Sedro-Woolley rallied back from a 3-0 deficit to slip by North Whidbey 6-3 in extra innings in the first game of the 10/11 Little League Baseball District Tournament Tuesday, July 5, at Coupeville’s Rhododendron Park.

North Whidbey will get another shot at Sedro-Woolley when to two teams meet at 6 p.m. Thursday at Rhododendron Park in a loser-out game.

Anacortes whipped Sedro-Woolley Wednesday. The North Whidbey/Sedro-Woolley winner will have to defeat Anacortes twice to advance to state. Those games will be 6 p.m. Friday and noon Saturday.

In Tuesday’s game, North Whidbey scored all of its runs in the second inning. Christian Gisvold walked and Parker Anderson was hit by a pitch. With two outs, Nathaniel Dipinto drove the ball by the Sedro-Woolley right fielder and circled the bases while Gisvold and Parker scored in front of him.

North Whidbey created numerous other scoring opportunities but couldn’t punch in any runs. It put runners on in every inning and left nine stranded.

The biggest blow came in the bottom of the sixth inning. With the score tied at 3-3, North Whidbey loaded the bases with no outs and needed just one run to win the game. Sedro-Woolley escaped with a strikeout and a pair of ground outs, the first forcing a runner at the plate.

Sedro-Woolley scored its first run on a long home run by Konnor McKinley in the fourth inning. It tied the game on a walk and back-to-back throwing errors in the top of the fifth inning.

Those were the first errors committed by the North Whidbey defense in the game.

In the seventh, two more errors, a single and a passed ball allowed Sedro-Woolley to plate three more runs.

Jacob Figarelle, Gisvold and Dipinto recorded the only NW hits.

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Holden Jesus squares around to bunt for North Whidbey. Photo by Jim Waller.