Two days after picking up their second win of the B.C. Premier Baseball League season, the Whalley Chiefs dropped two games to the visiting Victoria Mariners Sunday afternoon at Whalley Stadium.
The Eagles rocked three Whalley pitchers for 17 hits in game one, winning by a 9-1 margin. Malcolm Upton drove in the only Chiefs run, scoring Garrett Hasner with a sacrifice fly in the fourth inning.
The Chiefs outhit Victoria 9-6 in the rematch, but a seventh-inning rally fell one run short in a 6-5 loss.
The Eagles took a 3-2 lead into the final inning, and stretched the lead to four runs before Whalley came up to bat in the bottom half of the inning. They scored three times, but couldn’t push a tying run across the plate.
Hasner and Colton Wright had two hits each to pace the Chiefs offense, with Hasner collecting his second double of the season.
Graham Bailey took the loss for Whalley, allowing three runs (two unearned) on three hits and five walks. He fanned six Eagles batters over six innings.
Conner Chorpita collected three hits, including his third double of the season, and drove in two runs to lead the Chiefs to a 5-3 victory over the Coquitlam Reds last Thursday night in Whalley.
Down 2-0 after the Reds batted in the top of the first inning, the Chiefs got on the scoreboard when Chorpita singled to score Ryan Pouwells. Mitchell Anderson drove in Hasner with a single, and Chorpita scored on a wild pitch to put the home side up 3-2.
In the fifth inning, Chorpita earned his second RBI with a double that scored Pouwells, then scored his second run when Anderson reached first base on an error.
Brandon Bohn went the distance on the mound for Whalley, getting the win while striking out seven Reds batters. Coquitlam scored their three runs on six hits and a walk.
The losses dropped the Chiefs to 2-11 (won-lost), five games out of a playoff position. The 2-10 White Rock Tritons are the visitors tonight at Whalley Stadium. First pitch is at 7 p.m.
