Hawks Continue Skid With Morning Loss to Cats
2026-06-10
Riverhawks mount come back but fall short on School Spirit and Mascot Mania Day.
Box ScoreBy Larry Read
EDMONTON, AB—Lots of excited children at REMAX Field on Wednesday (June 10). The Edmonton Riverhawks hosted their annual ‘School Spirit and Mascot Mania” game when they hosted the Victoria HarbourCats in West Coast League action.
Sadly, the 8,503 Edmonton area elementary school students, their teachers, support staff and parents couldn’t spur the home team onto victory. The Riverhawks dropped a 8-5 decision to the HarbourCats in game two of their three game series. Victoria has won the first two games between the teams this week as they move to 5-6 on the season. The Riverhawks drop to 3-7.
Both teams got the crowd excited in the top of the first inning. Victoria’s #11 Brady Hewitt reached first on a passed ball. With two outs, Hewitt tried to steal home when the ball left the hand of Riverhawks catcher #29 AJ Marchetti. Marchetti was able to shovel the ball forward to charging Edmonton starter #50 Lucas Webber-Kitching. The Riverhawks pitcher was able to make the tag at the plate to end the inning.
In the second inning, the crowd were on their feet when #33 Marcus Nolen got caught in a rundown trying to come home from third base. He was thrown out in a pitcher-to third base-to catcher-to shortstop-to first baseman to shortstop series. That brought up #40 Lucas Le Gras who stroked the ball up the middle to score #15 Tristan Buehring and # 9 Dryden Fuoco to give Victoria a 2-0 lead.
Things began to unravel for the Riverhawks in the fifth inning. Victoria scored three more runs as they loaded the bases and took advantage of some less than spectacular fielding by the Riverhawks. That resulted in #12 Riley Starko being pulled with two out and the score 6-0 HarbourCats . He was the losing pitcher in the contest going an inning and two thirds, giving up four runs on three hits, had two walks and struck out one.
Edmonton fans got something to cheer about runs wise in the bottom of that fifth inning. Designated hitter # 37 Connor Cavnar led the inning off with a single off HarbourCats reliever #24 Houston Tomlinson and scored on #3 Devin Simonton’s ground out.
And there was more in the sixth inning: #1 Shiryu Sato led off the inning by doubling down the left field line. He scored two batters later when #51 Easton Andrews placed the ball between first and second base and wound up with an RBI single to cut the deficit to four—it was 6-2.
After a 38 minute rain delay, Victoria added to their lead in the top of the seventh inning. Nolen walked and scored on a wild pitch delivered by Riverhawks newcomer #41 Trey Nance. #26 Declan Brown reached base on a fielders choice and then scored on an RBI double off the bat of Hewitt
In their half of the seventh, the Riverhawks loaded the bases off reliever #52 Asher Clark. .#2 Drew Veatch hit a ball ‘with eyes’ which dropped into the gap between first, second and right field to plate #31 Kotaro Wakui. The next batter was #10 Cole Kreisel who delivered an RBI single scoring Simonton to make the count 8-4. That did it for Asher Clark who was replaced by HarbourCat teammate #13 Jack Clark. He facted Sato as his first batter. He hit into a double play but was able to get Marchetti across to make the score 8-5 Victoria.
Offensively: Buehring was 3 for 4 with a run scored and an RBI for Victoria. Shepard was 3 for 5 with a run scored. Fuoco went 2 for 5 with two runs scored while Le Gras was 1 for 4 with two runs batted in.
Edmonton was led by Sato and Andrews who were both 2 for 4. Sato had a run scored while Andrews had 1 RBI. Veatch was 1 for 4 with an RBI. Kriesel was 1 for 5 with an RBI.
Tomlinson picked up his first win of the season on the mound in relief for Victoria. He went two innings, giving up three hits, two runs and walked one. Jack Clark earned the save as he faced nine batters through three innings and gave up a hit.
The teams will conclude their series Thursday (June 11) with a 7:05 PM MDT opening pitch. Thursday’s (June 11) contest-the final one of the series-has been deemed: “Theatre Kids Are Taking Over”. Any youth wearing a theatre character costume will get in free if they present themselves at the Riverhawks box office! Youth must be accompanied by a paying adult. Complimentary tickets are subject to availability and will be provided in Silver, Bronze or Bleacher seating. It is also the ‘Thirsty Thursday Promotion.”
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Can’t make it to the game? You can watch it free on West Coast League TV: https://wcleague.watch.pixellot.tv/.