White Sands Holds Off Alpine 10-7

June 20 2019 The White Sands Pupfish defeated the Alpine Cowboys 10-7 at Kokernot Field. White Sands collected 14 hits and scored three times in the first inning, added a run in the third, five in the seventh and one in the eighth. Alpine finished with 15 hits but committed three errors.

Tevin Brown led White Sands with three hits and three runs. Satoshi Miyata drove in three runs, while Taylor Bigford and T. Muroi each contributed two RBI. White Sands’ seventh-inning surge turned a 5-4 game into a 9-4 lead, and the Pupfish added another run in the eighth.

Alpine’s Lance Myers went 4-for-4 with an RBI, and Rodney Tennie had three hits, including a double and a triple, while scoring twice. Ely Gallego added two hits, two RBI and two walks. Will Little hit a solo home run in the ninth, but Alpine’s two-run final inning was not enough to overcome the deficit.

Jeffrey Rotz earned the win after allowing 11 hits and five earned runs in 7.2 innings. He walked four and struck out five. Jordan Young worked the final 1.1 innings for White Sands. Aaron Marquez allowed four runs, three earned, on eight hits over six innings for Alpine, while Garrett Mack was charged with the loss after allowing three runs on two hits without recording an out.