With less than a week to go in the regular season, the Coquitlam Reds are in the middle of the pack in the B.C. Premier Baseball League standings, a game behind the fifth place Victoria Eagles.
The team racked up a pair of wins on the weekend but still have a long way to go if they hope to catch up with some of the elite teams in the league.
On Sunday, the Reds took on the Eagles at Mundy Park, sending the visiting islanders home with a couple of losses following an afternoon doubleheader.
Coquitlam wasted no time in getting on the scoreboard in the first game, batting in runners Jordan Zazulak and Cameron Williams in the second inning.
But Victoria was able to keep the game close when Brandon Feldman was batted home by Ben Goertzen in the third inning. Feldman would later touch home plate himself in the sixth.
The Reds defence, however, was able to hang on in the seventh and push the game into extra innings.
In the eighth, Coquitlam's Cameron Williams sent a single to left field, allowing runner Hayden Jaco to break the tie and win the game.
Curtis Taylor got the win on the mound for the Reds.
Victoria came out swinging in the second game of the day, putting up two runs in the first inning and leading for most of the game.
However, the visitor's defence completely fell apart in the fifth, allowing the Reds to score seven runs from Jaco, Brandon Becking, Max Hollingworth, Cameron Williams, Dalton Anderson, Austin MacDonald and T.J. McCullough. The team will get ready this week for a meeting with the White Rock Tritons on Saturday on the road before heading to Vancouver to take on the Cannons on Sunday.
