VICTORIA 7
WENATCHEE 4
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It was perhaps fitting the Victoria HarbourCats set the West Coast League baseball record for most consecutive wins at 15 on Monday night in Wenatchee, Washington.
The HarbourCats defeated the AppleSox 7-4 to eclipse the old standard of 14 established by Wenatchee in 2011.
Wenatchee took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the third inning Monday before the HarbourCats scored three runs in the top of the fourth inning.
A Griffin Andreychuk double score Matt Lautz from first base to give Victoria a 5-4 lead in the top of the eighth inning. Andreychuk, from Nanaimo and an NCAA Div. 1 player with the Seattle University Redhawks, later scored in the inning from third base on a walk to Joe Prior with the bases loaded. Dakota Dean from the University of New Orleans Privateers scored from third on a Wenatchee wild pitch to give Victoria a 7-4 lead in the eighth.
Prior led Victoria with a hit, run and three RBIs. Ben Polshuk added a hit, run and two RBIs in just two trips to the plate. Lautz scored two runs.
HarbourCats starter James Kannenberg, out of the University of San Francisco Dons, went 4.2 innings and allowed four hits, two runs, one walk while striking out six.
Austin Dondanville, Victoria鈥檚 second reliever on the night, took the win with three strikeouts, one hit, no walks and no runs in his 1.2 innings of toil. Holden Lyons mopped up in the ninth inning.
The AppleSox starter, Jimmy Dobrash, lasted six complete innings with five hits and four runs allowed with three walks and two strikeouts. Reliever and Californian, Mac Lardner out of the Gonzaga University Bulldogs, took the loss.
The HarbourCats tied the league record with a 14th consecutive victory with a walk-off run in the bottom of the 11th inning Sunday afternoon in a 6-5 victory over the Kitsap Blue Jackets before 2,565 fans at Royal Athletic Park when six-foot-four hitter Polshuk from Cal Poly singled and Brad Plushkell from the University of California-Davis scored from first base on a BlueJackets fielding error. Those are the breaks a team on a roll gets, and which teams on bad stretches never seems to get.
The HarbourCats then boarded the first Coho sailing on Monday morning to Port Angeles, followed by the five-hour, 330-kilometre bus ride to Wenatchee in north central Washington state and the self-proclaimed 鈥淎pple Capital of the World.鈥�
If the HCats were any worse for wear because of the travel and quick turnaround, they didn鈥檛 show it Monday night. But that鈥檚 the whole idea of collegiate summer ball 鈥� to give these NCAA players a taste of what it will be like in minor-pro ball, complete with wood bats and the brutal travel.
The HarbourCats continue their three-game set tonight and Wednesday in Wenatchee before returning home for four games against the Kelowna Falcons from Thursday to Saturday at Royal Athletic Park, including a sa国际传媒 Day doubleheader on Friday afternoon.
