, a run and an RBI.
Schmadeke started the game and was touched up for seven hits and five earned runs in three innings. He struck out two.
Olympic at one point held a 6-0 lead over the Wolves, but the duo of Laboy and Toppy Robideau shut down the Trojan bats over the final four innings to give the Wolves a chance to come back. Laboy got the victory, three-and-a-third innings, giving up two hits and one earned run while striking out three. Robideau got the final two outs with one strikeout to earn a save.
SHS tops Bulldogs in one-run games
Schmadeke’s fifth hit against North Mason last week was as clutch as they come — a two-out, two-RBI single in the bottom of the ninth to tie the game.
Schmadeke and the Wolves survived an epic, 11-inning contest with the visiting Bulldogs on April 24, winning 6-5 on an Ayden Holland sacrifice fly.
North Mason held a 3-1 lead until the bottom of the sixth inning, before Bear ripped a two-run double to knot the game at 3-3.
It stayed that way until the ninth, when the Bulldogs plated two runs. They had two strikes on Dearinger, but the Sequim freshman earned a walk. Hunter Tennell followed with a single and Laboy walked to load the bases, setting the stage for Schmadeke’s heroics.
Schmadeke came on in relief of starter Toppy Robideau and reliever Brayde White, and shut down North Mason in the 10th and 11th innings.
In the bottom of the frame, Tennell reached on an error to lead things off. Laboy then looked to sacrifice with a bunt, but was safe when a rushed throw pulled the first baseman off the bag and Tennell took third with no one covering the hot corner. North Mason walked Schmadeke, not wanting to take any chances with him and to set up a force at any base.
After recording an out, however, Holland hit a fly ball to medium right field to score Tennell.
Schmadeke finished 5-for-6 with a run and two RBIs, Tennell scored three times and Holland drew three of the Wolves’ 13 bases on balls.
Robideau went seven innings, holding North Mason to two earned runs on four hits and three walks, striking out seven.
The teams combined to leave 17 men on base.
Two days later, this time on the road, Sequim again earned a late-inning victory — by an identical 6-5 score — thanks to some heroics from White.
His two-out, two-run single in the sixth inning served as the game-winning hit. White also doubled, walked and drove in three runs to pace the Wolves.
Holland also drove in a run and Dearinger had two hits for Sequim. Ethan Staples struck out seven while allowing five runs on seven hits and five walks.
Bear pitched a nearly flawless sixth and seventh inning, allowing one walk with one strikeout.
The Wolves were scheduled to finish the regular season on the road at Olympic on May 1 — results were not available at press time.
