After struggling to pick up wins much of the season, the Whidbey Island Nighthawks Legion A baseball team played .500 ball in tournaments the past two weekends, including taking fifth in the Kennewick Phantom Bash June 30-July 3.

The Nighthawks won two of four games in Kennewick, raising their record to 7-20.

The Whidbey club closes out the season with a tournament in Yakima this weekend.

At Kennewick, Whidbey Island defeated Lakeside 5-3, lost to the Crimson Cannons based out of Auburn 4-0, lost to the Columbia Basin River Dogs 6-1 and beat the host Phantoms 7-6.

In the win over Lakeside, Whidbey Island scored three runs in the fifth inning to break a 1-1 tie.

Walks to Jason Bergeron, Austin Boesch and Taylor Rummel, an error and a triple by Donny Kloewer resulted in the three runs. The Nighthawks also scored in the second inning on a walk to Dane Lucero, a single by Bergeron and a double by Joseph Dixon. In the sixth, Aaron Martinez walked and scored on Dixon’s third hit of the game.

Kloewer finished 2-3 with a double and triple.

Jack Lovendale picked up the pitching win.

The Crimson Cannons’ Josh Sivonen pitched a one-hitter with 12 strikeouts in the 4-0 win over Whidbey Island.

Kloewer singled with two outs in the sixth inning to break up the no-hitter. After walking the first two batters of the game, Sivonen allowed only two more Nighthawks to reach base.

The Nighthawks were also one-hit in the loss to the River Dogs. Andrew Dixon led off the seventh with a single to spoil Columbia Basin’s Hernandez bit for a no-hitter.

Whidbey Island’s Thomas Anderson scored on an error in the fourth inning.

North Whidbey built a 7-1 lead and then held on for the win over Kennewick, which scored two in the fifth, three in sixth and left two men stranded in the seventh.

The Nighthawks jumped out to a 4-0 lead with a pair of runs in each of the first two innings.

In the first, Boesch singled, Kloewer doubled, Anderson walked and Martinez singled to produce the two runs.

Walks to Bergeron and Rummel and singles by Anderson and Martinez led to the second-inning runs.

The Nighthawks finished their scoring with three runs in the fifth inning. Singles by Boesch and Lucero fueled the inning, which included walks to Lucero, Joseph Dixon and Bergeron and an error off the bat of Martinez.

Boesch, Martinez and Lucero each finished with two hits, and Aiden McCarthy pitched for the Nighthawks.