The difference between first place and eighth in the 13-team B.C. Premier Baseball League was most apparent Sunday.
Sixteen runs.
That was the scoring gap in a doubleheader featuring the top-drawer Langley Blaze and the Coquitlam Reds, who were drubbed 11-0 in the opening game of a doubleheader before falling 9-4 in the nightcap at Mundy Park.
The Blaze erupted to five runs in the top of the second inning on way to their first-game win, in which the Reds managed just one hit -- a single by Jordan Varga -- while surrendering 10. The Reds also committed four errors to none for Langley.
In game two, the Reds led 3-0 after two innings before the Blaze out-scored them 9-1 the rest of the way. Varga, Steven Kandborg and Mitchell Jackman had two hits apiece for the Reds, who dipped to 9-11. The Blaze are 18-3.
