Anchorage Daily News

A day after riding a masterful pitching performance to victory, the Anchorage Glacier Pilots ended up on the short side of a solid mound effort Saturday.

The Peninsula Oilers capitalized on a leaky Anchorage defense and scattered eight hits among three pitchers to get the 5-2 win at Mulcahy.

The Oilers got on the board in the third inning when Nathaniel Dennis and Ryan McCurdy were both hit by pitches to lead off.

After a sacrifice bunt, Anthony Aliotti hit an RBI groundout. Then shortstop Joseph Scott flubbed a ball off the bat of Francis Larson for another run.

The Pilots got a run back in the fourth on Luke Yoder's RBI single after Jonathan Jones doubled to lead off.

But the Pilots' gloves betrayed them again in the fifth when two errors on the same play allowed two runs to score.

Another error in the ninth led to the Oilers' fifth run. The Pilots committed five errors on the day.

Bucs 7, Fire 1

Tyler Lockwood of Sugar Land, Texas, tossed seven shutout innings as the Anchorage Bucs handed Athletes in Action its second consecutive lopsided loss, a 7-1 setback at Mulcahy Stadium.

The Anchorage Glacier Pilots beat AIA 10-0 on Friday as two Anchorage pitchers combined on a one-hitter.

The victory moved the Bucs into a three-way tie for first place early in the Alaska Baseball League season with Mat-Su and Peninsula. All three squads are 2-1.

The Fire broke a string of 17 straight scoreless innings with two outs in the ninth inning.

A first-inning single by Paul Goldschmidt drove in two runs and gave the Bucs all the runs they would need.

AIA's 6-foot-5 starting pitcher Alex Fambrough gave up six runs on four hits.

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