Hobie Sports holds off Angels

Starting pitcher Alex Germano and closer Dillon Pierce combined

efforts to strikeout 10, and the pair accounted for five runs in

leading Hobie Sports past the San Juan Capistrano Angels, 6-5, at San

Juan Sports Park.

Hobie improved to 6-0 overall but had to come from behind to

remain unbeaten.

Down 1-0, Hobie pieced together a walk to Ty Pierce, a single by

Matt Moisen and walks to Eli Viszolay and Cole Kennedy, for two,

second inning runs and a 2-1 lead.

The Angels responded with a run in the bottom of the second to tie

the game again, but Dillon Pierce singled and Germano hit a sacrifice

fly to score Pierce to give Hobie a 3-2 advantage in the third.

Hobie again trailed, 4-3, through four innings but a lead-off

single by Dillon Pierce, followed by a RBI single by Ty Pierce, tied

the game at 4-4.

Dillon Pierce’s pitching shut down the Angels in the fifth and

sixth innings to keep the game tied.

In the top of the seventh, Dillon Pierce reached base for a third

time in the game and scored when Germano tripled to left-center

field. Germano scored what turned out to be the winning run on an RBI

ground out by Ty Pierce for a 6-4 Hobie’s lead.

San Juan Capistrano scored an unearned run in the bottom of the

seventh but Dillon Pierce closed out the game by getting the final

Angels’ batter to look at a third strike.

In other Majors games:

VFW 6, Laguna Surf & Sport 1

Three pitchers worked the mound as VFW defeated Laguna Surf and

Sport.

Gabe Stansbury started the game and threw three, scoreless innings

of one-hit ball with seven strikeouts.

He was relieved by Alex Shusko who threw two innings and allowed

one base runner and one run with four strikeouts. Casey Miller

finished the game by striking out two in a scoreless, hitless sixth

inning.

VFW, which grabbed a 1-0 first inning lead when Shusko drove home

Stansbury, took control of the game with a pair of two-out rallies.