Cowlitz rally to edge ’Cats and avoid sweep

COWLITZ 6 VICTORIA 5

The Cowlitz Black Bears rallied from as 5-0 seventh-inning deficit to defeat the Victoria HarbourCats 6-5 in the bottom of the 13th inning on Sunday in West Coast League baseball action in Washington state.

The Black Bears avoided a Victoria sweep as the three-game series concluded.

Victoria is 4-5 in second half of the season and 18-18 overall in the North Division. The Black Bears are 4-5 in the second half and 14-22 overall in the South Division.

Victoria won the first game in Cowlitz 4-3 on Friday night and the second game 3-2 on Saturday night.

Following the WCL all-star game tonight in Port Angeles — in which HarbourCats pitchers Garrett Goodall and Tyler Yoshihara and slugger Jeddediah Fagg will compete — Victoria returns to Wilson’s Group Stadium at Royal Athletic Park on Wednesday evening. That will be to begin a three-game home set against the Corvallis Knights in a reprise of the 2017 WCL playoff final.

Meanwhile, HarbourCats coaches Brian McRae and Todd Haney, along with James Lofton and 2003 all-star pitcher Shawn Chacon, will conduct a free MLB Players Alumni Association clinic for youth players on Thursday from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Royal Athletic Park.

McRae, Haney, Lofton and Chacon among them combined for 1,732 games in a total of 24 MLB seasons with 545 RBIs.

Island youth players can register for the clinic at baseballalumni.com.