Flames improve to 10-5 with sweep of Wenatchee
The Hanford Flames A swept a home-and-home series with Wenatchee earlier this week.
On Tuesday, the Flames beat Wenatchee 5-3 and 4-1 on the road. Isaac Benard went 2-for-4 with a triple and an RBI in the opener, while Sawyer Henry pitched a complete game in the nightcap, allowing one hit and striking out nine.
Wednesday, the Flames (17-13) topped Wenatchee at home, winning 8-3 and 11-3 to improve to 10-5 in Central Washington League play.
Tuesday
Hanford 310 000 1 — 5 11 0
Wenatchee 000 102 0 — 3 10 1
Taylor Lindquist, Ryan Colson (7) and Aaron Enderlin; Crowe and Burch. Highlights—Mitch Godwin (H) 2x4, Isaac Benard (H) 2x4, 3B, RBI; Brady Heid (H) 2B; Colson (H) 2x4, 3B; Enderlin (H) 2B; Wirth (W) 3x3, HR.
Hanford 200 010 1 — 4 7 3
Wenatchee 001 000 0 — 1 1 1
Sawyer Henry and Jon Miles; James and Burch. Highlights—Henry (H) 9K; Heid (H) 2R, 3B; Benard (H) 2B, 2 RBIs; Colson (H) 2x3, 2B; Miles (H) 2x3, 2B.
Wednesday
Wenatchee 000 210 0 — 3 6 0
Hanford 300 131 x — 8 11 3
Blankenship, Reynolds (6) and Burch; Jalen DeVine and Jon Miles. Highlights—Heid (H) 2x4, 2R; David Juergens (H) 2x4; Benard (H) 2x3; Ryan Colson (H) 2B; Miles (H) 2x3, 2 RBIs; McKaden Manderbach (H) 2x3.
Wenatchee 000 210 0 — 3 6 3
Hanford 401114 x — 11 10 0
Burch, Reynolds (5) and Cortell; Tanner Heiman and Benard. Highlights—Godwin (H) 2x3 3R; Heid (H) 3x4, 2 2B, 2R; Benard (H) 2B; Anthony Porcaro (H) 2x4, HR, 2 RBIs, 2R.
Junior Legion:The Hanford Flames won their first two games at the Bomber Bowl tournament in Richland, shutting out the Pasco Sun Devils 10-0 and then edging the Kennewick Phantoms 8-7 in eight innings.
Grant Cowen tossed a complete game against Pasco, giving up just five hits. In Game 2, Trevor Hammitt went 4-for-5 with a double. T.J. Rea led Kennewick with two hits.
The Richland Knights won two games at Bomber Bowl, beating the Kennewick Phantoms 5-4, thanks to RBIs from Chad Miller and Lakota Wills, and then topping the Pasco Rebels 13-5. Kade Musick and Garrett Guffey combined for five hits and two RBIs.
Eastlake Wood Bat Tournament: The Southridge Bandits topped the Kennewick Dusters 7-5 on Jake Kirchoff’s 2-run double in the bottom of the sixth inning, erasing a 5-2 deficit in the process.
The Bandits also played to a 5-5 tie against Eastlake, as Tate Spivey’s three-run double in the eighth tied it up.
Babe Ruth: The Tri-City Badgers topped The Stanfield Baseball Club 4-2 in the first game of a doubleheader Wednesday.
Stanfield won Game 2 12-8 thanks to three RBIs from Ryan Bailey.
This story was originally published June 26, 2014 at 11:51 PM with the headline "Flames improve to 10-5 with sweep of Wenatchee."