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YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC

EVERETT -- The Yakima Bears got off to a strong start in an effort to get back in the win column, Everett's Travis Howell had other ideas.

The Everett catcher had three doubles that drove in four runs to help rally the AquaSox to a 6-2 victory over Yakima on Saturday night at Everett Memorial Stadium.

Yakima (8-11) has now lost two of the first three games of this five-game series that resumes at 1 p.m. this afternoon.

Things started well for the Bears, as they jumped to a 2-0 lead on Collin Cowgill's RBI single in the third inning, and Ryan Babineau's solo homer, his first of the season, in the fourth.

But Everett got one back in the bottom of the fourth on Howell's first double, which scored Dennis Raben with the first off his three runs on the night. Then in the fifth, Howell gave the AquaSox the lead for good when his two-out double scored Nate Tenbrink and Raben.

After Everett added an insurance run in the sixth, Howell helped put the exclamation point on the victory with his third double that scored Luis Nunez, with the AquaSox adding another run in the frame on a squeeze bunt.

Howell wasn't the only Everett player producing doubles as Raben collected two, and the home team finished with six two-baggers in all -- more than half of the team's 11 hits.

Yakima had just seven hits, with three players -- Cowgill, Babineau and Ramon Castillo -- collecting two apiece.