VICTORIA听 14
GRESHAM听 12
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The Victoria HarbourCats were supposed to be the tired team on Saturday night after travelling overnight from Bellingham, Washington, to Gresham, Oregon.
But someone forgot to tell the HarbourCats.
Victoria went to the top of the ninth inning trailing the GreyWolves 12-4 and promptly scored seven runs before the home team even got an out, then added one more to force the GreyWolves to take their last bats.
Taylor Prokopis shut the GreyWolves down in the bottom of the ninth.
Then Po-Hau Huang and Cole Weiss got back-to-back hits in the 10th and Shane McGuire brought them home with a two-run single and the HarbourCats, with a scoreless 10th pitched by Matt Kent, stunned the home crowd with a 14-12 victory.
The win allowed Victoria (9-5) to remain in first place, 11脷2 games in front of Wenatchee in the race for the North Division鈥檚 second-half title and the playoff spot that goes with it.
Victoria鈥檚 ninth-inning rally began when GreyWolves reliever Daniel Caruso allowed the first seven HarbourCats he faced to reach base.
The 鈥機ats would send 11 hitters to the plate in the inning.
Jackson Thoreson was playing his first game against his former Victoria HarbourCats teammates and he hit a home run and a double and collected four RBIs.
Thoreson hit a solo home run in the bottom of the fourth inning that helped the GreyWolves score four times in the inning and spell the end of HarbourCats starter Wyatt Boone鈥檚 night.
Boone, the righty who is headed to Seattle University in the fall, was making his first start for the 鈥機ats, but it didn鈥檛 go well. He gave up seven runs on seven hits and two walks.
Radd Thomas came in to try to stop the bleeding, but Thomas, out of UC-Santa Barbara, gave up three runs in two innings of work.
After Connor Whitney pitched a scoreless inning for Victoria, Clair Eccles made her fifth appearance of the season, and gave up two runs on two hits.
The two teams will play the second game of the series today at 5 p.m., with the series finale going Monday at 6:35 p.m.
