Ikaika Avoids Series Sweep
July 4, 2010 - Golden Baseball League (GBL)
Orange County Flyers News Release
FULLERTON, Calif. (July 3, 2010) -- Na Koa Ikaika Maui avoided a sweep in a runaway win over the Flyers, 10-4, at Goodwin Field in the second game of a doubleheader on Saturday night. Maui scored five insurance runs in the seventh inning to hold onto first place in the GBL South Division.
Wes Ethridge pitched a complete game (seven innings) picking up his third win of the year scattering nine hits, giving up four runs (two earned), while striking out two. Kim picked up his first loss of the season, going four innings, giving up two runs, and striking out seven.
Orange County struck for three runs in the first inning as Maui committed three errors. Steve Boggs and Derek Perren led off the bottom of the first with singles, and Jimmy Rohan reached on an error by Ikaika shortstop Gered Mochizuki that scored Boggs. A Keith Ginter ground out RBI and Sergio Pedroza's sac fly RBI gave OC the early 3-0 lead.
Maui got on the board on a Mochizuki RBI single with one out in the top of the third to snap Byung-Hyun Kim s scoreless innings pitched streak at 13 2/3 innings, a string of scoreless innings that dated back to June 18.
Ikaika took the lead in the fourth. With the bases loaded and one out, pitcher Wes Ethridge reached base on a Flyers error that cashed Aaron Asher from third. Kim struck out the next batter, his seventh of the game, before giving up a three-run triple to Mochizuki, giving Maui a 5-3 lead.
Kim finished the game pitching four innings, giving up four runs (two earned) on five hits, while striking out seven and walking two. Bryan Harris came in in relief, striking out four as he pitched a scoreless fifth and sixth innings. Kim's counterpart Wes Ethridge pitched a strong six innings giving up four runs while striking out two.
The Flyers cut the deficit to one after Derek Perren singled in Alex Jamieson after his leadoff double to get within one run, 5-4 in the bottom of the fourth inning.
Up 5-4 into the top of the seventh, Maui added an insurance run after Gered Mochizuki singled to leadoff the inning, former Flyer, Mark Okano blooped a ball to left-center that drove in Mochizuki to extend the lead to 6-4. Maui did not stop there, with two outs in the top of the seventh, Paul Nishimura tripled, Maui's second triple of the game, to drive in two runs and the next batter Higa doubled down the left field line for a 9-4 lead over the Flyers. With two outs, the nightmare inning continued, when Ethridge helped his on cause getting his first hit of the night, and second RBI of the game for a 10-4 lead, to cap off a 5 run seventh for Maui.
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