Falcons Drop Series Opener

July 29, 2015 - West Coast League (WCL)
Kelowna Falcons News Release

Justin Flores Leads off First for the Kelowna Falcons
(Kelowna Falcons, Credit: Kyle Anderson)

Four Kelowna errors lead to 3 runs for Wenatchee early, and a late comeback attempt fell short.

Wenatchee would score the 1st run of the ballgame in the top half of inning 1 as an error and wild pitch put a runner on 3rd with 2 out. An infield single from Mitchell Holland scored the run, and he moved to 2nd on another Kelowna error.

The Falcons responded in the bottom half, scoring once on a Sacrifice Fly from Justin Flores to score Grant Meylan.

Wenatchee put 2 runs up in the 2nd inning off a Sac Fly from Jordan Rathbone in his WCL debut, and another run scored when Joey Jansen reached on an error.

Wenatchee added another in the 4th with a Rathbone RBI double, and scored two runs on five hits in the 5th off of Curtis Taylor.

Taylor worked 5 innings, gave up 10 hits and 3 earned runs while striking out 5.

Flores hit a 2-run homerun in the 6th to make it 6-3. With the bomb, Flores ties the single-season record for RBI's as a Kelowna Falcon with 33, and moves into a tie for 2nd in Homeruns with 6.

Kelowna added another in the 8th inning but could not score as the game ended on a fly out to centerfield.

With the loss, Kelowna's record moves to 27-15, while Wenatchee moves to 20-23.

Kelowna will send Nat Hamby to the mound on Wednesday night at Elks Stadium, with hot dogs on sale for just $1 all night thanks to Maple Leaf Foods. First pitch is 6:35.

Justin Flores Leads off First for the Kelowna Falcons (Kyle Anderson)

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