Snapping a three-game skid, the Oak Harbor High School baseball team won 6-5 at Marysville Getchell Wednesday, March 27.
The win was the Wildcats’ first in conference play and came on the heels of a 2-0 loss to the Chargers in Oak Harbor Tuesday afternoon.
Oak Harbor (1-2, 2-3) and Marysville Getchell will complete their three-game series at 4 p.m. Friday, March 29, in Oak Harbor.
Marysville Getchell 2, Oak Harbor 0
The Chargers’ Sean Brown won the pitching duel Tuesday with Oak Harbor’s Jacksyn Pawlowiczs and Ethan Pace.
Brown used off-speed pitches to stymie the Wildcats, while tossing a five-hitter. He struck out only one and walked one.
Pawlowiczs also surrendered five hits; he struck out four and walked two.
Pace came on with runners on second and third and no outs in the seventh and put the Chargers down in order.
Getchell scored its first run in the fifth on a pair of errors.
In the seventh, a hit batter, single and sacrifice fly plated the other run.
Oak Harbor left a runner stranded on third base three times during the game.
Noah Meffert hit a double and single for the Wildcats, and Austin Boesch, Donny Kloewer and Andrew Dixon singled.
Oak Harbor 6, Marysville Getchell 5
After getting blanked over seven innings the previous day, Oak Harbor exploded for four runs in the first inning Wednesday.
The Wildcats tacked on two more runs in the fourth inning to build a 6-1 lead and then held on as the Chargers rallied for four runs in the bottom of the seventh.
In the first, singles by Boesch and Meffert got things started. After an out, an error off the bat of Thomas Anderson scored Boesch, and then Taylor Rummel singled in Meffert.
Andrew Dixon’s base hit drove in Anderson, and Caleb Fitzgerald was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to force in the fourth run.
Getchell scored an unearned run in the second inning, and then Oak Harbor added a pair in the fourth.
Joe Dixon and Fitzgerald began the fourth with base hits. Meffert’s sacrifice fly scored Dixon, and Fitzgerald scored on a double steal.
Getchell used two hits, two walks and a passed ball to rally in the seventh.
Jack Lovendale pitched the first five innings for Oak Harbor, surrendering three hits and an unearned run with three strikeouts and three walks.
Pace pitched a scoreless sixth.
Meffert came in relief of Noah Miller in the seventh and fanned the two batters he faced to secure the game.
Boesch, Meffert, Rummel, Aiden McCarthy, Andrew Dixon, Joe Dixon and Fitzgerald all singled for Oak Harbor.