Today in the Alaska Baseball League

Standings

W L Pct. GB Overall

Miners 7 2 .777 -- 9-4-1

Oilers 5 1 .833 1/2 10-3

Bucs 3 2 .600 2 8-11

AIA 5 7 .417 3 1/2 8-7

Glacier Pilots 1 9 .100 6 1/2 4-13-1

SCHEDULE AND RESULTS

Saturday's Results

Miners 3, Glacier Pilots 1

Goldpanners 2, Bucs 0

Oilers 5, AIA 3 (14 innings)

Today's Games

Fairbanks Goldpanners at Bucs, Mulcahy Stadium, 2 p.m.

AROUND THE HORN

-- Prime pitching produced prosperity in the Alaska Baseball League on Saturday night, when the boys on the bump lorded over batters.

Mat-Su Miners starter Jeff Gonzales and three relievers combined for a four-hitter to earn the league leaders a 3-1 victory over the last-place Anchorage Glacier Pilots at Hermon Brothers Field in Palmer.

Gonzales allowed just three hits and one run in six innings, and did not surrender a hit until there were two outs in the fifth inning. Jacob Brewer, Mark Anderson and Matt Applegate each threw a scoreless inning of relief, with Applegate bagging the save. Glacier Pilots starter Christian Belleque proved strong, too, allowing just four hits and one run in seven innings.

Adam Martin's two-run single off Pilots reliever Phillip Walby in the eight inning plate the go-ahead run and an insurance run. The Miners received an RBI single from Kevin Lum in the third inning.

The Pilots scored their run in the sixth, when Keenyn Walker singled, advanced to second on a groundout, stole third base and scored on a throwing error by the catcher.

-- At Mulcahy Stadium in Anchorage, Fairbanks Goldpanners starter Arturo Reyes and two relievers handcuffed the Anchorage Bucs for a mere five singles and spearheaded a 2-0 nonleague win by the visitors.

Reyes did not allow a hit until Boomer Collins' one-out single in the sixth. He went six innings and allowed just two hits. Mac Acker furnished 2 23 innings of relief and Ryan Thompson secured the final out for his third save.

Robbie Buller delivered an RBI single for the Panners in the fourth inning to generate his team-leading 23rd RBI, and Matt Ivanoff smacked a sacrifice fly in the sixth. Bucs starter Brad Drust scattered seven hits and allowed just two runs in seven innings to take a tough-luck loss.

-- In Kenai, the Peninsula Oilers, actually the home team against the AIA Fire, scored four runs in the top of the 14th inning to gain a 5-3 league victory.

Troy Channing's bases-loaded walk delivered the winning run. Tanner Rust, the Oiler right fielder who gunned down the potential winning run to end the bottom of the ninth with the score tied 1-1, added a two-run single in the 14th. A Fire error allowed another run to score on the play.

The Fire scored two runs in the bottom of the 14th.