Standings
W L Pct. GB Overall
Oilers 5 1 .833 1/2 10-3
Miners 7 2 .778 -- 9-4-1
Bucs 3 2 .600 2 8-12
AIA 5 7 .417 31/2 8-7
Glacier Pilots 1 9 .100 61/2 4-13-1
SCHEDULE AND RESULTS
Saturday's Results
Miners 3, Glacier Pilots 1
Goldpanners 2, Bucs 0
Oilers 5, AIA 3 (14 innings)
Sunday's Result
Goldpanners 5, Bucs 3
Today's Games
Peninsula Oilers at Anchorage Bucs, Mulcahy Stadium, 7 p.m.
AIA Fire at Fairbanks Goldpanners, Growden Park, 7 p.m.
AROUND THE HORN
-- Take away the Anchorage Bucs six non-league games with the Fairbanks Goldpanners and they'd have a winning record.
The Panners jumped out to a 5-0 lead Sunday afternoon at Mulcahy Stadium and emerged victorious, 5-3, to sweep their three-game weekend series in Anchorage and their six-game season set with the Bucs.
The defeat dropped the Bucs to 8-12 overall; they still boast an above-.500 mark in the league at 3-2.
Fairbanks' Matt Ivanoff hit a two-run triple in Sunday's three-run fourth inning and Lonnie Kaupilla also collected two RBIs for the game.
The Bucs had a chance to tie the contest in the ninth inning but Goldpanner reliever Mike Rivera struck out Jamison Rowe and Logan Davis with the tying runs aboard, picking up his second save of the summer.
Anchorage returns to ABL duties at 7 p.m. tonight, hosting the Kenai Peninsula Oilers.
-- The Goldpanners are now 15-2 under 14th-year manager and college baseball icon Jim Dietz, 72.
Dietz, the head coach at San Diego State University for 31 years (1972-2002), was inducted into the American Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame in 2002.
A former skipper of the Anchorage Glacier Pilots (1983-84), Dietz managed the Panners from 1971-77 (winning four NBC national titles), 1990-1993 and 2009 through this season.
Sunday's game was Dietz' last 2011 appearance in Anchorage. He, and the Goldpanners, will be back in 2012 -- we hope.
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