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NorthPaws get best of Falcons
Canada Day weekend was productive for the Kamloops NorthPaws, who won two of three games against the Kelowna Falcons in West Coast League baseball action.
“The weekend was good for us,” Kamloops head coach Keith Francis said in a NorthPaws’ press release. “We played at their place on Friday and we played terrible. I am going to chalk it up to a long eight days on the road. We came home and had a nice big crowd the last two nights and played very well.”
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Hometown Kelowna (1414) bested Kamloops 14-4 on Friday, June 30.
The weekend series shifted on Saturday to Dearborn Ford Field at Norbrock Stadium, where the NorthPaws (7-20) bounced back with a 5-4 extrainnings victory over the Falcons on Canada Day in front of a crowd of more than 1,000.
Kelowna relief pitcher Thrasher Steed walked in the winning run in the bottom of the 11th inning.
Tyler Glowacki led the NorthPaws offensively, going 2-for-5 and scoring twice.
“These wins have been great,” Glowacki said in the press release. “The guys have been working really hard, but the balls haven’t fallen our way. It is starting to pay off. At the end of the day, how you regroup and regather — it is all about how you respond.”
Relief pitcher David Jeon picked up the victory on the mound.
MacLain Roberts started on the bump for Kamloops on Sunday and pitched five innings, allowing four hits, six walks and striking out six bat- ters to improve to 1-4 on the campaign, with 691 fans in attendance.
Anthony Manuel was 2-for-4 with an RBI for the Paws, who broke open a scoreless tie with two runs in the bottom of the third inning and went on to snare the shutout victory.
The NorthPaws were slated to begin a six-game road trip on Tuesday after KTW’s press deadline against the
Bells (17-7) in Bellingham. Kamloops will play next at Norbrock on Tuesday, July 11, when the Edmonton Riverhawks (7-20) come to town for a 6:35 p.m. start. The Riverhawks and NorthPaws were tied at the bottom of North Division standings as of Tuesday afternoon, 12.5 games back of the divisionleading Wenatchee AppleSox (18-6).
