Ickes, Pivetta, Shaw highlight busy week for Island baseball players

NightOwls take three-game set against HarbourCats

It has been a dizzying week of news for Island baseball and the West Coast League, highlighted by the Nanaimo NightOwls taking the three-game WCL set 2-1 against the previously torrid Victoria HarbourCats .

The NightOwls were in Wenatchee, Washington, on Friday night to begin a key three-game series against the AppleSox . The HarbourCats have a bye weekend in the WCL and are playing the Coquitlam Angels, a top men’s senior-amateur team, in a three-game exhibition series that began Friday night and continues today and Sunday at Wilson’s Group Stadium at Royal Athletic Park.

Only five pitchers in the modern era have matched or surpassed that, including Randy Johnson with 16 in 2001, Walter Johnson with 15 in 1913, Rube Marquard with 14 in 1911, Denny McLain with 14 in 1965 and Billy O’Dell with 13 in 1961. Pivetta is the only one on that heady list who did not allow a hit.

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