VICTORIA聽 6
PORT ANGELES聽 4
For a sport considered so leisurely and pastoral, it is amazing how seat-of-the pants hectic things can get near the end of a baseball season.
A gripping playoff race in the WCL鈥檚 North Division has come down to the final day of the regular season.
A dramatic Saturday left Victoria in a tenuous North Division second-half lead, half a game ahead of the Wentatchee AppleSox and a game ahead of the Bellingham Bells. That was thanks to a 6-4 Victoria win across the Strait against the Lefties in Port Angeles and the AppleSox鈥� 11-1 hammering of the Bells in Bellingham.
Victoria is 15-11 in the second half of the season (29-24 overall), Wenatchee 14-11 and Bellingham 14-12 in the race for the second-half North Division title and the playoff berth that goes with it.
The HarbourCats close out today in Port Angeles while Bellingham is home to the AppleSox. After that, it gets a bit complicated. Wenatchee had a home game not played last week against Corvallis due to smoke from the forest fires in the sa国际传媒 Interior.
If that game is needed to break a tie for first place in the North Division, it will be played on Monday. Victoria can clinch today with a victory in Port Angeles and a Wenatchee loss to Bellingham. But Wenatchee clinches with a win and Victoria loss. A Bellingham win today will leave a free for all.
The North Division second-half champion will play the first-half champion Kelowna Falcons in the divisional playoffs beginning on Tuesday.
Blake Hannah from UC-Davis took the win Saturday in Port Angeles for Victoria while Kevin Collard had three hits, a walk, two RBIs and a run scored before 2,964 fans at Civic Field.
