Peyton Sanders singled home Ethan Valtierra with two outs in the top of the seventh to put the Tigers ahead, then Trevin Long sealed the win with 1-2-3 bottom of the seventh as the Battle Ground baseball team opened its season with a 5-4 win at Rogers-Puyallup on Saturday.
Long pitched two hitless innings of relief to pick up the win. Sanders finished 2 for 4 with 2 RBI and Jack Hotchkiss was 2 for 4 with an RBI for the Tigers.
Stars of the day
- Diego Bejar, Evergreen boys soccer, scored a pair of first-half goals in the Plainsmen’s 4-0 win over Rochester.
- Markku Laukkanen, Camas boys soccer, scored the Papermakers’ lone goal in a 1-1 tie with Olympia.
