Today in the Alaska Baseball League

Standings

W L Pct. GB Overall

Oilers 7 2 .778 -- 12-4

Miners 8 3 .727 -- 10-5-1

Bucs 4 4 .500 2 1/2 9-14

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

Glacier Pilots 2 10 .167 6 1/2 5-14-1

SCHEDULE AND RESULTS

Wednesday's Results

Glacier Pilots 6, Bucs 3

Miners 4, Oilers 2

Athletes in Action Fire at Fairbanks Goldpanners, rainout

Today's Games

Athletes in Action Fire at Fairbanks Goldpanners, Growden Memorial Park, 7 p.m.

Bucs at Pilots, Mulcahy Stadium, 7 p.m.

Peninsula Oilers at Mat-Su Miners, Hermon Brothers Field, 7 p.m.

AROUND THE HORN

-- The Anchorage Glacier Pilots used a five-run outburst in the sixth inning and Stefan Crichton's superb relief pitching Wednesday night to snap a three-game losing streak and register a 6-3 Alaska Baseball League victory at Mulcahy Stadium.

After Bucs right fielder Boomer Collins launched a two-run home run in the top of the fifth inning to give his club a 3-1 lead, the Pilots answered with an eruption. Dustin Torchio scored on a bases-loaded wild pitch, Clayton Eslick furnished a two-run single, Kavin Keyes contributed a sacrifice fly and Matt Vinson added another one.

Crichton went 3 1/3 scoreless innings and surrendered one hit.

Torchio delivered an RBI groundout in the third inning to give the Pilots a 1-0 lead. The Bucs countered in the fifth on Ryan Palermo's RBI double.

-- Four Mat-Su Miner pitchers combined on a four-hitter and struck out 10 Peninsula Oilers in a 4-2 victory Wednesday night at Hermon Brothers Field in Palmer to put the teams back in a first-place tie.

Miners starter David Gibson allowed three hits and two runs, and struck out four, in five innings. Ben Graff struck out two in one inning of hitless relief, Ryan Dull followed with two innings of one-hit ball in which he struck out two and Brandon Hedrick bagged the save with an inning of hitless relief in which he struck out two.

The Oilers suffered a tragedy of errors in the first inning -- their four errors allowed the Miners to score two runs without registering a hit.

Peninsula forged a 2-2 tie on Tanner Rust's two-run single in the fourth. But Mat-Su's Ryan Ford scored on a double steal in the fourth to give the home team a 3-2 lead, and Stephen Branca in the fifth inning, singled, stole second and third bases and scored on a wild pitch to pad the lead.