WALLA WALLA, WA- After an incredible week Walla Walla Sweets Outfielder Ben Parker has been named The West Coast League’s Moss Adams Player of the Week as announced by Commissioner Rob Neyer.

Last week, Parker went 13 for 21 in five games while scoring eight runs for the Sweets. He has been the Sweets’ top hitter this summer, with a .394 batting average,  which ranks 2nd in the WCL this season. With Walla Walla, Parker has appeared in 26 of the 30 games leading the team in home runs, RBIs, AVG, and SLG. On top of the .619 avg this week Parker also had hits in all five games played and only had one game without multiple hits.

The WCL Player of the Week honor adds on to the extensive resume for Parker, who was named to the ABCA’s All-America Second Team and earned fourth-team D3baseball.com All-America honors for Whitman College after hitting .378 with 15 home runs. The grad transfer is set to continue his college career next season with William & Mary.

 Up Next

Sweets travel off to Portland on 7/11/23 at 7:05 P.M

YAKIMA, WA- The Walla Walla Sweets took the series finale with the Yakima Valley Pippins as the Sweets rallied for seven runs in the ninth inning winning game three 11-10. With the win, the Sweets move to 17-31 and 7-14 in the second half. 

Walla Walla trailed through nearly the entirety of the ball game as the Pippins struck first as Jace Phelan drove in the game’s first run in the first inning, giving the Pippins a 1-0 lead after one. Yakima followed up the strong first inning with an even better bottom of the second going up 4-0 after the first two frames. 

Walla Walla did find an answer however at the top of the third. Cayden Wotipka helped score Andrew Graham thanks to a fielding error from Yakima shortstop Josh Hankins. Following the run being scored, Aidan Espinoza cut the lead to only one as he soared a two-run homer to right making it a 4-3 ball game midway through the third. 

However, the Pippins offense came alive again adding three runs in the bottom of the third and fourth innings.

Walla Walla went scoreless until the top of the ninth where the Sweets showed a pulse starting with a Pu’ukani De Sa RBI double to get the Sweets back on the board. Mason Millar backed it up with an RBI ground out to make it a 10-6 game in the ninth but put two outs on the board. The Sweets needed to rally and did just that as Vicente Feliciano drove in a pair of runs to cut the lead to one. Feliciano came in to score moments later as Cayden Wotipka was walked with the bases loaded and the Sweets and Pippins were suddenly tied in the final frame.

With the bases still loaded Aidan Espinoza got it done again driving in Kennedy Hara on a base hit up the middle, to give the Sweets an 11-10 lead in the ninth which the Sweets held onto taking the final game of the Battle of the Basin.

Sweets by the Numbers

• Vicente Feliciano has hits in six of seven 

• Aidan Espinoza continued his hit streak moving it to eight straight with a hit.

• Espinoza hit his first Sweets homerun

• Landon Webb got the win going 5 scoreless innings in relief 

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The Sweets travel to Ridgefield to square off with the Raptors on 8/2/23 at 6:35 PM

ROWAN RADIO 89.7 WGLS-FM SET TO BROADCAST ROWAN BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL

GLASSBORO-  After almost a year without baseball and softball due to the global pandemic, Rowan Radio 89.7 WGLS-FM is back in action and is set to broadcast all home games for Rowan University baseball and softball during their respective 2021 spring seasons. The broadcast schedule kicks off on Tuesday, March 16th as Rowan University Profs Softball takes on Muhlenberg College in a doubleheader starting off first at 2:00PM. 

Rowan Radio Sports Director Gary Erdelyi and Kayla Santiago will be on the call opening day as the Profs take on the Mules.

Erdelyi will handle play-by-play for the first contest with Santiago on Color and roles will be switched for the second game of the double header. Santiago recently worked as a Play by Play broadcaster for the Delaware Blue Coats, and is returning for another season covering the Profs. Erdelyi is entering his third season covering Prof Sports. The duo covered Rowan’s 2019 softball season together and were on the call for the Profs NJAC second round win over Kean. 

Profs Baseball is scheduled to start their season on March 17th against Cabrini with first pitch scheduled for 3:30PM.

Scheduling and broadcast details are subject to change based on weather, impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. No spectators are permitted at any events per Rowan University and NJAC policy.

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