The Walla Walla Sweets (20-27) beat the Cowlitz Black Bears (23-25) 5-1 on Wednesday at Borleske Stadium behind Alex Bonczyk, who collected three hits.
He singled in the third inning and tripled in the seventh inning.Tyler Billen put together a nice outing. The Cowlitz Black Bears managed just two hits off of Billen, who allowed no earned runs, walked one and struck out four during his 2 2/3 innings of work.
Mikey Murray (3-4) took the loss for the Cowlitz Black Bears. He lasted just 4 2/3 innings, walked three, struck out four, and allowed three runs.