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Sweets Defeat AppleSox 4-0 on Opening Night

June 3, 2017 - West Coast League (WCL)
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The Sweets celebrated the beginning of the 2017 WCL season by blanking the Wenatchee AppleSox 4-0 at Borleske Stadium on Friday night.

RHP Billy Dimlow (Emory), RHP Milo Mincin (Whitman) and RHP Darius Vines (Oxnard) combined on a six-hit shutout with 11 strikeouts between them.

2B Cameron Deere (Brown) and 3B Nick Nyquist (Gonzaga) led the way offensively. Deere picked up hits in each of his last three at-bats and Nyquist blasted a two-run home run over the left field fence in the fourth inning.

Dimlow, beginning his second summer in Walla Walla, started for the Sweets. After stranding a pair of runners in each of the first two innings, Dimlow settled in. He would go on to fire five scoreless frames, allowing four hits and one walk while striking out five.

Dimlow retired each of the last seven batters he faced.

Meanwhile, the Sweets offense found a groove. Facing RHP Griffin Davis (Central Washington), the Walla Walla bats began hitting early.

Nyquist led off the second inning with a single and promptly stole second base. He was driven home two batters later by Joseph Zimmer's (Whitman) ground-ball single.

The Sweets earned a bit of breathing room in the fourth inning. Ahead 1-0 heading into the frame, they grew their lead quickly. Deere singled on the first pitch of the inning and Nyquist, on the very next offering from Davis, promptly sent a fastball sailing over the deep part of the fence in left - to the right of the hand-operated scoreboard.

It was Nyquist's fifth home run in a Walla Walla uniform.

RHP Milo Mincin relieved Dimlow in the sixth inning. The submarining righty was immediately tough to solve. He provided two hitless innings out of the pen to bridge the game from the starter Dimlow to the back end of the bullpen.

The Sweets tacked on another run in the seventh. RF Jake Suddleson (Harvard) drove home Deere, his ex-high school teammate at Harvard-Westlake HS, who had doubled to lead off the frame.

The 4-0 margin held up as the game's final score.

Mincin faltered a bit in the eighth. After striking out the first batter he faced, DH Tanner Williams (Concordia-Portland), Mincin issued a walk, a hit by pitch, and a single to the top of Wenatchee's lineup.

With the bases full of AppleSox and the game winding down, manager Frank Mutz called on Vines to shut the door.

Sitting at 88-92 mph with his fastball, and peppering the AppleSox hitters with a big breaking curveball, Vines escaped trouble masterfully by striking out RF Jalen Garcia (Montana State Billings) and 2B Adrian Vela (Whitman) to escape trouble in the eighth.

Vines capped off the night with two more Ks in the ninth. He ended the game with an exclamation mark, punching out the leadoff hitter, CF Cole McKenzie (Yakima Valley CC), swinging for the final out.

Dimlow takes the win. Vines earned the save. Griffin Davis took the loss for Wenatchee.

The Sweets and AppleSox will be back in action on Saturday night. First pitch is scheduled at 7:05 from Borleske Stadium.

LHP Scott Parker (San Francisco) will start for the Sweets. He will be opposed by Washington commit, RHP Keegan Romig.

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