After losing for the fifth straight time to the Peninsula Oilers on Sunday night, the Miners would continue their dominance over the Anchorage Bucs with a 8-4 win on Monday night at Hermon Brothers Field.
Jeff Gonzales (Fr./Washington) went 7 strong innings for the Miners allowing 2 runs all earned on 7 hits with 3 walks and 4 strikeouts. Gonzales earned his first win of the season (1-2).
The Miners offense got started early on Monday night with a four run first inning. With one out Miners first baseman Cam Kneeland (Jr./Umass Lowell) smacked his 6th double of the season into the left field gap. Stephen Branca (Jr./Tennessee Wesleyan) who went 2 for 2 with 2 runs scored and a RBI, would then single up the middle to score Kneeland and give the Miners a 1-0 lead. With Branca on at first with 1 out Miners centerfielder Wesley Jones (Jr./Milligan) singled through the left side to extend his hitting streak to 8 games. After Miners leftfielder Adam Martin (Fr./Western Carolina) was hit by a pitch, Michael Gerlach (So./Cabrillo CC) would draw bases loaded walk to drive in his 4th run of the season and make it a 2-0 Miners lead. The Miners werent done yet as Kevin Lum (Jr./Oklahoma St.) reached on a fielding error by Bucs second baseman Jake Valdez (Fr./San Jose St.) scoring Jones. The Miners would get their 4th and final run of the inning when catcher Mason Guymon (Jr./Carson Newman) laid a sacrafice bunt down the first base line to score Martin giving the Miners a 4 spot in the bottom of the first inning.
The Miners would add another run in the third inning when Adam Martin doubled to right center to lead off. A batter later Martin was singled in by Kevin Lum to extend the Miners lead to 5-0.
The Miners werent done how ever as they would put up a 3 spot in the fourth inning. Tim Zier (Fr./San Diego St.) led off the bottom half of the fourth with single to the third baseman Ryan Palermo (Jr./UC Santa Barbara).Zier ended the night going 2 for 4. After a Ryan Ford (So./Middle Tennessee St.) fielders choice and a Cam Kneeland foul out, Stephen Branca singled to left field. With runners on first and second Wesley Jones doubled to left field to score Ford and put the Miners up 6-0. A batter later Adam Martin singled up the middle to score Branca and Jones and it was 8-0 Miners.
The Anchorage Bucs would not go with out a fight. The Bucs scored their first run in the fifth when Jake Valdez singled in Matthew Harjung (So./Missouri Baptist) to cut the Miners lead down to 8-1. Harjung, who went 2 for 3 with 2 runs scored and a RBI, would start another run producing inning in the seventh leading off with a double. Harjung would score the Bucs second run of the game on a Braden Shipley (Fr./Nevada) single to center.
Anchorage would go on to add two more runs in the eighth when Boomer Collins (Jr./Dallas Baptist) tripled to lead the inning off. Collins scored on a Ryan Palermo single. After a Matthew Harjung sacrafice fly the score was 8-4. Thats would be the final score of the ball game as Neal Dennison (So./Georgetown) shut down the Bucs in the ninth.
The loss went the Bradley Drust (So./Southern Illinois) who went 4 innings allowing 8 runs all earned on 9 hits. Drust falls to 0-4. With the win the Miners improve their record to 16-15 while the Bucs fall to 16-14.
The Miners will be in action at Hermon Brothers field Tuesday night when they meet the Peninsula Oilers for the last time this season. The game is scheduled for 6:00pm with gates opening at 5:00pm for baseball card day
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