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.
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