Bucs 3, Pilots 0
The Anchorage Bucs took the Mayor's Cup from the Anchorage Glacier Pilots on Thursday for the first time since 2005, winning Thursday's rubber match 3-0 in the annual three-game series at Mulcahy Stadium.
The Bucs needed two pitchers to shut out the Pilots, with starter Garrett Mundell striking out six and allowing two hits over eight innings and Anthony Gonsolin closing in the ninth.
Don Andre Clark drove in the first Bucs run with a third-inning double and Tyler Coolbaugh scored on a Ryan Leonards groundout to give the Bucs a 2-0 lead before the inning ended. Lawton Langford (two hits) scored the game's final run on a Matt Daugherty single in the eighth inning.
ABL LEAGUE
STANDINGS
Team W L Pct GB
Mat-Su Miners 19 11 .633 -
Goldpanners 17 10 .630 ½
Anchorage Bucs 17 12 .586 1½
Peninsula Oilers 15 13 .536 3
Glacier Pilots 14 17 .452 5½
Chugiak Chinooks 5 24 .172 13½
Thursday's Results
Bucs 3, Pilots 0
Goldpanners vs. Oilers, late
Friday's schedule
Chinooks at Miners, 1 p.m., Hermon Brothers Field
Oilers at Bucs, 4 p.m., Mulcahy Stadium
Goldpanners at Pilots, 7 p.m., Mulcahy Stadium