EVERETT — The Everett AquaSox knocked off the visiting Hillsboro Hops 7-3 before 1,525 fans Monday in the final contest of a five-game series.
The Northwest League second-half North Division-leading AquaSox (7-4 second half, 25-24 overall) had lost three of the first four games to the Hops (7-4, 26-23), the second-half South Division leader.
Johmbeyker Morales finished 3-for-3 with two RBI and a run scored to pace the offense. Morales drove in Eric Filia with a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the fifth to give Everett a 4-3 lead it didn’t relinquish.
Morales added another RBI single as part of a two-run seventh inning and the Frogs scored once more in the eighth to extend the lead.
Jeffeson Medina (1-0) earned the win with three scoreless innings of relief in which he struck out four.
Medina entered in relief of Robert Dugger, who allowed three hits and three runs — two earned — while walking two and fanning three in his first professional start.
Michael Koval worked the final two innings and fanned three to pick up his second save.
Austin Grebeck tied the game at 3-3 in the bottom of the fourth when he served a broken-bat soft liner into left field to score Morales and Joe Venturino.
Jason Morozowski’s three-run home run in the top of the third against Dugger had given Hillsboro a 3-1 lead. But those proved the only runs the Hops mustered on the evening.
Dimas Ojeda, who was moved up to fifth in the AquaSox batting order, blasted his fourth home run and second in as many days with one out in the second to give Everett a 1-0 lead.
Filia had two hits and walked twice while driving in two runs. Grebeck also finished with two hits and drove in a pair.
Morozowski had three of Hillsboro’s six hits, and Jose Queliz added two hits.
Everett begins a three-game series Tuesday at Vancouver. Brandon Miller (1-2, 3.48 ERA) will start for the AquaSox against a yet-to-be-determined Canadians hurler.
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