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July 19, 2025

Bellingham, WA – The Bellingham Bells pushed a run across in the bottom of the ninth inning to eke out a 2-1 win over the Victoria HarbourCats in West Coast League action Saturday night at Joe Martin field in Bellingham.

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The game was a tense pitching duel throughout, with ‘Cats starter Tommy Bridges and Bells starter Cameron Young keeping things tight through four innings.

Young in particular retired 12 batters in a row after allowing a first-inning single to Jack Johnson. The Bells gave him a lead in the fourth, getting a run off Bridges on a sacrifice fly to hold a 1-0 lead.

Victoria then had a chance to answer in the fifth, loading the bases with one out, but Bells reliever Will Franklin came in and put out the fire to keep the Bells in the lead.

Victoria finally clawed their way on to the scoreboard in the top of the eighth thanks to an RBI-single from Johnson, his second hit of the game, scoring Connor Ross who earlier walked.

In the ninth, Victoria had another stellar chance to take the lead, loading the bases with nobody out, but a big double-play and strikeout ended the threat and sent the game to the bottom of the inning at 1-1.

In the bottom of the frame, Andrew Lamb lead off with an infield single and then advanced to second on a questionable balk call against HarbourCats reliever Garret Villa. Villa then retired the next two batters, but then a throwing error by shortstop Tanner Beltowski allowed the winning run to scamper home and give the Bells the 2-1 win.

The Bells win spoiled solid pitching performances from Bridges, as well as relievers Ryne Palmer and Garrett Brooks, who combined, allowed just two Bells hits in their eight innings of work.

The HarbourCats will now need to quickly regroup as the rubber match in the series goes Sunday afternoon in a 1:30 pm start.  Logan Rumberg is the scheduled starter for Victoria.

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They then return to Wilson’s Group Stadium on Tuesday for the first of a two-game set with the Dub Sea Fish Sticks, and then a return engagement with the Victoria Mavericks on Thursday.  The Wenatchee AppleSox then come into town for a three game set starting Friday.

Tickets for all those games are selling fast and are available in advance at http://harbourcats.com/tickets or at the harbourCats office at 101-1814 Vancouver Street.

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WENATCHEE, WA — The Nanaimo NightOwls know this it the time to get hot, with the West Coast League in a pressure-packed race to the playoffs.

The first step got off on the wrong foot, with an 11-1 loss to the AppleSox in Wenatchee. Both teams are in the mix for one of four North Division playoff positions.

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The NightOwls got two hits each from Trevor Goldenetz, Raoul Fabian Jr and Talan Zenk, but it wasn’t enough to offset some big innings by Wenatchee.

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Aidan Boice started and was effective, but gave up some two-out hits that burned him. Jakin Rohne was very effective out of the pen for the NightOwls.

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The NightOwls stay in Wenatchee for the weekend series, playing Saturday and Sunday evenings, returning home on an early ferry Monday morning. On Tuesday, the Corvallis Knights make their first ever appearance at Serauxmen Stadium with a three-game series that continues Wednesday and Thursday. Tuesday is the Christmas in July celebration at Serauxmen.

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July 18, 2025

Bellingham, WA – The Victoria HarbourCats used three Bellingham errors and an offensive explosion to build a 10-0 lead and then then held on for a 10-6 win over the Bells in West Coast League action Friday night at Joe Martin field in Bellingham.

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Victoria’s first three runs came directly from three Bellingham errors, one in the fourth inning, one in the fifth and one in the seventh, the latter of which sparked three more hits, including a two-RBI double from Isaiah Afework and four more runs to break the game open.

The HarbourCats followed that inning with four more in the eighth inning to bump the lead to 10-0, the first of which came on an RBI-double from Jack Johnson and the last three of which came on a Dillon Lopez three-run home run to right field, his sixth hit in the last four games.

Meanwhile, Victoria starter Shea Lake had perhaps his best outing of the season, going five complete and scoreless innings, giving up just one hit, walking two and striking out seven.

Hudson Lance came on in relief for the sixth, seventh and eighth innings and he was solid for the most part, although the Bells did get to him for three runs in the eighth to get on the board.

The Bells would make it interesting in the ninth, as Ethan McNish-Heider walked the bases loaded and then walked in a run, before Austin Lindsey came in to put out the fire.  The Bells would get a single and sac fly to score two more, but that would be it as Lindsey got a strike out and fly out to end the game.

In addition to two-hit games from Lopez, Johnson and Jake Butler, Logan Shepherd  had a three-hit night, while Tanner Beltowski walked and scored twice to pace the offence.

The win moves the HarbourCats North Division leading second half record to 11-2 and their overall record to 23-16, where they sit in second, just 1.5 games back of these same Bells.

Game two of the series goes Saturday night at 6:35 pm with All-Star Tommy Bridges scheduled to get the start.

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