Oak Harbor, Everett split / Baseball
Published 1:30 am Thursday, April 4, 2019
After beating Everett in a 3-2 thriller at home Tuesday, April 2, the Oak Harbor High School baseball team booted away a chance to upend the Seagulls again, dropping an error-filled effort 9-5 Wednesday in Everett.
The two clubs meet in Oak Harbor at 4 p.m. Friday, April 5, to finish their three-game series.
Oak Harbor 3, Everett 2
The Wildcats were down 2-1 in the bottom of the seventh with two outs, then rallied for two runs to snare the win.
Noah Meffert singled with one out to start the uprising. After another out, Taylor Rummel walked. Thomas Anderson followed with a sharp single through the ride-side hole, scoring Meffert on a close play at the plate. The throw skipped by the catcher and Oak Harbor coach Cody Anderson aggressively sent Rummel home, and the Wildcat slid under the tag with the winning run.
Oak Harbor scored its other run in the fourth. Rummel walked and scored after singles by Anderson and Andrew Dixon.
Everett scored its two runs in the fifth on two hits and an error off Oak Harbor starter Jacksyn Pawlowicz, who pitched the first five and a third innings and allowed only one earned run. Dixon completed the game for the Wildcats.
Anderson finished with three hits and Donny Kloewer had two. Austin Boesch, Meffert, Andrew Dixon and Joseph Dixon all singled.
Everett 9, Oak Harbor 5
Oak Harbor committed six errors in the game, allowing the Seagulls to plate eight unearned runs.
The most damage came in the second inning when Everett scored seven runs, all unearned and all with two outs. The big blow was a two-run home run by Caden Lockhart.
The Seagulls (4-4, 6-4) tacked on single runs in the fourth and fifth innings.
Oak Harbor, down 8-0, scored twice in the fifth. Boesch walked and eventually scored on Kloewer’s groundout. Meffert reached on a fielder’s choice and scored on Anderson’s double.
The Wildcats (3-3, 4-4) added three runs in the sixth. With two outs, Caleb Fitzgerald singled, Boesch and Meffert followed with doubles, then Kloewer and Rummel singled.
Kloewer and Aidan McCarthy finished with two hits; Boesch, Meffert, Rummel, Anderson and Fitzgerald had one each.
