Anchorage Daily News

Three Peninsula Oilers pitchers combined on a three-hitter in the Alaska Baseball League on Friday night to snap the Anchorage Glacier Pilots' eight-game winning streak with a 2-0 victory Coral Seymour Memorial Ballpark in Kenai.

Starter Ross Humes, set-up man Brandon Berl and closer Erik Draxton combined for eight strikeouts and did not walk a batter in a game that took just 1 hour, 54 minutes to complete.

The league-leading Pilots had won six straight ABL games entering Friday. The Oilers pulled within 1 1/2 games of the Pilots in the ABL standings.

The Oilers plated both their runs in the seventh, when team-leading hitter Anthony Aliotti providing an RBI double and later scoring on a passed ball.

Bucs 5, Panners 2

Red Patterson pitched a complete-game four-hitter to help the Anchorage Bucs beat the Fairbanks Goldpanners at Growden Memorial Park in Fairbanks.

Patterson moved to 3-1 on the season with the win. The righty struck out seven Panners and had shutout heading into the ninth before giving up a two-run homer to Fairbanks third baseman Raoul Torrez.

Miners 3, Ballerz 1

Andrew Berger pitched five innings for the win and Jason Erickson homered to help Mat-Su top the Big City Ballerz, the Anchorage Adult Baseball League all-stars, at Palmer's Hermon Brothers Field.

Ballerz center fielder Charlton Ferreira went 1 for 3 with two stolen bases and a run scored. Ferreira didn't fare as well on the mound, though, giving up Erickson's shot. Andrew Ward threw six innings of five-hit ball in the losing effort for the Ballerz.

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