DOUGLAS BLOWS ANOTHER BIG LEAD
Down 10-3 after five innings and in danger of making an early exit from the tournament, West Kootenay rallied for six runs in the sixth inning and sealed Douglas's fate with a 3-spot in the seventh to pull out an unlikely 12-11 victory over the Wyoming champions.
Douglas lost a sizable lead for the second straight day after giving up a 6-1 edge to Helena, Montana on Tuesday. Now the "Cats" from cowboy country need a huge upset over Astoria Thursday night to have any hope of advancing to the championship round.
Back-to-back 2-run singles by Sterling Spilinek and Justin Melton put four runs on the board in the first inning for Douglas after West Kootenay struck first on a Brady Glover sacrifice fly.
Douglas added five unearned runs in the third inning, taking advantage of four errors by Trail, British Columbia-based West Kootenay to take a 9-2 lead.
Down 10-3 with two outs in the sixth inning, the comeback began with a base on balls. After back-to-back base hits by Eric Bouma and Glover scored a run, Matt McAuley was plunked by a Spilinek pitch and the Douglas lefty was removed from the mound in favor of Dylan Klava, who would eventually get the final out of the inning, but not until a base hit by Jaryd Roblin, a bases loaded walk to Jesse Rypien and a bases clearing 3-run double by Cam Strachin to pull West Kootenay to within 10-9.
Douglas tallied an insurance run in the sixth, but it was not enough. Tim Fosmo, a winner Monday for the 'Cats in a complete game, came on to try to close the door in the seventh. Joey Underwood led off with a base hit and Bouma followed with a ground ball wide of first. First baseman Spilinek came well off the bag to glove the ball, looked to second and thought otherwise, throwing behind Fosmo covering the bag at first. The ball got past the pitcher, putting runners at second and third with none out. Glover followed with a game-tying single, stole second, went to third on a ground out, then scored on a squeeze bunt by Roblin to put West Kootenay ahead for the second and last time.
Glover finished 2-for-4 with four RBI's, Bouma was 3-for-5 with a pair of runs scored for B.C., which evened its pool record at 1-1 while dropping Douglas to 1-2.
W. KOOTENAY 1-1-0-1-0-6-3 12-12-6
DOUGLAS, WY 4-0-5-0-1-1-0 11-9-4
W-Wright (3 2/3ip, 4h, 2r, 2er, 3bb, 3k)
L-Fosmo (1ip, 2h, 3r, 0er, k, bb)
S-McAuley (1ip, 0h, 0r, k, 0bb)
E-Underwood 2, McAuley, Davis 2, Rypien, Igo, Fosmo, Edwards, Spilinek. LOB-WK 11, Douglas 10. 2B-Strachin. SB-Roblyn, Glover 2, Davis, McAuley, Rypien, Klava, Spilinek, Boyer, Espeland, Marcus 2, Melton, Boner. CS-McAuley. PO-Glover. S-Roblyn, Boner. SF-Glover. DP-WK 1.
Douglas lost a sizable lead for the second straight day after giving up a 6-1 edge to Helena, Montana on Tuesday. Now the "Cats" from cowboy country need a huge upset over Astoria Thursday night to have any hope of advancing to the championship round.
Back-to-back 2-run singles by Sterling Spilinek and Justin Melton put four runs on the board in the first inning for Douglas after West Kootenay struck first on a Brady Glover sacrifice fly.
Douglas added five unearned runs in the third inning, taking advantage of four errors by Trail, British Columbia-based West Kootenay to take a 9-2 lead.
Down 10-3 with two outs in the sixth inning, the comeback began with a base on balls. After back-to-back base hits by Eric Bouma and Glover scored a run, Matt McAuley was plunked by a Spilinek pitch and the Douglas lefty was removed from the mound in favor of Dylan Klava, who would eventually get the final out of the inning, but not until a base hit by Jaryd Roblin, a bases loaded walk to Jesse Rypien and a bases clearing 3-run double by Cam Strachin to pull West Kootenay to within 10-9.
Douglas tallied an insurance run in the sixth, but it was not enough. Tim Fosmo, a winner Monday for the 'Cats in a complete game, came on to try to close the door in the seventh. Joey Underwood led off with a base hit and Bouma followed with a ground ball wide of first. First baseman Spilinek came well off the bag to glove the ball, looked to second and thought otherwise, throwing behind Fosmo covering the bag at first. The ball got past the pitcher, putting runners at second and third with none out. Glover followed with a game-tying single, stole second, went to third on a ground out, then scored on a squeeze bunt by Roblin to put West Kootenay ahead for the second and last time.
Glover finished 2-for-4 with four RBI's, Bouma was 3-for-5 with a pair of runs scored for B.C., which evened its pool record at 1-1 while dropping Douglas to 1-2.
W. KOOTENAY 1-1-0-1-0-6-3 12-12-6
DOUGLAS, WY 4-0-5-0-1-1-0 11-9-4
W-Wright (3 2/3ip, 4h, 2r, 2er, 3bb, 3k)
L-Fosmo (1ip, 2h, 3r, 0er, k, bb)
S-McAuley (1ip, 0h, 0r, k, 0bb)
E-Underwood 2, McAuley, Davis 2, Rypien, Igo, Fosmo, Edwards, Spilinek. LOB-WK 11, Douglas 10. 2B-Strachin. SB-Roblyn, Glover 2, Davis, McAuley, Rypien, Klava, Spilinek, Boyer, Espeland, Marcus 2, Melton, Boner. CS-McAuley. PO-Glover. S-Roblyn, Boner. SF-Glover. DP-WK 1.
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