EUGENE — The Everett AquaSox jumped out to a 7-0 lead after four innings but couldn’t hold on in a battle against the Eugene Emeralds in the opening game of a six-game series between the top two teams in High-A West.
Eugene (53-38) exploded for seven runs in the bottom of the fifth to the game. The Emeralds’ seven runs all came via extra-base hits, with run-scoring doubles by Marco Luciano, Ricardo Genoves and Jairo Pomares, a two-run double from Logan Wyatt and a two-run blast by Tyler Fitzgerald.
Dariel Gomez helped Everett reclaim the lead at 8-7 in the top of the eighth with a solo home run.
But Pomares drove in a run with a groundout, Genoves hit a sac fly and Carter Aldrete had an RBI single in the bottom of the eighth to give Eugene a 10-8 lead.
Connor Hoover kept Everett’s hopes alive with a two-out solo blast in the ninth inning, but Cade Marlowe followed with a strike out to end the game.
John Russell improved to 4-0 on the season after allowing three hits and one run with three strikeouts over two innings of relief.
Everett’s Nolan Hoffman fell to 0-1. He gave up three runs on four hits and two walks over two innings, striking out one along the way.
Fitzgerald, Pomares, Wyatt and Genoves each drove in two runs for Eugene. Pomares had three hits.
Hoover went 3-for-5 with two home runs and three RBI and Marlowe drove in three runs.
Everett starter Taylor Dollard went four scoreless innings before being charged with all seven runs that came across in the fifth.
The AquaSox (54-35) jumped out to an early lead when Marlowe blasted a three-run home run to center field in the top of the first inning. Tyler Kennan added an RBI double to make it 4-0.
Keenan drove in another run in the third with a sac fly, and Hoover hit a solo home run in the fourth.
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