Hawks end losing streak with 8-5 win over Salem-Keizer

BOISE, Idaho - Reggie Golden capped a five-run seventh inning with a three-run double, helping the Boise Hawks end a four-game losing streak with an 8-5 victory over the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes at Memorial Stadium.

Deadlocked at 3-3 in the seventh, the Hawks greeted reliever Brian Maloney with singles from Dustin Harrington and Wes Darvill, moving them to scoring position on a wild pitch. With one out, Zeke DeVoss walked, but a wild pitch on ball four allowed Harrington to score the go-ahead run. A two-out Rafael Lopez RBI single extended the lead to 5-3, with Golden, following a Paul Hoilman hit by pitch, roped a ball into the left-center gap to break the game open.

Boise would need the runs, as the Volcanoes cut the lead to 8-5 in the ninth on a Danny Brock RBI single and loaded the bases with one out. Closer Bryce Shafer would strike out Garrett Buechele and get Chuckie Jones to fly out to the warning track to end the contest.

The Hawks scored three unearned runs in the second, keyed by a two-run DeVoss single, to make it 3-0. S-K would draw even with unearned runs scored in the fourth and fifth and tie the game at 3-3 in the seventh on a Joe Panik sacrifice fly.

Dustin Fitzgerald tossed two innings of one-hit relief to pick up his second win of the year, while Maloney allowed three runs in one-third of an inning to take the loss for the Volcanoes.

Eight different Hawks had one hit in the victory, their third at home in four games, while Jesus Galindo went 3-for-5 with two doubles, with Panik and Buechele each logging two hits in the loss for the Volcanoes, who stranded 12.

Game 2 of the series is tomorrow night, with the Hawks sending Yao-Lin Wang to the mound, opposite Lorenzo Mendoza, at 7:15 p.m.

NOTES - Prior to the game, Boise sent RHP Jin-Young Kim to the Mesa Cubs...