A couple of tight games and a couple of blowouts.  A big inning carries Culican and Los Mochis.

NAVOJOA 2, GUASAVE 1 IN GUASAVE

Navojoa:  Luis Fonseca was 1-for-4 with a two-run homer, his fifth.  Jose Chavez was 1-for-2 with two walks and a run.  Eddie Gamboa pitched six shutout innings, giving up two hits and one walk with five strikeouts.

Guasave:  Gabriel Gutierrez was 2-for-3 with a walk.  Jose Rodriguez was 1-for-4 with a home run, his sixth.  Marco Tovar struck out ten in six shutout innings, allowing two hits and four walks.

The game:  There was no score until the eighth, when Fonseca hit a two-run homer to give Navojoa a 2-0 lead.  Rodriguez homered in the bottom of the eighth to make it 2-1.  And that was it.  Guasave did get a man to first with two out in the ninth.

CULIACAN 5, MAZATLAN 4 IN MAZATLAN

Culiacan:  Ricardo Serrano was 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI.  Emmanuel Valdez was 1-for-4 with a double, scoring once and driving in two.  Andres Meza pitched seven innings, giving up two runs (one earned) on five hits and one walk with six strikeouts.

Mazatlan:  Henry Mateo was 3-for-5 with two triples and two RBIs.  Mike Wilson (Cincinnati) was 2-for-5 with a double and an RBI.  Oswaldo Morejon was 1-for-4 with a walk and a run.

The game:  Culiacan got all five runs in the first, getting an error, three singles, a two-run double by Valdez, and another single.  Mazatlan scored single runs in the third and fourth.  In the ninth, Mateo hit a two-run triple with one out, putting the tying run on third base, but he did not score.

OBREGON 5, HERMOSILLO 1 IN OBREGON

Hermosillo:  Heber Gomez was 1-for-3 with a run.  Edgar Gonzalez pitched six innings, giving up three runs on five hits and no walks.

Obregon:  Sergio Contreras (San Diego) was 3-for-4 with a double and a home run (his third), scoring twice and driving in two.  Dan Robertson was 2-for-3 with a run and an RBI.  David Reyes pitched 6.2 scoreless innings, allowing one hit and two walks with four strikeouts.

The game:  Agustin Murillo doubled to give Obregon a 1-0 lead in the first.  A sacrifice fly in the second made it 2-0 and an RBI single by Contreras in the sixth made it 3-0.  Hermosillo got its lone run in the top of the eighth, but in the bottom of the eighth Carlos Valencia and Contreras hit back-to-back homers to put the game out of reach.

LOS MOCHIS 8, MEXICALI 0 IN MEXICALI

Los Mochis:  Rodolfo Amador was 2-for-4 with a home run.  Gilberto Mejia was 2-for-5 with a run and two RBIs.  Tomas Solis pitched five shutout innings, giving up two hits and no walks with three strikeouts.

Mexicali:  Chris Roberson was 2-for-4 with a double.  Ricky Alvarez was 2-for-4.  Omar Espinoza struck out four in 3.1 innings, allowing one run on two hits and one walk.

The game:  It was scoreless until the fourth, when Los Mochis broke through with seven.  They had six singles in the inning, but also benefited from two walks, three errors, and a wild pitch.  Mejia had a two-run single in the inning.  Mexicali got a runner as far as third base in the seventh and the ninth.