White Sands Pupfish Beat Alpine Cowboys 4-1

June 2 2016 The White Sands Pupfish defeated the Alpine Cowboys 4-1 at Griggs Park. White Sands scored twice in the first inning, added another run in the third and finished its scoring with a run in the sixth. Alpine’s lone run came in the sixth. Both teams collected seven hits, while Alpine committed three errors and White Sands made one.

TJ Wharton led the Pupfish offense with three hits in four at-bats and one RBI. Mark Davis scored twice, had one hit and drove in a run, while Eric Kalbfliesh and Gareth Graves also contributed RBI. White Sands’ other hit came from V. Gomez, who doubled. Alpine received two hits each from Ariel Adut and Seth McLemore, with Eric Ferguson adding a hit and scoring the team’s only run. No home runs were recorded.

Anthony Pastrana earned the win after holding Alpine scoreless on four hits over five innings, striking out seven and walking four. A. Garcia allowed one unearned run in two innings, and Cameron Powers worked the final two innings for the save. Jake Heissler took the loss for Alpine after allowing four runs, two earned, on six hits in six innings, with four strikeouts and no walks.