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Sunday: Oilers top Pilots for 4th straight victory

The Peninsula Oilers defeated the Anchorage Glacier Pilots 10-3 on Sunday in Alaska Baseball League play at Coral Seymour Memorial Park in Kenai.

The Oilers won for the fourth straight time and are now 13-3 at home this season.

Peninsula finishes up the regular season with three more games against the Pilots at Seymour Park — Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at 6 p.m.

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The Oilers will finish third in the ABL and be on the road for the playoffs.

Peninsula is 20-17, while the Mat-Su Miners are in second at 23-13 after winning 11 straight. Even if Mat-Su loses the rest of its games and the Oilers win out, the Miners own the season series at 6-4.

Mat-Su is just 1.5 games behind the 24-11 Anchorage Bucs in the battle for first place in the league. The Oilers travel to the second-place team for the playoffs.

The Pilots (13-24) and Chugiak-Eagle River Chinooks (10-25) are battling for the fourth spot in the playoffs.

Sunday’s game against the Pilots was 2-2 after the fourth inning. Then the Oilers scored one in the fifth, one in the sixth, one in the seventh and five in the eighth to take control.

Aaron Morris got the win for Peninsula, giving up two runs — one earned — in five innings while giving up five hits and two walks. He struck out three.

Emerson Fleck gave up an unearned run on two hits in four innings of relief. Fleck walked one and struck out two.

Edison Polanco, a recent high school graduate from Anchorage, went three innings for the Pilots, giving up two runs on four hits.

Colby Sturman, an incoming senior at Soldotna High School, worked the next three innings for the Pilots, giving up two runs on two hits and five walks.

Marcus Sanders yielded six runs on five hits in two innings.

Cody New was 3 for 6 with a run and two RBIs for the Oilers, while Zakary Farris was 2 for 3 with a run and two RBIs, and Cole Dawson was 2 for 3 with two runs and an RBI.

Aidan Sullivan added two hits for the Oilers, while Andrew Alva had a pair of RBIs.

Luke Heefner and Bo Rico each had two hits for the Pilots.

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