The Anchorage Bucs took another game from the Anchorage Glacier Pilots on Thursday, claiming a 4-2 Alaska Baseball League victory at Mulcahy Stadium to run their season record against their rivals to 3-1.
The Bucs (4-7 ABL, 5-8 overall) roughed up Pilots starter Drake Robison, chasing him in the fourth inning after building a 4-1 lead. Aaron Soto pitched seven innings for the win, striking out six and allowing six hits.
Stephen Trosclair and Justin Jacobs both drove in runs in the Bucs' three-run first inning, and Trosclair added an RBI double in the third.
The Pilots (5-8, 5-9) stranded eight runners, including two in the ninth inning.
In other action Thursday, the ABL's top two teams met at Lee Jordan Field in Chugiak, where the Mat-Su Miners blanked the Chugiak Chinooks 4-0.
The teams combined for 19 hits, 11 by the Miners, but neither team enjoyed timely hitting. Mat-Su (9-3, 11-3) left 12 men on base, and the Chinooks (8-4, 9-6) left 11.
Nyles Nygaard was 2 for 4 for the Miners and drove in a first-inning run with a sacrifice fly and a ninth-inning run with a double.
In Kenai, the Peninsula Oilers buried the Seattle Studs 11-0 in a nonleague game. Jordan Washam smacked a bases-loaded double to drive in three of Peninsula's runs in an eight-run fourth inning. The Oilers (4-4, 5-7) pounded out 13 hits, five for extra bases.
In Fairbanks, the Everett Merchants of Washington swept the Goldpanners in a nonleague doubleheader. Everett won the first seven-inning game 6-3 and the second 6-2. Designated hitter Ryan Sells wielded a potent bat, going 3 for 4 with three RBIs in the first game and 2 for 3 wit two RBIs in the second game.
On Saturday, the Bucs host the Seattle Studs and the Chinooks host the Pilots. Both games begin at 7 p.m.