The Pleasant Hill Billies survived a big Siuslaw Vikings rally Friday to complete the sweep of a nonleague baseball doubleheader at Dodson Stadium, 12-9 and 6-5.

The Vikings (5-3) can bounce back in a big way Tuesday when they host 4A No. 1-ranked Hidden Valley at 4 p.m.

The unbeaten Mustangs (8-0) will attempt to break the 4A win-streak record. Hidden Valley has won its past 26 games, including 18-0 last spring to win the state title.

Pleasant Hill leveled its record at 5-5 with the two wins.

Siuslaw trailed 6-1 entering the bottom of the fifth inning, which would be the last played, scoring four runs to come up short.

"The bottom of the fifth inning was pretty exciting to be part of," Siuslaw coach Tom Shinn said. "We strung together some solid swings, with some aggressve baserunning, and just came up a bit short.

"I am happy about the way the team fought back at the end of the game. Unfortunately, the first game took quite some time to finish, and left us on the short end of daylight for the second game."

Rhett Edmunds went the distance for the Billies for the win, striking out eight.

Siuslaw fell behind 8-1 in the opener, then rallied for four runs in the bottom of the fourth inning to cut the lead to three, 8-5. The teams traded 3-run fifth-inning rallies, the Billies adding a run in the sixth and the Vikings a run in the bottom of the seventh.

The Vikings outhit the Billies 11-6 in the first game, with Beau Erickson 3-for-3 with a 3 runs, an RBI, a double and 3 stolen bases; Ethan Halpin 2-for-5 with a run and 4 RBIs, and Jason Garcia 2-for-3 with an RBI and 2 stolen bases.

"I am proud of the way we hit the ball today," Shinn said. "Nine runs on 11 hits shows that our approach at the plate is working.

"Beau had a really strong day at the bat — he really was on fire. It is great to get him on base and have him run around a bit.

"Ethan Halpin had a strong showing. He has had some very timely hitting for us."

Siuslaw committed five errors in the game and three Vikings pitchers combined to walk 13 batters.

First game
PLEASANT HILL   003 531 0 — 12  6  5
SIUSLAW              100 430 1 —  9 11  5
Alejondro Ziolokowski, Brasen Holliday (5) and Mason Hylemon; Beau Erickson, Isaac Garza (4), Joel Sissel (6) and Henry Rankin. WP — Brasen Holidayi. LP — Beau Erickson. 

Second game
PLEASANT HILL   301 20 — 6  9  2
SIUSLAW              100 04 — 5  3  1
Rhett Edmunds and Hunter Allen; Jason Garcia, Ethan Halpin (4) and Henry Rankin, Jason Garcia (4). WP — Rhett Edmunds. LP — Jason Garcia.

SIUSLAW SCHEDULE
Record: 5-3 overall, 0-0 Sky-Em League
March 15 — Siuslaw 7, at Sutherlin 1, 1st game
March 15 — Siuslaw 7, at Sutherlin 5, 2nd game
March 18 — at Mazama 9, Siuslaw 2, at Klamath Falls
March 19 — Siuslaw 13, at Klamath Union 3, 5 innings, 1st game
March 19 — Siuslaw 22, at Klamath Union 0, 3 innings, 2nd game
March 25 — at Siuslaw 9, Coquille 2
April 1 — Pleasant Hill 12, at Siuslaw 9, 1st game
April 1 — Pleasant Hill 6, at Siuslaw 5, 2nd game, 5 innings, darkness
Tuesday, April 5 — Hidden Valley, 4 p.m.
Thursday, April 7 — Creswell, 5 p.m.
Tuesday, April 12 — at Marist, 5 p.m.
Friday, April 15 — Junction City (DH), 3 p.m.
Tuesday, April 19 — Cottage Grove, 5 p.m.
Friday, April 22 — at Elmira (DH), 3 p.m.
Tuesday, April 26 — at Marshfield, 5 p.m.
Friday, April 29 — Marist (DH), 3 p.m.
Tuesday, May 3 — at Junction City, 5 p.m.
Friday, May 6 — at Cottage Grove (DH), 3 p.m.
Tuesday, May 10 — Elmira, 5 p.m.
Friday, May 13 — Marshfield (DH), 3 p.m.

VARSITY ROSTER
  2 Isaac Garza, senior, RHP/2B
  3 Noah Dotson, junior, OF/RHP
  4 Beau Erickson, senior, SS/RHP
  5 Victor Ayala, junior, U/OF
  8 Ethan Aaron, senior, OF/RHP
  9 Ethan Halpin, senior, RHP/1B
10 Henry Rankin, senior, C/1B
12 Ian Sissel, junior, OF/C
13 Jason Garcia, senior, RHP/U
14 Joel Sissel, freshman, OF/RHP
15 Jacob Welton, junior, RHP/OF
21 Andrew Jensen-Norman, sophomore, RHP, 1B
22 Max Reynolds, freshman, U
34 Armando Galvam-Mendez, sophomore, 3B
Coach: Tom Shinn
Assistant: Dan Rankin

JV ROSTER
Billy Massey, sophomore, RHP
Michael Felkins, freshman, RHP/OF
Eaden Mead, sophomore, RHP/2B
Dayne Muller, sophomore, RHP/C
Jacob Dunn, sophomore, 1B
Sylas Gorder, freshman, 1B
Max Reynolds, freshman, SS/RHP
Peyton Sandusky, sophomore, OF/RHP
Kai Diocson, sophomore, OF/RHP
Mathias Wilson, sophomore, LHP/OF
Tate Bottensek, sophomore, LHP/OF
Leonardo Robertson, freshman, OF
Damian Cano, sophomore, RHP/C
Coach: Jim Baxter