SAN RAFAEL, Calif. - Steve Boggs singled in a run in the bottom of the eighth inning, and the San Rafael Pacifics beat Na Koa Ikaika Maui 7-6 on Saturday in the opening game of their best-of-three series for the North American League's North Division championship.
Darrick Hale was 3-for-4 with a double and drove in three runs for San Rafael (33-25), which overcame four errors.
Baldwin High School graduate Gered Mochizuki hit a two-run double for Maui (35-29), which squandered leads of 4-3 and 6-4. Kalaika Kahoohalahala, a Maui High graduate, was 2-for-5 and scored a pair of runs.
Matthew Stabelfeld (3-3) pitched a perfect eighth inning for the win, and Julian Arballo, the fifth pitcher used by the Pacifics, struck out two batters in a perfect ninth for his third save.
Yoshihiro Doi (1-1) was the losing pitcher.
The series, which had originally been scheduled as regular-season games, will continue today.
| Maui | 000 | 220 | 200—6 | 8 | 0 |
| San Rafael | 003 | 010 | 21x—7 | 11 | 4 |
Chad Blackwell, Yoshihiro Doi (8), Mike Koons (8) and Nick Valdez. Jake Rasner, Andrew Pevsner (6), Tyler Graham (7), Matthew Stabelfeld (8), Julian Arballo (9) and Matthew Alton. W-Stablefeld 3-3. L-Doi 1-1. Sv-Arballo (3). 2B-Maui, Gered Mochizuki (9). San Rafael, Darrick Hale (8), Alton (8).
Leading hitters-San Rafael, Hale 3-4, run, 2 RBI; Steve Boggs 2-4, 2 RBI, Alton 2-4, 2 runs. Maui, Kalaika Kahoohalahala 2-5, 2 runs, Valdez 2-4, RBI; Mochizuki, 1-3, 2 RBI.
